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2026 cost estimates for immigration in Wisconsin, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a immigration in Wisconsin costs on average $4,850, typically $2,900-$7,700 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $205 to $385 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 | $2,100 | $3,100 | 3-6 months |
| Moderate | $2,900 | $4,850 | $7,700 | 6-12 months |
| Complex | $7,650 | $10,550 | $14,400 | 12-24+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$205 – $385/ hour
Median: $280/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 Wisconsin. The recorded median total is $4,850, with reported quotes clustering between $2,900 and $7,700. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,075–$2,740, which leaves roughly $2,110–$3,775 of the Wisconsin 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 $4,850, the median immigration cost in Wisconsin is in line with the $4,938 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Wisconsin carries 3 rows — simple, $1,050–$3,100 at $155–$305/hr over 3-6 months; moderate, $2,900–$7,700 at $205–$385/hr over 6-12 months; complex, $7,650–$14,400 at $255–$460/hr over 12-24+ months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$4,850 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,950 above the $2,900 floor, $2,850 under the $7,700 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 49.
At 23rd of 49, Wisconsin sits above the midpoint of the immigration table: $100 more than the $4,750 median state, or 2%, with 22 states recording a higher median.
In the immigration table Wisconsin falls between Arizona at $4,750 and Pennsylvania at $5,050, $100 above the first and $200 below the second.
Arizona, Michigan record medians within three percent of Wisconsin's $4,850. A immigration quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
The two measures nearly agree: 22nd of 49 on hourly rate at $280 an hour, 23rd on total cost, 1 place apart.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Maryland | $5,350 | +$500 |
| 18 | Nevada | $5,350 | +$500 |
| 19 | Maine | $5,300 | +$450 |
| 20 | Oregon | $5,300 | +$450 |
| 21 | Virginia | $5,250 | +$400 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $5,050 | +$200 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $4,850 | — |
| 24 | Arizona | $4,750 | −$100 |
| 25 | Michigan | $4,750 | −$100 |
| 26 | Tennessee | $4,700 | −$150 |
| 27 | Montana | $4,500 | −$350 |
| 28 | Idaho | $4,450 | −$400 |
| 29 | Georgia | $4,400 | −$450 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 9 below Wisconsin against 4 above. $200 up or $100 down moves Wisconsin a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 23rd position is propped up by a thin immigration field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Nevada, Maine, Oregon, Virginia, Pennsylvania and adding $500 to the $4,850 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Arizona, Michigan, Tennessee, Montana, Idaho: $400.
$2,300 short of Hawaii ($7,150), $1,500 clear of Kentucky ($3,350).
At $280 an hour, the $4,850 median represents about 17 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 18 hours: Wisconsin reaches its total in 1 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex immigration costs 5x a simple one in Wisconsin, but the implied workload only rises 3.2x — 9 hours at $230 becomes 29 hours at $360 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.57x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,900 to $7,700 the moderate band is $4,800 wide, close to the $4,750 peer median. End to end that is 17 hours at $280.
Across the 6-12 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $4,850 median is roughly $539 a month of elapsed time.
By implied hours Wisconsin falls to 34th of 49 at 17 hours, 11 places below its 23rd on cost — the immigration total arriving on less recorded work.
39% up the $2,900–$7,700 band sits the $4,750 table midpoint, buying 17 hours at $280 against the 17 the local immigration median implies — 0 hours apart.
| Measure | Wisconsin | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $4,850 | 23rd |
| Hourly median | $280 | 22nd |
| Implied hours | 17 | 34th |
| Simple median | $2,100 | 19th |
| Complex median | $10,550 | 28th |
$280 an hour puts Wisconsin between Arizona ($280) and Nevada ($275) — not the immigration cost pairing.
Arizona records the same $280: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$4,850 buys 21 hours at $230, 17 at $280, 13 at $360.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Utah | $285 |
| 21 | Arizona | $280 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | $280 |
| 23 | Nevada | $275 |
| 24 | Maine | $270 |
Ranked tier by tier, Wisconsin slides 9 places downward: 19th at the simple tier, 23rd at moderate, 28th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$2,100 is 19th of 49 on a straightforward immigration, under Oregon ($2,100) and over Arizona ($2,050), $200 over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
$10,550 is 28th of 49 once contested, between Tennessee ($10,650) and Nevada ($10,350), $200 off the $10,750 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Wisconsin: the simple tier reaches $3,100 where the moderate tier starts at $2,900, and the moderate tier reaches $7,700 where the complex tier starts at $7,650. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Wisconsin | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,100 | 19th | $1,900 | 9 |
| moderate | $4,850 | 23rd | $4,750 | 17 |
| complex | $10,550 | 28th | $10,750 | 29 |
$2,100 puts Wisconsin 19th of 49 on straightforward matters, 4 up on its moderate position, and $200 (11%) over the $1,900 tier midpoint.
9 implied hours at $230: 53% of the moderate tier's 17, over 3-6 months.
Oregon ($2,100) and Arizona ($2,050) bracket it — a $50 window.
5 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,100, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
$10,550 drops Wisconsin to 28th of 49 on contested matters, 5 below its moderate position and $200 (2%) under the $10,750 tier midpoint.
29 implied hours at $360: 171% of the moderate tier's 17, over 12-24+ months.
Tennessee ($10,650) and Nevada ($10,350) bracket it — a $300 window.
5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $10,550, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Illinois | $2,150 |
| 18 | Oregon | $2,100 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | $2,100 |
| 20 | Arizona | $2,050 |
| 21 | Maine | $2,050 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Utah | $10,700 |
| 27 | Tennessee | $10,650 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $10,550 |
| 29 | Nevada | $10,350 |
| 30 | Indiana | $10,050 |
In Wisconsin a immigration is 5th of 8 at $4,850, between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy. At 47% of Criminal Defense ($10,400).
The state does not rank uniformly. Wisconsin is 11th of 49 for Personal Injury but 28th for Divorce, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 23rd on immigration says little about what the other lines cost.
Wisconsin is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Real Estate Closing runs 10% above its own midpoint while Divorce runs 3% below its own midpoint — a 13-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Wisconsin is 5x 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 Wisconsin in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; immigration is 23rd.
In percentile terms it sits at the 54th percentile of the 49 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,950 | $10,400 | $32,100 | 34 | 25th | +2% | Michigan |
| Divorce | $3,300 | $8,300 | $21,600 | 27 | 28th | −3% | Pennsylvania |
| DUI / DWI | $3,450 | $7,450 | $15,950 | 27 | 26th | level | Nevada |
| Personal Injury | $1,650 | $5,550 | $15,500 | — | 11th | +7% | New Jersey |
| Immigration | $2,100 | $4,850 | $10,550 | 17 | 23rd | +2% | Pennsylvania |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,900 | $5,350 | 15 | 15th | +8% | Illinois |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,100 | $2,450 | $4,550 | 10 | 14th | +10% | Rhode Island |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $2,100 | $5,750 | 8 | 23rd | +1% | Utah |
Simple tier. $2,100 ÷ $230 = about 9 hours, spread over 3-6 months at roughly $467 a month. The $2,750 step to the moderate tier is 8 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $4,850 to $10,550 is a $5,700 step weighted toward price: 12 more hours at $280 is $3,360, but $360 across 29 hours adds $2,320 — 41% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Arizona ($4,750) lands $100 under Wisconsin; from Pennsylvania ($5,050), $200 over; from the $4,750 table midpoint, $100 out.
Both ends, in time. $2,900 is 10 hours at $280; $7,700 is 28. 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 Wisconsin's own recorded figures, $10,550 buys 5 matters at the $2,100 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 Wisconsincourt'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.