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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Florida, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Florida costs on average $4,350, typically $2,600-$7,000 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $190 to $360 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 | $900 | $1,850 | $2,800 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,600 | $4,350 | $7,000 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $8,250 | $11,350 | $15,500 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$190 – $360/ hour
Median: $265/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 Florida. The recorded median total is $4,350, with reported quotes clustering between $2,600 and $7,000. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $1,610–$3,275 of the Florida 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 $4,350, the median immigration cost in Florida runs 12% below the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Florida carries 3 rows — simple, $900–$2,800 at $145–$290/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,600–$7,000 at $190–$360/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $8,250–$15,500 at $240–$430/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$4,350 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,750 above the $2,600 floor, $2,650 under the $7,000 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Florida occupies the 33rd row of 49 for a immigration. Its $4,350 median trails the $4,750 table midpoint by $400, which is 8% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Wyoming ($4,400) and North Dakota ($4,350) bracket Florida inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 33rd is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Idaho, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio among them — record a median within three percent of Florida's $4,350. The figure sits in the densest part of the immigration distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
The two rankings disagree sharply. Florida attorneys sit 26th of 49 on hourly rate at $265 an hour, but the state is only 33rd on total immigration cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Montana | $4,500 | +$150 |
| 28 | Idaho | $4,450 | +$100 |
| 29 | Georgia | $4,400 | +$50 |
| 30 | Missouri | $4,400 | +$50 |
| 31 | Ohio | $4,400 | +$50 |
| 32 | Wyoming | $4,400 | +$50 |
| 33 | Florida | $4,350 | — |
| 34 | North Dakota | $4,350 | −$0 |
| 35 | North Carolina | $4,300 | −$50 |
| 36 | Indiana | $4,150 | −$200 |
| 37 | Iowa | $4,150 | −$200 |
| 38 | Mississippi | $4,050 | −$300 |
| 39 | Nebraska | $4,050 | −$300 |
The 33rd position is not a stable fact about Florida: $50 up or $0 down moves Florida a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 18 rows, 9 above and 9 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Idaho, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Wyoming and adding $100 to the $4,350 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under North Dakota, North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi: $300.
$2,800 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,000 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $265 an hour, the $4,350 median represents about 16 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours: Florida reaches its total in 2 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 6.1x a simple one in Florida, but the implied workload only rises 3.8x — 9 hours at $215 becomes 34 hours at $335 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.56x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,600 to $7,000 the moderate band is $4,400 wide, close to the $4,750 peer median. End to end that is 17 hours at $265.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $4,350 median is roughly $483 a month of elapsed time.
By implied hours Florida falls to 49th of 49 at 16 hours, 16 places below its 33rd on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.
49% up the $2,600–$7,000 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 18 hours at $265 against the 16 the local immigration median implies — 2 hours apart.
| Measure | Florida | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,350 | 33rd |
| Hourly median | $265 | 26th |
| Implied hours | 16 | 49th |
| Simple median | $1,850 | 27th |
| Complex median | $11,350 | 19th |
$265 an hour puts Florida between Michigan ($270) and Georgia ($260) — not the immigration cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $265 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Florida on its own within this dataset.
$4,350 buys 20 hours at $215, 16 at $265, 13 at $335.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Maine | $270 |
| 25 | Michigan | $270 |
| 26 | Florida | $265 |
| 27 | Georgia | $260 |
| 28 | Ohio | $255 |
Florida moves up the table as complexity rises: 27th at the simple tier, 33rd at moderate, 19th at complex, a 8-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$1,850 is 27th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Wyoming ($1,900) and over Ohio ($1,850), $50 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$11,350 is 19th of 49 once contested, between Arizona ($11,350) and Georgia ($11,350), $600 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $2,800 against a moderate floor of $2,600 — but there is a clear gap of $1,250 between the moderate ceiling of $7,000 and the complex floor of $8,250. In Florida the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Florida | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,850 | 27th | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $4,350 | 33rd | $4,750 | 16 |
| complex | $11,350 | 19th | $10,750 | 34 |
$1,850 puts Florida 27th of 49 on straightforward matters, 6 up on its moderate position, and $50 (3%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $215: 56% of the moderate tier's 16, over 3-6 months.
Wyoming ($1,900) and Ohio ($1,850) bracket it — a $50 window.
8 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $1,850, denser than the 7 around the moderate row.
$11,350 puts Florida 19th of 49 on contested matters, 14 up on its moderate position, and $600 (6%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.
34 implied hours at $335: 213% of the moderate tier's 16, over 12-24+ months.
Arizona ($11,350) and Georgia ($11,350) bracket it — a $0 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $11,350 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Texas | $1,900 |
| 26 | Wyoming | $1,900 |
| 27 | Florida | $1,850 |
| 28 | Ohio | $1,850 |
| 29 | Iowa | $1,800 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Vermont | $11,600 |
| 18 | Arizona | $11,350 |
| 19 | Florida | $11,350 |
| 20 | Georgia | $11,350 |
| 21 | Minnesota | $11,050 |
In Florida a immigration is 5th of 8 at $4,350, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 47% of Criminal Defense ($9,200).
Florida is consistent across practice areas: over the matter types tracked here its rank only moves between 29th (DUI / DWI) and 33rd (Immigration), so its 33rd on immigration reflects a general price level rather than something specific to this matter.
The premium Florida carries is close to uniform across practice areas: DUI / DWI runs 4% below its own midpoint and Real Estate Closing runs 12% below its own midpoint, only 8 percentage points apart. Whatever drives the state's price level applies to every matter type here at roughly the same strength.
The largest tracked median in Florida is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 7 matter types rank Florida in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 7 between; immigration is 33rd.
In percentile terms it sits at the 33th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,350 | $9,200 | $29,300 | 32 | 31st | −10% | Indiana |
| Divorce | $2,900 | $8,000 | $22,800 | 28 | 31st | −6% | Missouri |
| DUI / DWI | $3,650 | $7,150 | $14,950 | 27 | 29th | −4% | Maine |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $4,550 | $13,800 | — | — | −12% | — |
| Immigration | $1,850 | $4,350 | $11,350 | 16 | 33rd | −8% | Wyoming |
| Bankruptcy | $1,400 | $3,150 | $5,100 | 13 | 31st | −12% | Idaho |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $1,950 | $4,050 | 8 | 29th | −12% | Arizona |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $1,850 | $5,950 | 7 | 31st | −11% | Wyoming |
Simple tier. $1,850 ÷ $215 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $411 a month. The $2,500 step to the moderate tier is 7 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,350 to $11,350 is a $7,000 step, mostly work: 18 more hours at $265 is $4,770, while moving to $335 across 34 hours adds $2,380. Work carries 67%.
Borrowing the wrong row. North Dakota ($4,350) is $0 light, Wyoming ($4,400) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $400, 8x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $2,600 is 10 hours at $265; $7,000 is 26. Over the 6-12 months recorded for a moderate immigration, that is 1 to 3 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Florida's own recorded figures, $11,350 buys 6.1 matters at the $1,850 simple median — or, counted in time, 34 implied hours against 9, a factor of 3.8 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Floridacourt'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.