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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Missouri, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Missouri costs on average $4,400, typically $2,650-$7,000 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $175 to $330 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 | $900 | $1,800 | $2,700 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,650 | $4,400 | $7,000 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $6,800 | $9,350 | $12,700 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$175 – $330/ 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 Missouri. The recorded median total is $4,400, with reported quotes clustering between $2,650 and $7,000. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $1,660–$3,325 of the Missouri 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 $4,400, the median immigration cost in Missouri runs 11% below the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Missouri carries 3 rows — simple, $900–$2,700 at $135–$265/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,650–$7,000 at $175–$330/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $6,800–$12,700 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.
$4,400 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,750 above the $2,650 floor, $2,600 under the $7,000 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
Missouri occupies the 30th row of 49 for a immigration. Its $4,400 median trails the $4,750 table midpoint by $350, which is 7% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Georgia ($4,400) and Ohio ($4,400) bracket Missouri inside a $0 window — narrow enough that 30th is close to arbitrary.
8 tracked states — Montana, Idaho, Georgia, Ohio among them — record a median within three percent of Missouri's $4,400. 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 Missouri is 33rd of 49 at $245 an hour, 3 places behind its 30th position on total cost.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Missouri |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Arizona | $4,750 | +$350 |
| 25 | Michigan | $4,750 | +$350 |
| 26 | Tennessee | $4,700 | +$300 |
| 27 | Montana | $4,500 | +$100 |
| 28 | Idaho | $4,450 | +$50 |
| 29 | Georgia | $4,400 | −$0 |
| 30 | Missouri | $4,400 | — |
| 31 | Ohio | $4,400 | −$0 |
| 32 | Wyoming | $4,400 | −$0 |
| 33 | Florida | $4,350 | −$50 |
| 34 | North Dakota | $4,350 | −$50 |
| 35 | North Carolina | $4,300 | −$100 |
| 36 | Indiana | $4,150 | −$250 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 9 below Missouri against 5 above. $0 up or $0 down moves Missouri a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 30th position is propped up by a thin immigration field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Michigan, Tennessee, Montana, Idaho, Georgia and adding $350 to the $4,400 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Ohio, Wyoming, Florida, North Dakota, North Carolina: $100.
$2,750 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,050 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $245 an hour, the $4,400 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 Missouri is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.2x a simple one in Missouri, but the implied workload only rises 3.3x — 9 hours at $200 becomes 30 hours at $310 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.55x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,650 to $7,000 the moderate band is $4,350 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 $4,400 median is roughly $489 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Missouri is 27th of 49 at 18 hours, 3 places above its cost rank of 30th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
48% up the $2,650–$7,000 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 19 hours at $245 against the 18 the local immigration median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Missouri | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,400 | 30th |
| Hourly median | $245 | 33rd |
| Implied hours | 18 | 27th |
| Simple median | $1,800 | 31st |
| Complex median | $9,350 | 36th |
$245 an hour puts Missouri between Iowa ($245) and Montana ($245) — not the immigration cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $245 — Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Montana among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this immigration table.
$4,400 buys 22 hours at $200, 18 at $245, 14 at $310.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Indiana | $245 |
| 32 | Iowa | $245 |
| 33 | Missouri | $245 |
| 34 | Montana | $245 |
| 35 | Tennessee | $245 |
Ranked tier by tier, Missouri slides 5 places downward: 31st at the simple tier, 30th at moderate, 36th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$1,800 is 31st of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Kansas ($1,800) and over Montana ($1,800), $100 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$9,350 is 36th of 49 once contested, between Mississippi ($9,350) and Montana ($9,300), $1,400 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Missouri: the simple tier reaches $2,700 where the moderate tier starts at $2,650, and the moderate tier reaches $7,000 where the complex tier starts at $6,800. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Missouri | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,800 | 31st | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $4,400 | 30th | $4,750 | 18 |
| complex | $9,350 | 36th | $10,750 | 30 |
$1,800 drops Missouri to 31st of 49 on straightforward matters, 1 below its moderate position and $100 (5%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $200: 50% of the moderate tier's 18, over 3-6 months.
Kansas ($1,800) and Montana ($1,800) bracket it — a $0 window.
8 states sit within three percent of the $1,800 here, against 8 at the moderate row.
$9,350 drops Missouri to 36th of 49 on contested matters, 6 below its moderate position and $1,400 (13%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
30 implied hours at $310: 167% of the moderate tier's 18, over 12-24+ months.
Mississippi ($9,350) and Montana ($9,300) bracket it — a $50 window.
6 states sit within three percent of the $9,350 here, against 8 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Iowa | $1,800 |
| 30 | Kansas | $1,800 |
| 31 | Missouri | $1,800 |
| 32 | Montana | $1,800 |
| 33 | Nevada | $1,800 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | West Virginia | $9,500 |
| 35 | Mississippi | $9,350 |
| 36 | Missouri | $9,350 |
| 37 | Montana | $9,300 |
| 38 | Iowa | $9,200 |
In Missouri a immigration is 5th of 8 at $4,400, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 49% of Criminal Defense ($8,950).
Across practice areas Missouri ranges from 29th of 49 for Bankruptcy to 37th for DUI / DWI — a 8-place spread, with its 30th on immigration inside it.
Missouri is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Divorce runs 5% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 18% below its own midpoint — a 13-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Missouri 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 5 matter types rank Missouri in the upper third, 1 in the lower, 4 between; immigration is 30th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 40th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,250 | $8,950 | $26,350 | 34 | 34th | −12% | West Virginia |
| Divorce | $2,550 | $8,100 | $20,750 | 31 | 30th | −5% | Wyoming |
| DUI / DWI | $3,050 | $6,350 | $13,600 | 26 | 37th | −15% | North Carolina |
| Personal Injury | $1,300 | $4,700 | $14,050 | — | — | −10% | — |
| Immigration | $1,800 | $4,400 | $9,350 | 18 | 30th | −7% | Georgia |
| Bankruptcy | $1,300 | $3,300 | $4,500 | 15 | 29th | −8% | Utah |
| Real Estate Closing | $800 | $1,900 | $4,050 | 9 | — | −15% | — |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $500 | $1,700 | $5,250 | 7 | — | −18% | — |
Simple tier. $1,800 ÷ $200 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $400 a month. The $2,600 step to the moderate tier is 9 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,400 to $9,350 is a $4,950 step, mostly work: 12 more hours at $245 is $2,940, while moving to $310 across 30 hours adds $1,950. Work carries 60%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Ohio ($4,400) is $0 light, Georgia ($4,400) is $0 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $350, 350x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $2,650 is 11 hours at $245; $7,000 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 Missouri's own recorded figures, $9,350 buys 5.2 matters at the $1,800 simple median — or, counted in time, 30 implied hours against 9, a factor of 3.3 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Missouricourt'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.