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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Texas, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Texas costs on average $5,550, typically $3,350-$8,900 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $210 to $395 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 | $950 | $1,900 | $2,900 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $3,350 | $5,550 | $8,900 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $7,900 | $10,850 | $14,800 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$210 – $395/ hour
Median: $290/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 Texas. The recorded median total is $5,550, with reported quotes clustering between $3,350 and $8,900. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $2,810–$4,475 of the Texas 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 $5,550, the median immigration cost in Texas runs 12% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Texas carries 3 rows — simple, $950–$2,900 at $155–$315/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,350–$8,900 at $210–$395/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $7,900–$14,800 at $260–$470/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$5,550 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,200 above the $3,350 floor, $3,350 under the $8,900 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
At 15th of 49, Texas sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $800 more than the $4,750 median state, or 17%, with 14 states recording a higher median.
Utah ($5,600) and Minnesota ($5,400) bracket Texas inside a $200 window — narrow enough that 15th is close to arbitrary.
Massachusetts, Utah, Minnesota record medians within three percent of Texas's $5,550. A immigration quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
On hourly rate alone Texas is 18th of 49 at $290 an hour, 3 places behind its 15th position on total cost.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Colorado | $5,900 | +$350 |
| 10 | California | $5,850 | +$300 |
| 11 | District of Columbia | $5,850 | +$300 |
| 12 | Illinois | $5,850 | +$300 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | $5,700 | +$150 |
| 14 | Utah | $5,600 | +$50 |
| 15 | Texas | $5,550 | — |
| 16 | Minnesota | $5,400 | −$150 |
| 17 | Maryland | $5,350 | −$200 |
| 18 | Nevada | $5,350 | −$200 |
| 19 | Maine | $5,300 | −$250 |
| 20 | Oregon | $5,300 | −$250 |
| 21 | Virginia | $5,250 | −$300 |
The 15th position is not a stable fact about Texas: $50 up or $150 down moves Texas a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 15 rows, 8 above and 7 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Utah and adding $300 to the $5,550 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Maine, Oregon: $250.
$1,600 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $2,200 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $290 an hour, the $5,550 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 Texas figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.7x a simple one in Texas, but the implied workload only rises 3.8x — 8 hours at $235 becomes 30 hours at $365 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.55x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
In dollars the Texas moderate band is wide: $3,350 to $8,900, a $5,550 range, $800 wider than the peer-median band of $4,750. End to end that is 19 hours at $290.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,550 median is roughly $617 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Texas is 13th of 49 at 19 hours, 2 places above its cost rank of 15th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
25% up the $3,350–$8,900 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 16 hours at $290 against the 19 the local immigration median implies — 3 hours apart.
| Measure | Texas | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $5,550 | 15th |
| Hourly median | $290 | 18th |
| Implied hours | 19 | 13th |
| Simple median | $1,900 | 25th |
| Complex median | $10,850 | 24th |
$290 an hour puts Texas between Oregon ($295) and Pennsylvania ($285) — not the immigration cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $290 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Texas on its own within this dataset.
$5,550 buys 24 hours at $235, 19 at $290, 15 at $365.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Minnesota | $295 |
| 17 | Oregon | $295 |
| 18 | Texas | $290 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | $285 |
| 20 | Utah | $285 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 25th at the simple tier, 15th at moderate, 24th at complex of 49 — so Texas keeps roughly the same relative position whether the immigration is straightforward or contested.
$1,900 is 25th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Michigan ($2,000) and over Wyoming ($1,900), $0 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$10,850 is 24th of 49 once contested, between Michigan ($10,950) and Wyoming ($10,750), $100 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
$450 separates the simple ceiling of $2,900 from the moderate floor of $3,350, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $7,900 upward. The expensive end of a routine immigration and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Texas.
| Tier | Texas | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,900 | 25th | $1,900 | 8 |
| moderate | $5,550 | 15th | $4,750 | 19 |
| complex | $10,850 | 24th | $10,750 | 30 |
$1,900 drops Texas to 25th of 49 on straightforward matters, 10 below its moderate position and $0 (0%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $235: 42% of the moderate tier's 19, over 3-6 months.
Michigan ($2,000) and Wyoming ($1,900) bracket it — a $100 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $1,900 here, against 3 at the moderate row.
$10,850 drops Texas to 24th of 49 on contested matters, 9 below its moderate position and $100 (1%) over the $10,750 tier midpoint.
30 implied hours at $365: 158% of the moderate tier's 19, over 12-24+ months.
Michigan ($10,950) and Wyoming ($10,750) bracket it — a $200 window.
7 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $10,850, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Georgia | $2,000 |
| 24 | Michigan | $2,000 |
| 25 | Texas | $1,900 |
| 26 | Wyoming | $1,900 |
| 27 | Florida | $1,850 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $11,000 |
| 23 | Michigan | $10,950 |
| 24 | Texas | $10,850 |
| 25 | Wyoming | $10,750 |
| 26 | Utah | $10,700 |
In Texas a immigration is 4th of 8 at $5,550, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 51% of Criminal Defense ($10,950).
Across practice areas Texas ranges from 12th of 49 for Estate Planning / Probate to 24th for Real Estate Closing — a 12-place spread, with its 15th on immigration inside it.
The spread across practice areas is wide. Immigration runs 17% above its own midpoint, while Personal Injury runs 9% below its own midpoint — 26 percentage points apart. A single "Texas is expensive" or "Texas is inexpensive" claim would be wrong for at least one of the matter types tracked here.
The largest tracked median in Texas is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
4 of 8 matter types rank Texas in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 4 between; immigration is 15th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 71th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,700 | $10,950 | $32,250 | 35 | 16th | +7% | Arizona |
| Divorce | $3,000 | $8,900 | $25,250 | 28 | 24th | +4% | Nevada |
| DUI / DWI | $3,400 | $7,800 | $16,600 | 27 | 22nd | +5% | Illinois |
| Immigration | $1,900 | $5,550 | $10,850 | 19 | 15th | +17% | Utah |
| Personal Injury | $1,600 | $4,750 | $14,950 | — | 21st | −9% | Iowa |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,950 | $4,800 | 15 | 13th | +10% | New Hampshire |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,050 | $2,200 | $4,700 | 8 | 24th | −1% | Illinois |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $650 | $2,200 | $6,500 | 8 | 12th | +6% | Illinois |
Simple tier. $1,900 ÷ $235 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $422 a month. The $3,650 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $5,550 to $10,850 is a $5,300 step weighted toward price: 11 more hours at $290 is $3,190, but $365 across 30 hours adds $2,250 — 41% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Minnesota ($5,400) is $150 light, Utah ($5,600) is $50 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $800, 5x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,350 is 12 hours at $290; $8,900 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 Texas's own recorded figures, $10,850 buys 5.7 matters at the $1,900 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 Texascourt'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.