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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Mississippi, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Mississippi costs on average $4,050, typically $2,450-$6,500 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $165 to $310 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 | $850 | $1,650 | $2,500 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,450 | $4,050 | $6,500 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $6,800 | $9,350 | $12,800 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$165 – $310/ hour
Median: $230/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 Mississippi. The recorded median total is $4,050, with reported quotes clustering between $2,450 and $6,500. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $1,310–$2,975 of the Mississippi 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 $4,050, the median immigration cost in Mississippi runs 18% below the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Mississippi carries 3 rows — simple, $850–$2,500 at $125–$250/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,450–$6,500 at $165–$310/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $6,800–$12,800 at $205–$375/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.
$4,050 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,600 above the $2,450 floor, $2,450 under the $6,500 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Sorted by median cost, Mississippi is 38th of 49 for a immigration, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $700 and 15% below the $4,750 midpoint, with 11 states recording a lower median still.
Iowa ($4,150) and Nebraska ($4,050) bracket Mississippi inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 38th is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas among them — record a median within three percent of Mississippi's $4,050. 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 measures nearly agree: 37th of 49 on hourly rate at $230 an hour, 38th on total cost, 1 place apart.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Mississippi |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | Wyoming | $4,400 | +$350 |
| 33 | Florida | $4,350 | +$300 |
| 34 | North Dakota | $4,350 | +$300 |
| 35 | North Carolina | $4,300 | +$250 |
| 36 | Indiana | $4,150 | +$100 |
| 37 | Iowa | $4,150 | +$100 |
| 38 | Mississippi | $4,050 | — |
| 39 | Nebraska | $4,050 | −$0 |
| 40 | Arkansas | $4,000 | −$50 |
| 41 | South Carolina | $4,000 | −$50 |
| 42 | South Dakota | $3,950 | −$100 |
| 43 | West Virginia | $3,950 | −$100 |
| 44 | Kansas | $3,800 | −$250 |
Within ten percent of the Mississippi figure there are 10 states above and only 6 below. $100 up or $0 down moves Mississippi 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 Florida, North Dakota, North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa and adding $300 to the $4,050 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Nebraska, Arkansas, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia: $100.
$3,100 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $700 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $230 an hour, the $4,050 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 Mississippi is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.7x a simple one in Mississippi, but the implied workload only rises 3.6x — 9 hours at $185 becomes 32 hours at $290 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.57x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,450 to $6,500 the moderate band is $4,050 wide, close to the $4,750 peer median. End to end that is 18 hours at $230.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $4,050 median is roughly $450 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Mississippi is 30th of 49 at 18 hours, 8 places above its cost rank of 38th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
57% up the $2,450–$6,500 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 21 hours at $230 against the 18 the local immigration median implies — 3 hours apart.
| Measure | Mississippi | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,050 | 38th |
| Hourly median | $230 | 37th |
| Implied hours | 18 | 30th |
| Simple median | $1,650 | 37th |
| Complex median | $9,350 | 35th |
$230 an hour puts Mississippi between Kansas ($230) and Nebraska ($230) — not the immigration cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $230 — Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this immigration table.
$4,050 buys 22 hours at $185, 18 at $230, 14 at $290.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | Tennessee | $245 |
| 36 | Kansas | $230 |
| 37 | Mississippi | $230 |
| 38 | Nebraska | $230 |
| 39 | North Carolina | $230 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 37th at the simple tier, 38th at moderate, 35th at complex of 49 — so Mississippi keeps roughly the same relative position whether the immigration is straightforward or contested.
$1,650 is 37th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under New Mexico ($1,700) and over North Dakota ($1,650), $250 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$9,350 is 35th of 49 once contested, between West Virginia ($9,500) and Missouri ($9,350), $1,400 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $2,500 against a moderate floor of $2,450 — but there is a clear gap of $300 between the moderate ceiling of $6,500 and the complex floor of $6,800. In Mississippi the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Mississippi | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,650 | 37th | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $4,050 | 38th | $4,750 | 18 |
| complex | $9,350 | 35th | $10,750 | 32 |
$1,650 puts Mississippi 37th of 49 on straightforward matters, 1 up on its moderate position, and $250 (13%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $185: 50% of the moderate tier's 18, over 3-6 months.
New Mexico ($1,700) and North Dakota ($1,650) bracket it — a $50 window.
1 states sit within three percent of the $1,650 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
$9,350 puts Mississippi 35th of 49 on contested matters, 3 up on its moderate position, and $1,400 (13%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
32 implied hours at $290: 178% of the moderate tier's 18, over 12-24+ months.
West Virginia ($9,500) and Missouri ($9,350) bracket it — a $150 window.
6 states sit within three percent of the $9,350 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | North Carolina | $1,750 |
| 36 | New Mexico | $1,700 |
| 37 | Mississippi | $1,650 |
| 38 | North Dakota | $1,650 |
| 39 | Idaho | $1,600 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | New Mexico | $9,500 |
| 34 | West Virginia | $9,500 |
| 35 | Mississippi | $9,350 |
| 36 | Missouri | $9,350 |
| 37 | Montana | $9,300 |
In Mississippi a immigration is 5th of 8 at $4,050, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 51% of Criminal Defense ($8,000).
Across practice areas Mississippi ranges from 34th of 49 for Divorce to 45th for Criminal Defense — a 11-place spread, with its 38th on immigration inside it.
Mississippi is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Divorce runs 7% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 25% below its own midpoint — a 18-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Mississippi is 5.2x 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 Mississippi in the upper third, 4 in the lower, 2 between; immigration is 38th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 23th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,150 | $8,000 | $23,550 | 32 | 45th | −22% | Kansas |
| Divorce | $2,450 | $7,950 | $20,000 | 32 | 34th | −7% | Iowa |
| DUI / DWI | $2,800 | $6,200 | $12,800 | 27 | 41st | −17% | Nebraska |
| Personal Injury | $1,350 | $4,100 | $12,600 | — | — | −21% | — |
| Immigration | $1,650 | $4,050 | $9,350 | 18 | 38th | −15% | Iowa |
| Bankruptcy | $1,200 | $2,900 | $4,000 | 14 | 39th | −19% | Tennessee |
| Real Estate Closing | $800 | $1,900 | $4,050 | 9 | 34th | −15% | Georgia |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $500 | $1,550 | $4,700 | 7 | — | −25% | — |
Simple tier. $1,650 ÷ $185 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $367 a month. The $2,400 step to the moderate tier is 9 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,050 to $9,350 is a $5,300 step, mostly work: 14 more hours at $230 is $3,220, while moving to $290 across 32 hours adds $1,920. Work carries 63%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Nebraska ($4,050) is $0 light, Iowa ($4,150) is $100 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $700, 7x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $2,450 is 11 hours at $230; $6,500 is 28. 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 Mississippi's own recorded figures, $9,350 buys 5.7 matters at the $1,650 simple median — or, counted in time, 32 implied hours against 9, a factor of 3.6 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Mississippicourt'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.