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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Maine, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Maine costs on average $5,300, typically $3,200-$8,500 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $200 to $370 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 | $1,000 | $2,050 | $3,100 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $3,200 | $5,300 | $8,500 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $8,550 | $11,750 | $16,000 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$200 – $370/ hour
Median: $270/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 Maine. The recorded median total is $5,300, with reported quotes clustering between $3,200 and $8,500. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $2,560–$4,225 of the Maine 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 $5,300, the median immigration cost in Maine runs 7% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Maine carries 3 rows — simple, $1,000–$3,100 at $150–$295/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,200–$8,500 at $200–$370/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $8,550–$16,000 at $250–$445/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$5,300 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,100 above the $3,200 floor, $3,200 under the $8,500 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
At 19th of 49, Maine sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $550 more than the $4,750 median state, or 12%, with 18 states recording a higher median.
Nevada ($5,350) and Oregon ($5,300) bracket Maine inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 19th is close to arbitrary.
5 tracked states — Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon among them — record a median within three percent of Maine's $5,300. The figure sits in the densest part of the immigration distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
On hourly rate alone Maine is 24th of 49 at $270 an hour, 5 places behind its 19th position on total cost.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Maine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Massachusetts | $5,700 | +$400 |
| 14 | Utah | $5,600 | +$300 |
| 15 | Texas | $5,550 | +$250 |
| 16 | Minnesota | $5,400 | +$100 |
| 17 | Maryland | $5,350 | +$50 |
| 18 | Nevada | $5,350 | +$50 |
| 19 | Maine | $5,300 | — |
| 20 | Oregon | $5,300 | −$0 |
| 21 | Virginia | $5,250 | −$50 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $5,050 | −$250 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $4,850 | −$450 |
| 24 | Arizona | $4,750 | −$550 |
| 25 | Michigan | $4,750 | −$550 |
Within ten percent of the Maine figure there are 6 states above and only 3 below. $50 up or $0 down moves Maine 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 Utah, Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada and adding $300 to the $5,300 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Oregon, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona: $550.
$1,850 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,950 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $270 an hour, the $5,300 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 Maine figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.7x a simple one in Maine, but the implied workload only rises 3.8x — 9 hours at $225 becomes 34 hours at $345 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.53x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $3,200 to $8,500 the moderate band is $5,300 wide, close to the $4,750 peer median. End to end that is 20 hours at $270.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,300 median is roughly $589 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Maine is 5th of 49 at 20 hours, 14 places above its cost rank of 19th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
29% up the $3,200–$8,500 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 18 hours at $270 against the 20 the local immigration median implies — 2 hours apart.
| Measure | Maine | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $5,300 | 19th |
| Hourly median | $270 | 24th |
| Implied hours | 20 | 5th |
| Simple median | $2,050 | 21st |
| Complex median | $11,750 | 15th |
$270 an hour puts Maine between Nevada ($275) and Michigan ($270) — not the immigration cost pairing.
Michigan records the same $270: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$5,300 buys 24 hours at $225, 20 at $270, 15 at $345.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Wisconsin | $280 |
| 23 | Nevada | $275 |
| 24 | Maine | $270 |
| 25 | Michigan | $270 |
| 26 | Florida | $265 |
Maine moves up the table as complexity rises: 21st at the simple tier, 19th at moderate, 15th at complex, a 6-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$2,050 is 21st of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Arizona ($2,050) and over Utah ($2,050), $150 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$11,750 is 15th of 49 once contested, between Illinois ($11,800) and Virginia ($11,750), $1,000 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
Neither pair of adjacent bands touches: $100 of clear space between the simple and moderate tiers, and $50 between the moderate and complex tiers. Every recorded immigration figure in Maine maps to exactly one tier, which makes the tier label unusually informative here.
| Tier | Maine | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,050 | 21st | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $5,300 | 19th | $4,750 | 20 |
| complex | $11,750 | 15th | $10,750 | 34 |
$2,050 drops Maine to 21st of 49 on straightforward matters, 2 below its moderate position and $150 (8%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $225: 45% of the moderate tier's 20, over 3-6 months.
Arizona ($2,050) and Utah ($2,050) bracket it — a $0 window.
6 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,050, denser than the 5 around the moderate row.
$11,750 puts Maine 15th of 49 on contested matters, 4 up on its moderate position, and $1,000 (9%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.
34 implied hours at $345: 170% of the moderate tier's 20, over 12-24+ months.
Illinois ($11,800) and Virginia ($11,750) bracket it — a $50 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $11,750 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Wisconsin | $2,100 |
| 20 | Arizona | $2,050 |
| 21 | Maine | $2,050 |
| 22 | Utah | $2,050 |
| 23 | Georgia | $2,000 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Massachusetts | $12,000 |
| 14 | Illinois | $11,800 |
| 15 | Maine | $11,750 |
| 16 | Virginia | $11,750 |
| 17 | Vermont | $11,600 |
In Maine a immigration is 5th of 8 at $5,300, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 49% of Criminal Defense ($10,850).
Across practice areas Maine ranges from 17th of 49 for Criminal Defense to 28th for DUI / DWI — a 11-place spread, with its 19th on immigration inside it.
Maine is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 12% above its own midpoint while Real Estate Closing runs 8% below its own midpoint — a 20-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Maine 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.
1 of 6 matter types rank Maine in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; immigration is 19th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 63th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,350 | $10,850 | $29,900 | 37 | 17th | +6% | Texas |
| Divorce | $3,150 | $9,400 | $22,850 | 32 | 20th | +10% | Utah |
| DUI / DWI | $3,650 | $7,200 | $15,950 | 27 | 28th | −3% | Wyoming |
| Personal Injury | $1,600 | $5,350 | $15,850 | — | — | +3% | — |
| Immigration | $2,050 | $5,300 | $11,750 | 20 | 19th | +12% | Nevada |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,350 | $4,950 | 13 | 27th | −7% | Ohio |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $650 | $2,150 | $5,900 | 8 | 18th | +4% | Delaware |
| Real Estate Closing | $900 | $2,050 | $4,550 | 8 | — | −8% | — |
Simple tier. $2,050 ÷ $225 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $456 a month. The $3,250 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $5,300 to $11,750 is a $6,450 step, mostly work: 14 more hours at $270 is $3,780, while moving to $345 across 34 hours adds $2,550. Work carries 60%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Oregon ($5,300) is $0 light, Nevada ($5,350) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $550, 11x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,200 is 12 hours at $270; $8,500 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 Maine's own recorded figures, $11,750 buys 5.7 matters at the $2,050 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 Mainecourt'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.