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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Arkansas, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Arkansas costs on average $4,000, typically $2,400-$6,400 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $145 to $275 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 6-12 months to resolve.
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $650 | $1,350 | $2,000 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,400 | $4,000 | $6,400 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $6,250 | $8,600 | $11,700 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$145 – $275/ hour
Median: $200/hr
6-12 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Immigration legal costs form around two separate line items that are easy to conflate: the attorney's fee for their work, and USCIS (or other federal agency) filing fees, which are set nationally and apply no matter which attorney — or no attorney — handles the case. A straightforward family-based petition with no complicating history is the lowest-cost scenario and is often billed as a flat fee. Employment-based petitions, waivers, or removal defense involve substantially more attorney hours preparing evidence and responding to government requests, which is reflected in the moderate and complex figures on this page.
Because filing fees are federal and state-independent, cost differences between states for immigration matters come almost entirely from local attorney market rates rather than from any difference in the underlying legal process. Cases that draw a Request for Evidence, involve a prior denial, or require appearing before an immigration judge add attorney hours (and sometimes additional filing fees) well beyond the base petition cost.
Take a moderate-complexity immigration matter in Arkansas. The recorded median total is $4,000, with reported quotes clustering between $2,400 and $6,400. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $1,260–$2,925 of the Arkansas median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. 2 further recorded fees are not itemised above and are not in that total.
At $4,000, the median immigration cost in Arkansas runs 19% below the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Arkansas carries 3 rows — simple, $650–$2,000 at $110–$220/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,400–$6,400 at $145–$275/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $6,250–$11,700 at $185–$330/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.
$4,000 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,600 above the $2,400 floor, $2,400 under the $6,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Sorted by median cost, Arkansas is 40th of 49 for a immigration, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $750 and 16% below the $4,750 midpoint, with 9 states recording a lower median still.
Nebraska ($4,050) and South Carolina ($4,000) bracket Arkansas inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 40th is close to arbitrary.
5 tracked states — Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota among them — record a median within three percent of Arkansas's $4,000. The figure sits in the densest part of the immigration distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Hourly rate does not explain this state's position. At $200 an hour Arkansas is only 48th of 49 on rate, yet 40th on total immigration cost — the totals reflect billed hours accumulating, not an unusually high rate.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Arkansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | North Dakota | $4,350 | +$350 |
| 35 | North Carolina | $4,300 | +$300 |
| 36 | Indiana | $4,150 | +$150 |
| 37 | Iowa | $4,150 | +$150 |
| 38 | Mississippi | $4,050 | +$50 |
| 39 | Nebraska | $4,050 | +$50 |
| 40 | Arkansas | $4,000 | — |
| 41 | South Carolina | $4,000 | −$0 |
| 42 | South Dakota | $3,950 | −$50 |
| 43 | West Virginia | $3,950 | −$50 |
| 44 | Kansas | $3,800 | −$200 |
| 45 | New Mexico | $3,650 | −$350 |
| 46 | Louisiana | $3,600 | −$400 |
Within ten percent of the Arkansas figure there are 11 states above and only 5 below. $50 up or $0 down moves Arkansas a row, which means the ranking has far more room to improve than to slip: the immigration field is dense overhead and sparse underneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska and adding $300 to the $4,000 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Kansas, New Mexico: $350.
$3,150 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $650 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $200 an hour, the $4,000 median represents about 20 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours, so 2 more hours of work sit behind the Arkansas figure than behind the typical state's.
Arkansas records a 6.4x gap between its simple and complex immigration medians. Decomposed, that is 4.3x more billed time and 1.55x a higher rate: 8 hours at $165 becomes 34 hours at $255.
The Arkansas moderate band spans $2,400 to $6,400 — $4,000 — which is $750 narrower than the peer-median band of $4,750, so quoted immigration figures cluster more tightly here than in most tracked states. End to end that is 20 hours at $200.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $4,000 median is roughly $444 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Arkansas is 1st of 49 at 20 hours, 39 places above its cost rank of 40th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
59% up the $2,400–$6,400 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 24 hours at $200 against the 20 the local immigration median implies — 4 hours apart.
| Measure | Arkansas | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,000 | 40th |
| Hourly median | $200 | 48th |
| Implied hours | 20 | 1st |
| Simple median | $1,350 | 48th |
| Complex median | $8,600 | 45th |
$200 an hour puts Arkansas between Alabama ($200) and Kentucky ($200) — not the immigration cost pairing.
Alabama, Kentucky record the same $200: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$4,000 buys 24 hours at $165, 20 at $200, 16 at $255.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | Oklahoma | $205 |
| 47 | Alabama | $200 |
| 48 | Arkansas | $200 |
| 49 | Kentucky | $200 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 48th at the simple tier, 40th at moderate, 45th at complex of 49 — so Arkansas keeps roughly the same relative position whether the immigration is straightforward or contested.
$1,350 is 48th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under South Dakota ($1,450) and over Oklahoma ($1,350), $550 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$8,600 is 45th of 49 once contested, between North Carolina ($8,750) and South Carolina ($8,250), $2,150 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
$400 separates the simple ceiling of $2,000 from the moderate floor of $2,400, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $6,250 upward. The expensive end of a routine immigration and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Arkansas.
| Tier | Arkansas | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,350 | 48th | $1,900 | 8 |
| moderate | $4,000 | 40th | $4,750 | 20 |
| complex | $8,600 | 45th | $10,750 | 34 |
$1,350 drops Arkansas to 48th of 49 on straightforward matters, 8 below its moderate position and $550 (29%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $165: 40% of the moderate tier's 20, over 3-6 months.
South Dakota ($1,450) and Oklahoma ($1,350) bracket it — a $100 window.
1 states sit within three percent of the $1,350 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
$8,600 drops Arkansas to 45th of 49 on contested matters, 5 below its moderate position and $2,150 (20%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
34 implied hours at $255: 170% of the moderate tier's 20, over 12-24+ months.
North Carolina ($8,750) and South Carolina ($8,250) bracket it — a $500 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $8,600 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | Kentucky | $1,450 |
| 47 | South Dakota | $1,450 |
| 48 | Arkansas | $1,350 |
| 49 | Oklahoma | $1,350 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 43 | Alabama | $8,800 |
| 44 | North Carolina | $8,750 |
| 45 | Arkansas | $8,600 |
| 46 | South Carolina | $8,250 |
| 47 | South Dakota | $8,100 |
In Arkansas a immigration is 4th of 8 at $4,000, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 55% of Criminal Defense ($7,250).
The state does not rank uniformly. Arkansas is 28th of 49 for Personal Injury but 49th for Divorce, a 21-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 40th on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.
Arkansas is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 16% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 33% below its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Arkansas is 5.2x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 8 matter types rank Arkansas in the upper third, 7 in the lower, 1 between; immigration is 40th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 19th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $2,650 | $7,250 | $21,300 | 33 | 48th | −29% | South Dakota |
| Divorce | $2,150 | $6,450 | $17,550 | 29 | 49th | −25% | Kansas |
| DUI / DWI | $2,500 | $5,600 | $11,600 | 28 | 48th | −25% | Louisiana |
| Immigration | $1,350 | $4,000 | $8,600 | 20 | 40th | −16% | Nebraska |
| Personal Injury | $1,200 | $3,500 | $10,050 | — | 28th | −33% | Alabama |
| Bankruptcy | $1,150 | $2,400 | $3,450 | 13 | 46th | −33% | Alabama |
| Real Estate Closing | $700 | $1,500 | $3,050 | 8 | 44th | −33% | Oklahoma |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $450 | $1,400 | $4,350 | 7 | 45th | −33% | South Carolina |
Simple tier. $1,350 ÷ $165 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $300 a month. The $2,650 step to the moderate tier is 12 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,000 to $8,600 is a $4,600 step, mostly work: 14 more hours at $200 is $2,800, while moving to $255 across 34 hours adds $1,870. Work carries 60%.
Borrowing the wrong row. South Carolina ($4,000) is $0 light, Nebraska ($4,050) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $750, 15x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $2,400 is 12 hours at $200; $6,400 is 32. Over the 6-12 months recorded for a moderate immigration, that is 1 to 4 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Arkansas's own recorded figures, $8,600 buys 6.4 matters at the $1,350 simple median — or, counted in time, 34 implied hours against 8, a factor of 4.3 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Arkansascourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.