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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Idaho, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Idaho costs on average $4,450, typically $2,700-$7,100 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $180 to $335 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 | $800 | $1,600 | $2,400 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,700 | $4,450 | $7,100 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $7,150 | $9,850 | $13,400 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$180 – $335/ hour
Median: $245/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 Idaho. The recorded median total is $4,450, with reported quotes clustering between $2,700 and $7,100. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $1,710–$3,375 of the Idaho 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 $4,450, the median immigration cost in Idaho runs 10% below the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Idaho carries 3 rows — simple, $800–$2,400 at $135–$265/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,700–$7,100 at $180–$335/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $7,150–$13,400 at $220–$400/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$4,450 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,750 above the $2,700 floor, $2,650 under the $7,100 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Idaho occupies the 28th row of 49 for a immigration. Its $4,450 median trails the $4,750 table midpoint by $300, which is 6% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Montana ($4,500) and Georgia ($4,400) bracket Idaho inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 28th is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Montana, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio among them — record a median within three percent of Idaho's $4,450. The figure sits in the densest part of the immigration distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Rate and total sit 2 places apart — 30th of 49 at $245 an hour against 28th on the immigration total — which is close enough to read as the same signal.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Idaho |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $5,050 | +$600 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $4,850 | +$400 |
| 24 | Arizona | $4,750 | +$300 |
| 25 | Michigan | $4,750 | +$300 |
| 26 | Tennessee | $4,700 | +$250 |
| 27 | Montana | $4,500 | +$50 |
| 28 | Idaho | $4,450 | — |
| 29 | Georgia | $4,400 | −$50 |
| 30 | Missouri | $4,400 | −$50 |
| 31 | Ohio | $4,400 | −$50 |
| 32 | Wyoming | $4,400 | −$50 |
| 33 | Florida | $4,350 | −$100 |
| 34 | North Dakota | $4,350 | −$100 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 11 below Idaho against 5 above. $50 up or $50 down moves Idaho a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 28th position is propped up by a thin immigration field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Tennessee, Montana and adding $400 to the $4,450 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Wyoming, Florida: $100.
$2,700 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,100 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $245 an hour, the $4,450 median represents about 18 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. That rounds to the same 18 hours as the peer median, so on workload Idaho is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
Idaho records a 6.2x gap between its simple and complex immigration medians. Decomposed, that is 4x more billed time and 1.55x a higher rate: 8 hours at $200 becomes 32 hours at $310.
From $2,700 to $7,100 the moderate band is $4,400 wide, close to the $4,750 peer median. End to end that is 18 hours at $245.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $4,450 median is roughly $494 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Idaho is 24th of 49 at 18 hours, 4 places above its cost rank of 28th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
47% up the $2,700–$7,100 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 19 hours at $245 against the 18 the local immigration median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Idaho | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,450 | 28th |
| Hourly median | $245 | 30th |
| Implied hours | 18 | 24th |
| Simple median | $1,600 | 39th |
| Complex median | $9,850 | 32nd |
$245 an hour puts Idaho between Wyoming ($250) and Indiana ($245) — not the immigration cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $245 — Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this immigration table.
$4,450 buys 22 hours at $200, 18 at $245, 14 at $310.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | Ohio | $255 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $250 |
| 30 | Idaho | $245 |
| 31 | Indiana | $245 |
| 32 | Iowa | $245 |
Idaho moves up the table as complexity rises: 39th at the simple tier, 28th at moderate, 32nd at complex, a 7-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$1,600 is 39th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under North Dakota ($1,650) and over Indiana ($1,600), $300 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$9,850 is 32nd of 49 once contested, between Ohio ($9,900) and New Mexico ($9,500), $900 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
Neither pair of adjacent bands touches: $300 of clear space between the simple and moderate tiers, and $50 between the moderate and complex tiers. Every recorded immigration figure in Idaho maps to exactly one tier, which makes the tier label unusually informative here.
| Tier | Idaho | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,600 | 39th | $1,900 | 8 |
| moderate | $4,450 | 28th | $4,750 | 18 |
| complex | $9,850 | 32nd | $10,750 | 32 |
$1,600 drops Idaho to 39th of 49 on straightforward matters, 11 below its moderate position and $300 (16%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $200: 44% of the moderate tier's 18, over 3-6 months.
North Dakota ($1,650) and Indiana ($1,600) bracket it — a $50 window.
2 states sit within three percent of the $1,600 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
$9,850 drops Idaho to 32nd of 49 on contested matters, 4 below its moderate position and $900 (8%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
32 implied hours at $310: 178% of the moderate tier's 18, over 12-24+ months.
Ohio ($9,900) and New Mexico ($9,500) bracket it — a $400 window.
2 states sit within three percent of the $9,850 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | Mississippi | $1,650 |
| 38 | North Dakota | $1,650 |
| 39 | Idaho | $1,600 |
| 40 | Indiana | $1,600 |
| 41 | Tennessee | $1,600 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Indiana | $10,050 |
| 31 | Ohio | $9,900 |
| 32 | Idaho | $9,850 |
| 33 | New Mexico | $9,500 |
| 34 | West Virginia | $9,500 |
In Idaho a immigration is 4th of 8 at $4,450, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 54% of Criminal Defense ($8,200).
The state does not rank uniformly. Idaho is 22nd of 49 for Personal Injury but 43rd for Criminal Defense, a 21-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 28th on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.
Idaho is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 6% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 23% below its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Idaho 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.
0 of 7 matter types rank Idaho in the upper third, 3 in the lower, 4 between; immigration is 28th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 44th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,300 | $8,200 | $24,550 | 31 | 43rd | −20% | Nebraska |
| Divorce | $2,650 | $7,550 | $20,900 | 28 | 38th | −12% | West Virginia |
| DUI / DWI | $3,150 | $6,850 | $14,400 | 28 | 32nd | −8% | Pennsylvania |
| Immigration | $1,600 | $4,450 | $9,850 | 18 | 28th | −6% | Montana |
| Personal Injury | $1,300 | $4,400 | $12,750 | — | 22nd | −15% | Texas |
| Bankruptcy | $1,450 | $3,200 | $4,050 | 15 | 30th | −11% | Missouri |
| Real Estate Closing | $900 | $1,900 | $4,200 | 9 | — | −15% | — |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $500 | $1,600 | $5,500 | 7 | 37th | −23% | Nebraska |
Simple tier. $1,600 ÷ $200 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $356 a month. The $2,850 step to the moderate tier is 10 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,450 to $9,850 is a $5,400 step, mostly work: 14 more hours at $245 is $3,430, while moving to $310 across 32 hours adds $2,080. Work carries 62%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Georgia ($4,400) is $50 light, Montana ($4,500) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $300, 6x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $2,700 is 11 hours at $245; $7,100 is 29. 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 Idaho's own recorded figures, $9,850 buys 6.2 matters at the $1,600 simple median — or, counted in time, 32 implied hours against 8, a factor of 4 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Idahocourt'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.