How Much Does a Immigration Cost in Oregon?

Oregon carries 3 rows — simple, $1,050–$3,200 at $160–$320/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,200–$8,500 at $215–$400/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $9,150–$17,100 at $270–$480/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 20th of 49, Oregon sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $550 more than the $4,750 median state, or 12%, with 19 states recording a higher median.

Maine ($5,300) and Virginia ($5,250) bracket Oregon inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 20th is close to arbitrary.

5 tracked states — Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Maine among them — record a median within three percent of Oregon'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.

Oregon ranks 17th of 49 on hourly rate at $295 an hour and 20th on total cost — 3 places apart, enough that the rate is a slightly optimistic guide to the total.

Within ten percent of the Oregon figure there are 6 states above and only 3 below. $0 up or $50 down moves Oregon 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 Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Maine and adding $250 to the $5,300 recorded here.

Five places down means passing under Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan: $550.

$1,850 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,950 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).

At $295 an hour, the $5,300 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 Oregon is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.

The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 6x a simple one in Oregon, but the implied workload only rises 3.7x — 9 hours at $240 becomes 33 hours at $375 — 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 18 hours at $295.

Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,300 median is roughly $589 a month of elapsed time.

By implied hours Oregon falls to 26th of 49 at 18 hours, 6 places below its 20th on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.

29% up the $3,200–$8,500 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 16 hours at $295 against the 18 the local immigration median implies — 2 hours apart.

$295 an hour puts Oregon between Minnesota ($295) and Texas ($290) — not the immigration cost pairing.

Illinois, Minnesota record the same $295: rate cannot separate them, totals do.

$5,300 buys 22 hours at $240, 18 at $295, 14 at $375.

Oregon moves up the table as complexity rises: 18th at the simple tier, 20th at moderate, 10th at complex, a 8-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.

$2,100 is 18th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Illinois ($2,150) and over Wisconsin ($2,100), $200 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.

$12,550 is 10th of 49 once contested, between California ($12,550) and Connecticut ($12,400), $1,800 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.

The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $3,200 against a moderate floor of $3,200 — but there is a clear gap of $650 between the moderate ceiling of $8,500 and the complex floor of $9,150. In Oregon the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.

$2,100 puts Oregon 18th of 49 on straightforward matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $200 (11%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.

9 implied hours at $240: 50% of the moderate tier's 18, over 3-6 months.

Illinois ($2,150) and Wisconsin ($2,100) bracket it — a $50 window.

5 states sit within three percent of the $2,100 here, against 5 at the moderate row.

$12,550 puts Oregon 10th of 49 on contested matters, 10 up on its moderate position, and $1,800 (17%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.

33 implied hours at $375: 183% of the moderate tier's 18, over 12-24+ months.

California ($12,550) and Connecticut ($12,400) bracket it — a $150 window.

4 states sit within three percent of the $12,550 here, against 5 at the moderate row.

In Oregon a immigration is 5th of 8 at $5,300, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 47% of Criminal Defense ($11,350).

The state does not rank uniformly. Oregon is 12th of 49 for Criminal Defense but 29th for Estate Planning / Probate, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 20th on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.

Oregon is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 12% above its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 6% below its own midpoint — a 18-point spread between the extremes.

Oregon's practice areas fan out more than most: its largest tracked median is 5.8x its smallest, against 5.1x for the typical state. Prices here are set matter by matter rather than by one statewide level.

2 of 7 matter types rank Oregon in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; immigration is 20th.

In percentile terms it sits at the 60th percentile of the 49 tracked states.

Simple tier. $2,100 ÷ $240 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $467 a month. The $3,200 step to the moderate tier is 9 more hours at that rate.

Work against price. $5,300 to $12,550 is a $7,250 step, mostly work: 15 more hours at $295 is $4,425, while moving to $375 across 33 hours adds $2,640. Work carries 63%.

Borrowing the wrong row. Virginia ($5,250) is $50 light, Maine ($5,300) is $0 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $550, 11x the neighbour error.

Both ends, in time. $3,200 is 11 hours at $295; $8,500 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 Oregon's own recorded figures, $12,550 buys 6 matters at the $2,100 simple median — or, counted in time, 33 implied hours against 9, a factor of 3.7 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.