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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Hawaii, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Hawaii costs on average $7,150, typically $4,300-$11,400 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $270 to $505 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 | $1,250 | $2,550 | $3,800 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $4,300 | $7,150 | $11,400 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $11,650 | $16,050 | $21,900 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$270 – $505/ hour
Median: $370/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 Hawaii. The recorded median total is $7,150, with reported quotes clustering between $4,300 and $11,400. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $4,410–$6,075 of the Hawaii 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 $7,150, the median immigration cost in Hawaii runs 45% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Hawaii carries 3 rows — simple, $1,250–$3,800 at $200–$405/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $4,300–$11,400 at $270–$505/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $11,650–$21,900 at $335–$605/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures put it in the top quarter of the table.
$7,150 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,850 above the $4,300 floor, $4,250 under the $11,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Hawaii ranks 1st of 49 tracked states for a immigration, inside the highest-cost quarter of the table. The gap to the $4,750 midpoint is $2,400 — 51% — and only 0 states record a higher median.
No tracked state records a higher median immigration figure than Hawaii; the next row down is New York at $6,250, $900 lower.
Within three percent of Hawaii's $7,150 there is no other tracked state at all, so the figure is not part of a cluster and small changes to it would move the state several rows.
Ranked by hourly rate instead of by total, Hawaii does not move: 1st on both measures, at $370 an hour. Rate and total are telling the same story here.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Hawaii |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii | $7,150 | — |
| 2 | New York | $6,250 | −$900 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | $6,250 | −$900 |
| 4 | Vermont | $6,200 | −$950 |
| 5 | Washington | $6,200 | −$950 |
| 6 | New Hampshire | $6,150 | −$1,000 |
| 7 | Connecticut | $6,050 | −$1,100 |
$900 less moves Hawaii down a row, and only 0 tracked states sit within ten percent of the Hawaii figure: 0 above it and 0 below. The position is comparatively well separated from its neighbours.
There is nothing above Hawaii to climb past: $7,150 is the highest immigration median recorded in this dataset.
Five places down means passing under New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, New Hampshire: $1,000.
$0 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $3,800 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $370 an hour, the $7,150 median represents about 19 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours, so 1 more hours of work sit behind the Hawaii figure than behind the typical state's.
Hawaii records a 6.3x gap between its simple and complex immigration medians. Decomposed, that is 4.3x more billed time and 1.54x a higher rate: 8 hours at $305 becomes 34 hours at $470.
In dollars the Hawaii moderate band is wide: $4,300 to $11,400, a $7,100 range, $2,350 wider than the peer-median band of $4,750. End to end that is 19 hours at $370.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $7,150 median is roughly $794 a month of elapsed time.
By implied hours Hawaii falls to 9th of 49 at 19 hours, 8 places below its 1st on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.
6% up the $4,300–$11,400 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 13 hours at $370 against the 19 the local immigration median implies — 6 hours apart.
| Measure | Hawaii | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $7,150 | 1st |
| Hourly median | $370 | 1st |
| Implied hours | 19 | 9th |
| Simple median | $2,550 | 2nd |
| Complex median | $16,050 | 1st |
Hawaii's $370 median rate is the highest recorded; the next row down is Washington at $330.
No other tracked state records $370 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Hawaii on its own within this dataset.
$7,150 buys 23 hours at $305, 19 at $370, 15 at $470.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii | $370 |
| 2 | Washington | $330 |
| 3 | New Jersey | $325 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 2nd at the simple tier, 1st at moderate, 1st at complex of 49 — so Hawaii keeps roughly the same relative position whether the immigration is straightforward or contested.
$2,550 is 2nd of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Washington ($2,600) and over Rhode Island ($2,550), $650 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
At the complex tier Hawaii records $16,050 for 1st of 49, against a tier midpoint of $10,750.
Neither pair of adjacent bands touches: $500 of clear space between the simple and moderate tiers, and $250 between the moderate and complex tiers. Every recorded immigration figure in Hawaii maps to exactly one tier, which makes the tier label unusually informative here.
| Tier | Hawaii | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,550 | 2nd | $1,900 | 8 |
| moderate | $7,150 | 1st | $4,750 | 19 |
| complex | $16,050 | 1st | $10,750 | 34 |
$2,550 drops Hawaii to 2nd of 49 on straightforward matters, 1 below its moderate position and $650 (34%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $305: 42% of the moderate tier's 19, over 3-6 months.
Washington ($2,600) and Rhode Island ($2,550) bracket it — a $50 window.
3 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,550, denser than the 0 around the moderate row.
$16,050 keeps Hawaii at 1st on contested matters, the same place it holds on the headline figure, $5,300 (49%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.
34 implied hours at $470: 179% of the moderate tier's 19, over 12-24+ months.
Nothing else sits within three percent of the $16,050 here, against 0 at the moderate tier.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington | $2,600 |
| 2 | Hawaii | $2,550 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | $2,550 |
| 4 | California | $2,500 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii | $16,050 |
| 2 | Washington | $14,100 |
| 3 | Maryland | $13,850 |
In Hawaii a immigration is 4th of 8 at $7,150, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 54% of Criminal Defense ($13,350).
Hawaii is consistent across practice areas: over the matter types tracked here its rank only moves between 1st (Criminal Defense) and 2nd (DUI / DWI), so its 1st on immigration reflects a general price level rather than something specific to this matter.
The spread across practice areas is wide. Divorce runs 51% above its own midpoint, while Bankruptcy runs 22% above its own midpoint — 29 percentage points apart. A single "Hawaii is expensive" or "Hawaii is inexpensive" claim would be wrong for at least one of the matter types tracked here.
The largest tracked median in Hawaii is 5.1x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
Every one of the 8 matter types tracked for Hawaii places it in the upper third of its table, which is why the 1st on immigration is not an outlier.
That places the immigration figure in the 100th percentile of the 49 states tracked here.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $5,050 | $13,350 | $38,050 | 33 | 1st | +31% | — |
| Divorce | $3,750 | $12,900 | $30,200 | 32 | 1st | +51% | — |
| DUI / DWI | $4,400 | $9,700 | $21,250 | 26 | 2nd | +30% | Washington |
| Immigration | $2,550 | $7,150 | $16,050 | 19 | 1st | +51% | — |
| Personal Injury | $1,900 | $6,650 | $20,850 | — | 1st | +28% | — |
| Bankruptcy | $2,150 | $4,400 | $6,550 | 13 | 1st | +22% | — |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,400 | $3,200 | $5,700 | 10 | 1st | +44% | — |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $750 | $2,600 | $7,750 | 7 | 1st | +25% | — |
Simple tier. $2,550 ÷ $305 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $567 a month. The $4,600 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $7,150 to $16,050 is a $8,900 step, mostly work: 15 more hours at $370 is $5,550, while moving to $470 across 34 hours adds $3,400. Work carries 62%.
What using the wrong reference figure costs. Hawaii ends the immigration table, so one side has no row to borrow. The $4,750 midpoint of all 49 tracked states is out by $2,400 against the $7,150 recorded here.
Both ends, in time. $4,300 is 12 hours at $370; $11,400 is 31. 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 Hawaii's own recorded figures, $16,050 buys 6.3 matters at the $2,550 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 Hawaiicourt'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.