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How long USCIS takes is a moving number that depends on your form and your service center. Here is how to read it.
How to read them
The official processing times tool shows how long recent cases took for your form at your service center. It is the source worth trusting — check your form there.
Published times describe cases that recently finished. Your case is filed into the future, so treat every number as a range, not a date.
Service centers carry different workloads, so one form can take twice as long in one office as another. This is why we do not print one number on every page.
A Request for Evidence stops the clock while you answer it. The single thing in your control is filing complete — which is exactly what the software checks before your packet is marked ready.
Your free eligibility check includes the current typical timeline for a case like yours, alongside your forms and government fees.
The numbers
USCIS national median, FY 2026 (October 2025 – July 2026)Checked September 23, 2026Official source ↗
| Form | Case type | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Family petitions | ||
| I-130 | Immediate relative — spouse, parent, or child of a U.S. citizen | 12.9months |
| I-485 | Family-based green card application | 6.0months |
| I-129F | Fiancé petition, all classifications | 8.0months |
| I-751 | Removing conditions on a marriage green card | 22.7months |
| Work petitions | ||
| I-140 | Employment-based immigrant petition | 3.7months |
| I-140 | With premium processing | 1.1months |
| I-485 | Employment-based green card application | 5.9months |
| Work permits and travel | ||
| I-765 | Work permit with a pending green card application | 5.8months |
| I-765 | Work permit with a pending asylum application | 0.7months |
| I-765 | Work permit, all other categories | 3.9months |
| I-131 | Advance parole | 6.0months |
| I-131 | Re-entry permits and other travel documents | 14.9months |
| I-90 | Renewing or replacing a green card | 7.1months |
| I-102 | Replacing an I-94 arrival record | 6.8months |
| Humanitarian | ||
| I-360 | Special immigrant petitions, all classifications | 6.2months |
| I-914 | T visa | 28.7months |
| I-918 | U visa, to bona fide determination review | 19.3months |
| I-485 | Green card based on asylum granted a year ago | 19.7months |
| I-485 | Green card based on refugee admission | 7.8months |
| I-821 | Temporary Protected Status | 13.0months |
| I-821D | DACA renewal | 3.5months |
| Citizenship | ||
| N-400 | Naturalization | 7.2months |
| N-565 | Replacing a citizenship certificate | 7.4months |
| N-600 | Certificate of citizenship | 5.5months |
| N-600K | Citizenship for a child living abroad | 6.2months |
| Waivers and follow-ups | ||
| I-601A | Provisional unlawful presence waiver | 24.3months |
| I-601 + | Other inadmissibility waivers, as a group (incl. I-212) | 35.9months |
| I-824 | Action on an approved petition | 7.1months |
A median means half of cases finished faster and half slower — nationally, across every office. Your own office can run faster or slower than the median, which is why the official per-office tool is still the number to check before you plan around a date.
The lookup
The official tool asks for a form, not a petition. Here is the translation — look up each form your case includes, at the official USCIS tool.
USCIS is the only official source for this data. The medians above are its official national history, carried here with their date — and the per-office tool is where the current number for your office lives.
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