How Much Does a Immigration Cost in Kansas?

Kansas carries 3 rows — simple, $900–$2,700 at $125–$250/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,300–$6,100 at $165–$310/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $6,450–$12,100 at $210–$375/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.

$3,800 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,500 above the $2,300 floor, $2,300 under the $6,100 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.

Sorted by median cost, Kansas is 44th of 49 for a immigration, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $950 and 20% below the $4,750 midpoint, with 5 states recording a lower median still.

In the immigration table Kansas falls between New Mexico at $3,650 and West Virginia at $3,950, $150 above the first and $150 below the second.

Within three percent of Kansas's $3,800 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.

The two rankings disagree sharply. Kansas attorneys sit 36th of 49 on hourly rate at $230 an hour, but the state is only 44th on total immigration cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.

Within ten percent of the Kansas figure there are 8 states above and only 3 below. $150 up or $150 down moves Kansas 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 Nebraska, Arkansas, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and adding $250 to the $3,800 recorded here.

Five places down means passing under New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky: $450.

$3,350 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $450 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).

At $230 an hour, the $3,800 median represents about 17 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours: Kansas reaches its total in 1 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 4.9x a simple one in Kansas, but the implied workload only rises 3.1x — 10 hours at $185 becomes 31 hours at $290 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.57x carries an unusually large share of the increase.

The Kansas moderate band spans $2,300 to $6,100 — $3,800 — which is $950 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 17 hours at $230.

Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $3,800 median is roughly $422 a month of elapsed time.

By implied hours Kansas falls to 48th of 49 at 17 hours, 4 places below its 44th on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.

64% up the $2,300–$6,100 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 21 hours at $230 against the 17 the local immigration median implies — 4 hours apart.

$230 an hour puts Kansas between Tennessee ($245) and Mississippi ($230) — not the immigration cost pairing.

5 other states record exactly $230 — Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this immigration table.

$3,800 buys 21 hours at $185, 17 at $230, 13 at $290.

The tiers rank Kansas very differently. It is 30th at the simple tier, 44th at moderate, 42nd at complex of 49 — a fall of 12 places as the matter becomes harder. The state is expensive to start a immigration in and comparatively ordinary to finish one in.

$1,800 is 30th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Iowa ($1,800) and over Missouri ($1,800), $100 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.

$8,850 is 42nd of 49 once contested, between North Dakota ($8,900) and Alabama ($8,800), $1,900 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.

The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $2,700 against a moderate floor of $2,300 — but there is a clear gap of $350 between the moderate ceiling of $6,100 and the complex floor of $6,450. In Kansas the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.

$1,800 puts Kansas 30th of 49 on straightforward matters, 14 up on its moderate position, and $100 (5%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.

10 implied hours at $185: 59% of the moderate tier's 17, over 3-6 months.

Iowa ($1,800) and Missouri ($1,800) bracket it — a $0 window.

8 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $1,800, denser than the 0 around the moderate row.

$8,850 puts Kansas 42nd of 49 on contested matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $1,900 (18%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.

31 implied hours at $290: 182% of the moderate tier's 17, over 12-24+ months.

North Dakota ($8,900) and Alabama ($8,800) bracket it — a $100 window.

5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $8,850, denser than the 0 around the moderate row.

In Kansas a immigration is 5th of 8 at $3,800, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 47% of Criminal Defense ($8,150).

The state does not rank uniformly. Kansas is 23rd of 49 for Personal Injury but 48th for Divorce, a 25-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 44th on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.

Kansas is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Bankruptcy runs 15% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 25% below its own midpoint — a 10-point spread between the extremes.

The largest tracked median in Kansas is 5.3x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.

0 of 6 matter types rank Kansas in the upper third, 5 in the lower, 1 between; immigration is 44th.

In percentile terms it sits at the 10th percentile of the 49 tracked states.

Simple tier. $1,800 ÷ $185 = about 10 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $400 a month. The $2,000 step to the moderate tier is 7 more hours at that rate.

Work against price. $3,800 to $8,850 is a $5,050 step, mostly work: 14 more hours at $230 is $3,220, while moving to $290 across 31 hours adds $1,860. Work carries 63%.

Borrowing the wrong row. New Mexico ($3,650) is $150 light, West Virginia ($3,950) is $150 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $950, 6x the neighbour error.

Both ends, in time. $2,300 is 10 hours at $230; $6,100 is 27. 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 Kansas's own recorded figures, $8,850 buys 4.9 matters at the $1,800 simple median — or, counted in time, 31 implied hours against 10, a factor of 3.1 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.