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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Utah, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Utah costs on average $5,600, typically $3,350-$9,000 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $210 to $390 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 | $1,050 | $2,050 | $3,100 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $3,350 | $5,600 | $9,000 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $7,750 | $10,700 | $14,600 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$210 – $390/ hour
Median: $285/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 Utah. The recorded median total is $5,600, with reported quotes clustering between $3,350 and $9,000. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $2,860–$4,525 of the Utah 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 $5,600, the median immigration cost in Utah runs 13% above the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Utah carries 3 rows — simple, $1,050–$3,100 at $155–$315/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $3,350–$9,000 at $210–$390/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $7,750–$14,600 at $260–$470/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$5,600 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,250 above the $3,350 floor, $3,400 under the $9,000 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
At 14th of 49, Utah sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $850 more than the $4,750 median state, or 18%, with 13 states recording a higher median.
Massachusetts ($5,700) and Texas ($5,550) bracket Utah inside a $150 window — narrow enough that 14th is close to arbitrary.
Massachusetts, Texas record medians within three percent of Utah's $5,600. A immigration quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
Hourly rate does not explain this state's position. At $285 an hour Utah is only 20th of 49 on rate, yet 14th on total immigration cost — the totals reflect billed hours accumulating, not an unusually high rate.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Utah |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | New Jersey | $5,950 | +$350 |
| 9 | Colorado | $5,900 | +$300 |
| 10 | California | $5,850 | +$250 |
| 11 | District of Columbia | $5,850 | +$250 |
| 12 | Illinois | $5,850 | +$250 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | $5,700 | +$100 |
| 14 | Utah | $5,600 | — |
| 15 | Texas | $5,550 | −$50 |
| 16 | Minnesota | $5,400 | −$200 |
| 17 | Maryland | $5,350 | −$250 |
| 18 | Nevada | $5,350 | −$250 |
| 19 | Maine | $5,300 | −$300 |
| 20 | Oregon | $5,300 | −$300 |
The 14th position is not a stable fact about Utah: $100 up or $50 down moves Utah a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 16 rows, 8 above and 8 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts and adding $300 to the $5,600 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Maine: $300.
$1,550 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $2,250 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $285 an hour, the $5,600 median represents about 20 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours, so 2 more hours of work sit behind the Utah figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5.2x a simple one in Utah, but the implied workload only rises 3.2x — 9 hours at $235 becomes 29 hours at $365 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.55x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
In dollars the Utah moderate band is wide: $3,350 to $9,000, a $5,650 range, $900 wider than the peer-median band of $4,750. End to end that is 20 hours at $285.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,600 median is roughly $622 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Utah is 4th of 49 at 20 hours, 10 places above its cost rank of 14th on cost — more work behind the same immigration money.
25% up the $3,350–$9,000 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 17 hours at $285 against the 20 the local immigration median implies — 3 hours apart.
| Measure | Utah | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $5,600 | 14th |
| Hourly median | $285 | 20th |
| Implied hours | 20 | 4th |
| Simple median | $2,050 | 22nd |
| Complex median | $10,700 | 26th |
$285 an hour puts Utah between Pennsylvania ($285) and Arizona ($280) — not the immigration cost pairing.
Pennsylvania records the same $285: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$5,600 buys 24 hours at $235, 20 at $285, 15 at $365.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Texas | $290 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | $285 |
| 20 | Utah | $285 |
| 21 | Arizona | $280 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | $280 |
Ranked tier by tier, Utah slides 4 places downward: 22nd at the simple tier, 14th at moderate, 26th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$2,050 is 22nd of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Maine ($2,050) and over Georgia ($2,000), $150 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$10,700 is 26th of 49 once contested, between Wyoming ($10,750) and Tennessee ($10,650), $50 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
$250 separates the simple ceiling of $3,100 from the moderate floor of $3,350, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $7,750 upward. The expensive end of a routine immigration and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Utah.
| Tier | Utah | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,050 | 22nd | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $5,600 | 14th | $4,750 | 20 |
| complex | $10,700 | 26th | $10,750 | 29 |
$2,050 drops Utah to 22nd of 49 on straightforward matters, 8 below its moderate position and $150 (8%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $235: 45% of the moderate tier's 20, over 3-6 months.
Maine ($2,050) and Georgia ($2,000) bracket it — a $50 window.
6 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,050, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
$10,700 drops Utah to 26th of 49 on contested matters, 12 below its moderate position and $50 (0%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
29 implied hours at $365: 145% of the moderate tier's 20, over 12-24+ months.
Wyoming ($10,750) and Tennessee ($10,650) bracket it — a $100 window.
6 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $10,700, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Arizona | $2,050 |
| 21 | Maine | $2,050 |
| 22 | Utah | $2,050 |
| 23 | Georgia | $2,000 |
| 24 | Michigan | $2,000 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Texas | $10,850 |
| 25 | Wyoming | $10,750 |
| 26 | Utah | $10,700 |
| 27 | Tennessee | $10,650 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $10,550 |
In Utah a immigration is 4th of 8 at $5,600, between DUI / DWI and Personal Injury. At 49% of Criminal Defense ($11,400).
The state does not rank uniformly. Utah is 11th of 49 for Criminal Defense but 28th for Bankruptcy, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 14th on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.
The spread across practice areas is wide. Immigration runs 18% above its own midpoint, while Bankruptcy runs 7% below its own midpoint — 25 percentage points apart. A single "Utah is expensive" or "Utah is inexpensive" claim would be wrong for at least one of the matter types tracked here.
The largest tracked median in Utah is 5.4x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
3 of 8 matter types rank Utah in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; immigration is 14th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 73th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,950 | $11,400 | $30,800 | 36 | 11th | +12% | Washington |
| Divorce | $3,200 | $9,500 | $22,900 | 30 | 19th | +11% | Michigan |
| DUI / DWI | $3,300 | $7,750 | $18,600 | 27 | 23rd | +4% | Texas |
| Immigration | $2,050 | $5,600 | $10,700 | 20 | 14th | +18% | Massachusetts |
| Personal Injury | $1,650 | $4,950 | $16,700 | — | 18th | −5% | Pennsylvania |
| Bankruptcy | $1,700 | $3,350 | $5,450 | 13 | 28th | −7% | Maine |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,400 | $5,050 | 9 | 17th | +8% | Delaware |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $650 | $2,100 | $5,750 | 7 | 22nd | +1% | Nevada |
Simple tier. $2,050 ÷ $235 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $456 a month. The $3,550 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $5,600 to $10,700 is a $5,100 step weighted toward price: 9 more hours at $285 is $2,565, but $365 across 29 hours adds $2,320 — 47% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Texas ($5,550) is $50 light, Massachusetts ($5,700) is $100 heavy — but the $4,750 table midpoint is out by $850, 9x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,350 is 12 hours at $285; $9,000 is 32. Over the 6-12 months recorded for a moderate immigration, that is 1 to 4 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Utah's own recorded figures, $10,700 buys 5.2 matters at the $2,050 simple median — or, counted in time, 29 implied hours against 9, a factor of 3.2 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Utahcourt'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.