How long USCIS is taking right now, form by form: real receipt-to-decision times from cases we tracked in the last year, next to USCIS's own published median. Updated every day.
| Form | Our median (cases) | USCIS median |
|---|---|---|
| Family | ||
| I-130Family petition | 14.4 months242 cases | 12.8 months |
| I-129FK-1 fiancé visa petition | Not enough yet | 8.2 months |
| I-751Removing conditions on a marriage-based green card | Not enough yet | 22.5 months |
| I-730Refugee or asylee relative petition | Not enough yet | 24.1 months |
| I-601AProvisional unlawful presence waiver | Not enough yet | 24.4 months |
| Green card & citizenship | ||
| I-485Green card application | 5.0 months53 cases | 6.2 months |
| N-400Citizenship application | Not enough yet | 7.4 months |
| N-600Certificate of citizenship | Not enough yet | 5.6 months |
| N-600KCitizenship for a child living abroad | Not enough yet | 6.3 months |
| Work, travel & status | ||
| I-765EAD work permit | 2.8 months65 cases | 4 months |
| I-131Travel document and advance parole | 5.0 months24 cases | 6 months |
| I-539Extending or changing nonimmigrant status | Not enough yet | 3.7 months |
| I-821TPS application | Not enough yet | 13.6 months |
| I-129H-1B and other work visa petitions | 19 days138 cases | 5.1 months |
| Employment & investors | ||
| I-140Employment-based immigrant petition | 4.9 months25 cases | 3.6 months |
| I-526EEB-5 regional center investor petition | Not enough yet | 11.5 months |
| I-829EB-5 investor petition to remove conditions | Not enough yet | 11.1 months |
| I-360Special immigrant petition | Not enough yet | 6.2 months |
| Humanitarian | ||
| I-918U visa for crime victims | Not enough yet | 19.8 months |
| I-914T visa for trafficking victims | Not enough yet | 28.6 months |
| I-817Family Unity benefits | Not enough yet | 3.4 months |
| Adoption | ||
| I-600ANon-Hague adoption advance approval | Not enough yet | 3.6 months |
| I-600Non-Hague orphan adoption petition | Not enough yet | 19.2 months |
| I-800AHague adoption: approval of adoptive parents | Not enough yet | 3.3 months |
| I-800Hague adoption: petition for the child | Not enough yet | 1.6 months |
| Records & replacements | ||
| I-90Green card renewal or replacement | 7.1 months85 cases | 7.4 months |
| N-565Replacement citizenship or naturalization certificate | Not enough yet | 7.3 months |
| I-102Replacement I-94 record | Not enough yet | 7.3 months |
| I-824Action on an approved application or petition | Not enough yet | 6.8 months |
“Our median” is the time within which half of the cases we tracked were decided, over the last 12 months, shown once we have at least 20 decided cases. USCIS figures: USCIS national median, FY2026; some cover only one category of a form, noted on each form's page. I-129 (H-1B) times are on the H-1B processing times page.
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Every figure is a national one. The office handling your case matters a lot: forms decided at local field offices, like the I-485 and N-400, can take months longer in one city than another. Your category matters too: an I-130 for a spouse and one for a sibling are the same form on very different timelines. And a Request for Evidence effectively pauses the clock until USCIS has your response. Each form's page explains what moves its timeline.
Several forms are a step on a longer path. An approved I-130 or I-140 doesn't give status by itself; for many categories the green card waits for a current priority date in the Visa Bulletin. An approved I-129F goes on to the National Visa Center and a consulate. The times here end at USCIS's decision on that form.
Every time someone checks a case on CaseTracker, we keep an anonymous record of the form type, the date USCIS received it and, once it's decided, the decision date. Our figures are the time between those two dates for cases decided in the last 12 months. We publish a form's numbers only once we have at least 20 decided cases.
It's the median: half the cases were decided in that time or less, and half took longer. It's a better guide than an average, which a few very slow cases can drag up.
USCIS's median covers its whole fiscal year and sometimes a single category of a form. Ours covers every case of that form we tracked to a decision in the last 12 months, so it reacts faster when USCIS speeds up or slows down. Both are national figures: your service center or field office, your category and any Request for Evidence can move your case well off either one.
Not on its own. Half of all cases take longer than the median by definition. If yours is well past USCIS's published time, you can submit an outside-normal-processing-time inquiry through USCIS. For decisions about your case, talk to an immigration attorney.
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