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2026 cost estimates for immigration in New Hampshire, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in New Hampshire costs on average $6,150, typically $3,700-$9,900 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $235 to $440 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 | $1,150 | $2,300 | $3,400 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $3,700 | $6,150 | $9,900 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $9,700 | $13,300 | $18,100 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$235 – $440/ hour
Median: $320/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 New Hampshire. The recorded median total is $6,150, with reported quotes clustering between $3,700 and $9,900. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $3,410–$5,075 of the New Hampshire 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 $6,150, the median immigration cost in New Hampshire runs 25% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
New Hampshire carries 3 rows — simple, $1,150–$3,400 at $175–$350/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,700–$9,900 at $235–$440/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $9,700–$18,100 at $290–$525/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures put it in the top quarter of the table.
$6,150 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,450 above the $3,700 floor, $3,750 under the $9,900 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
New Hampshire ranks 6th of 49 tracked states for a immigration, inside the highest-cost quarter of the table. The gap to the $4,750 midpoint is $1,400 — 29% — and only 5 states record a higher median.
Washington ($6,200) and Connecticut ($6,050) bracket New Hampshire inside a $150 window — narrow enough that 6th is close to arbitrary.
5 tracked states — New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington among them — record a median within three percent of New Hampshire's $6,150. The figure sits in the densest part of the immigration distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Rate and total sit 1 place apart — 7th of 49 at $320 an hour against 6th on the immigration total — which is close enough to read as the same signal.
| Rank | State | Median | Against New Hampshire |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii | $7,150 | +$1,000 |
| 2 | New York | $6,250 | +$100 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | $6,250 | +$100 |
| 4 | Vermont | $6,200 | +$50 |
| 5 | Washington | $6,200 | +$50 |
| 6 | New Hampshire | $6,150 | — |
| 7 | Connecticut | $6,050 | −$100 |
| 8 | New Jersey | $5,950 | −$200 |
| 9 | Colorado | $5,900 | −$250 |
| 10 | California | $5,850 | −$300 |
| 11 | District of Columbia | $5,850 | −$300 |
| 12 | Illinois | $5,850 | −$300 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 9 below New Hampshire against 4 above. $50 up or $100 down moves New Hampshire a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 6th position is propped up by a thin immigration field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Hawaii, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and adding $1,000 to the $6,150 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado, California, District of Columbia: $300.
$1,000 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $2,800 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $320 an hour, the $6,150 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 New Hampshire figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.8x a simple one in New Hampshire, but the implied workload only rises 3.6x — 9 hours at $265 becomes 32 hours at $410 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.55x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
In dollars the New Hampshire moderate band is wide: $3,700 to $9,900, a $6,200 range, $1,450 wider than the peer-median band of $4,750. End to end that is 19 hours at $320.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $6,150 median is roughly $683 a month of elapsed time.
By implied hours New Hampshire falls to 11th of 49 at 19 hours, 5 places below its 6th on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.
17% up the $3,700–$9,900 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 15 hours at $320 against the 19 the local immigration median implies — 4 hours apart.
| Measure | New Hampshire | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $6,150 | 6th |
| Hourly median | $320 | 7th |
| Implied hours | 19 | 11th |
| Simple median | $2,300 | 9th |
| Complex median | $13,300 | 4th |
$320 an hour puts New Hampshire between Connecticut ($320) and Rhode Island ($320) — not the immigration cost pairing.
California, Connecticut, Rhode Island record the same $320: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$6,150 buys 23 hours at $265, 19 at $320, 15 at $410.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | California | $320 |
| 6 | Connecticut | $320 |
| 7 | New Hampshire | $320 |
| 8 | Rhode Island | $320 |
| 9 | District of Columbia | $315 |
New Hampshire moves up the table as complexity rises: 9th at the simple tier, 6th at moderate, 4th at complex, a 5-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$2,300 is 9th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Connecticut ($2,300) and over New York ($2,300), $400 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$13,300 is 4th of 49 once contested, between Maryland ($13,850) and Rhode Island ($13,250), $2,550 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
$300 separates the simple ceiling of $3,400 from the moderate floor of $3,700, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $9,700 upward. The expensive end of a routine immigration and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in New Hampshire.
| Tier | New Hampshire | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,300 | 9th | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $6,150 | 6th | $4,750 | 19 |
| complex | $13,300 | 4th | $10,750 | 32 |
$2,300 drops New Hampshire to 9th of 49 on straightforward matters, 3 below its moderate position and $400 (21%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $265: 47% of the moderate tier's 19, over 3-6 months.
Connecticut ($2,300) and New York ($2,300) bracket it — a $0 window.
8 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,300, denser than the 5 around the moderate row.
$13,300 puts New Hampshire 4th of 49 on contested matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $2,550 (24%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.
32 implied hours at $410: 168% of the moderate tier's 19, over 12-24+ months.
Maryland ($13,850) and Rhode Island ($13,250) bracket it — a $600 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $13,300 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | New Jersey | $2,350 |
| 8 | Connecticut | $2,300 |
| 9 | New Hampshire | $2,300 |
| 10 | New York | $2,300 |
| 11 | Vermont | $2,300 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Washington | $14,100 |
| 3 | Maryland | $13,850 |
| 4 | New Hampshire | $13,300 |
| 5 | Rhode Island | $13,250 |
| 6 | Colorado | $13,200 |
In New Hampshire a immigration is 4th of 8 at $6,150, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 49% of Criminal Defense ($12,450).
Across practice areas New Hampshire ranges from 2nd of 49 for Estate Planning / Probate to 12th for Bankruptcy — a 10-place spread, with its 6th on immigration inside it.
New Hampshire is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 29% above its own midpoint while Real Estate Closing runs 12% above its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in New Hampshire is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
Every one of the 8 matter types tracked for New Hampshire places it in the upper third of its table, which is why the 6th on immigration is not an outlier.
That places the immigration figure in the 90th percentile of the 49 states tracked here.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,900 | $12,450 | $32,250 | 36 | 3rd | +22% | Rhode Island |
| Divorce | $3,800 | $10,350 | $27,400 | 30 | 10th | +21% | Colorado |
| DUI / DWI | $4,200 | $8,600 | $19,550 | 27 | 11th | +15% | District of Columbia |
| Immigration | $2,300 | $6,150 | $13,300 | 19 | 6th | +29% | Washington |
| Personal Injury | $1,850 | $5,900 | $17,650 | — | 4th | +13% | Illinois |
| Bankruptcy | $1,600 | $4,050 | $5,550 | 14 | 12th | +13% | Minnesota |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $750 | $2,550 | $7,550 | 8 | 2nd | +23% | Hawaii |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,500 | $5,750 | 9 | 10th | +12% | District of Columbia |
Simple tier. $2,300 ÷ $265 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $511 a month. The $3,850 step to the moderate tier is 10 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $6,150 to $13,300 is a $7,150 step weighted toward price: 13 more hours at $320 is $4,160, but $410 across 32 hours adds $2,880 — 41% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Connecticut ($6,050) is $100 light, Washington ($6,200) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $1,400, 14x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,700 is 12 hours at $320; $9,900 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 New Hampshire's own recorded figures, $13,300 buys 5.8 matters at the $2,300 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 New Hampshirecourt'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.