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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Nevada, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Nevada costs on average $5,350, 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 $375 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 | $3,200 | $5,350 | $8,500 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $7,550 | $10,350 | $14,100 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$200 – $375/ hour
Median: $275/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 Nevada. The recorded median total is $5,350, 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 $2,610–$4,275 of the Nevada 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 $5,350, the median immigration cost in Nevada runs 8% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Nevada carries 3 rows — simple, $900–$2,700 at $150–$300/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,200–$8,500 at $200–$375/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $7,550–$14,100 at $250–$450/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$5,350 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,150 above the $3,200 floor, $3,150 under the $8,500 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
At 18th of 49, Nevada sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $600 more than the $4,750 median state, or 13%, with 17 states recording a higher median.
Maryland ($5,350) and Maine ($5,300) bracket Nevada inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 18th is close to arbitrary.
5 tracked states — Minnesota, Maryland, Maine, Oregon among them — record a median within three percent of Nevada's $5,350. 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 Nevada is 23rd of 49 at $275 an hour, 5 places behind its 18th position on total cost.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Nevada |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Illinois | $5,850 | +$500 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | $5,700 | +$350 |
| 14 | Utah | $5,600 | +$250 |
| 15 | Texas | $5,550 | +$200 |
| 16 | Minnesota | $5,400 | +$50 |
| 17 | Maryland | $5,350 | −$0 |
| 18 | Nevada | $5,350 | — |
| 19 | Maine | $5,300 | −$50 |
| 20 | Oregon | $5,300 | −$50 |
| 21 | Virginia | $5,250 | −$100 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $5,050 | −$300 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $4,850 | −$500 |
| 24 | Arizona | $4,750 | −$600 |
$0 up or $50 down moves Nevada a row. A ten percent revision to the underlying figure would cross 12 rows in total — 7 up, 5 down — so the rank reads better as a band than as a precise place.
Climbing five places would mean passing Massachusetts, Utah, Texas, Minnesota, Maryland and adding $350 to the $5,350 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Maine, Oregon, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin: $500.
$1,800 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $2,000 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $275 an hour, the $5,350 median represents about 19 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours, so 1 more hours of work sit behind the Nevada figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.8x a simple one in Nevada, but the implied workload only rises 3.8x — 8 hours at $225 becomes 30 hours at $350 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.56x 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 19 hours at $275.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,350 median is roughly $594 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Nevada is 7th of 49 at 19 hours, 11 places above its cost rank of 18th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
29% up the $3,200–$8,500 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 17 hours at $275 against the 19 the local immigration median implies — 2 hours apart.
| Measure | Nevada | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $5,350 | 18th |
| Hourly median | $275 | 23rd |
| Implied hours | 19 | 7th |
| Simple median | $1,800 | 33rd |
| Complex median | $10,350 | 29th |
$275 an hour puts Nevada between Wisconsin ($280) and Maine ($270) — not the immigration cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $275 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Nevada on its own within this dataset.
$5,350 buys 24 hours at $225, 19 at $275, 15 at $350.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Arizona | $280 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | $280 |
| 23 | Nevada | $275 |
| 24 | Maine | $270 |
| 25 | Michigan | $270 |
Nevada moves up the table as complexity rises: 33rd at the simple tier, 18th at moderate, 29th at complex, a 4-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$1,800 is 33rd of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Montana ($1,800) and over Nebraska ($1,750), $100 under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$10,350 is 29th of 49 once contested, between Wisconsin ($10,550) and Indiana ($10,050), $400 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
$500 separates the simple ceiling of $2,700 from the moderate floor of $3,200, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $7,550 upward. The expensive end of a routine immigration and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Nevada.
| Tier | Nevada | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,800 | 33rd | $1,900 | 8 |
| moderate | $5,350 | 18th | $4,750 | 19 |
| complex | $10,350 | 29th | $10,750 | 30 |
$1,800 drops Nevada to 33rd of 49 on straightforward matters, 15 below its moderate position and $100 (5%) under the $1,900 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $225: 42% of the moderate tier's 19, over 3-6 months.
Montana ($1,800) and Nebraska ($1,750) bracket it — a $50 window.
8 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $1,800, denser than the 5 around the moderate row.
$10,350 drops Nevada to 29th of 49 on contested matters, 11 below its moderate position and $400 (4%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
30 implied hours at $350: 158% of the moderate tier's 19, over 12-24+ months.
Wisconsin ($10,550) and Indiana ($10,050) bracket it — a $500 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $10,350 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Missouri | $1,800 |
| 32 | Montana | $1,800 |
| 33 | Nevada | $1,800 |
| 34 | Nebraska | $1,750 |
| 35 | North Carolina | $1,750 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Tennessee | $10,650 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $10,550 |
| 29 | Nevada | $10,350 |
| 30 | Indiana | $10,050 |
| 31 | Ohio | $9,900 |
In Nevada a immigration is 5th of 8 at $5,350, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 54% of Criminal Defense ($10,000).
Across practice areas Nevada ranges from 17th of 49 for Bankruptcy to 28th for Criminal Defense — a 11-place spread, with its 18th on immigration inside it.
Nevada is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 13% above its own midpoint while Criminal Defense runs 2% below its own midpoint — a 15-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Nevada is 4.8x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
1 of 7 matter types rank Nevada in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 6 between; immigration is 18th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 65th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,850 | $10,000 | $31,900 | 33 | 28th | −2% | Georgia |
| Divorce | $2,850 | $8,950 | $23,250 | 30 | 23rd | +5% | Georgia |
| DUI / DWI | $3,500 | $7,450 | $17,450 | 27 | 25th | level | Georgia |
| Personal Injury | $1,600 | $5,400 | $16,000 | — | — | +4% | — |
| Immigration | $1,800 | $5,350 | $10,350 | 19 | 18th | +13% | Maryland |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,800 | $4,650 | 15 | 17th | +6% | Maryland |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $2,300 | $4,800 | 9 | 20th | +3% | Maryland |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $2,100 | $5,600 | 8 | 21st | +1% | Maryland |
Simple tier. $1,800 ÷ $225 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $400 a month. The $3,550 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $5,350 to $10,350 is a $5,000 step weighted toward price: 11 more hours at $275 is $3,025, but $350 across 30 hours adds $2,250 — 43% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Maine ($5,300) is $50 light, Maryland ($5,350) is $0 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $600, 12x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,200 is 12 hours at $275; $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 Nevada's own recorded figures, $10,350 buys 5.8 matters at the $1,800 simple median — or, counted in time, 30 implied hours against 8, a factor of 3.8 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Nevadacourt'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.