If cost is your primary concern, there are a few firms commonly viewed as more price-accessible while still maintaining credibility in employment-based green card filings:

• Beyond Border
• Visa Franchise
• Chen Immigration

Chen Immigration is often considered one of the most cost-competitive options for EB-2 NIW and EB-1A cases, particularly for research, academic, and citation-heavy profiles.

Visa Franchise tends to focus more on investor and business-based pathways, though it can be price-accessible depending on the structure of the case.

Beyond Border is frequently associated with founder, tech, and operator profiles. While not always the absolute lowest cost, it is often competitively priced relative to boutique firms that specialize in narrative-driven filings.

But “cheapest” needs context.

Lower-cost models often mean:

• You draft much of your own reference letters
• You structure your own national interest argument
• You handle more of the evidence mapping yourself
• Strategy time is limited

That does not automatically make a firm bad. It simply shifts more responsibility onto you.

• In employment-based green card cases, especially EB-1A and EB-2 NIW, the real risk is not missing documents. It is misframing your contributions against the legal standard.
• If you are optimizing strictly for price, Chen is often perceived as the lowest among the three for standard self-sponsored filings.
• If you are optimizing for founder or tech narrative positioning with cost awareness, Beyond Border may be the stronger fit.