I-129F Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)

FY2026 values are partial-year through August 30, 2026. These medians use a different methodology from the monthly averages above. USCIS has not published values for every classification.

Source: USCIS historical national medians, verified Nov 2, 2026.

These historical observations end in FY2020 or FY2021, depending on the classification. They are separate from the current workbooks above; missing values are not zero.

I-129F · Fiancée PetitionsView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Fiancée Petitions. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-129F: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-129F · Fiancée Petitions · Historical classification 0: Fiancée Petitions · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	10,302	7,140	3,644	29,990
Q2 2013	11,512	5,312	5,262	33,241
Q3 2013	11,936	13,724	1,998	27,872
Q4 2013	11,610	17,628	3,781	18,969
Q1 2014	11,155	14,245	3,183	13,845
Q2 2014	12,787	8,920	3,302	16,430
Q3 2014	12,856	9,175	1,524	20,111
Q4 2014	11,596	11,223	1,749	19,551
Q1 2015	11,230	11,768	1,933	18,506
Q2 2015	12,175	9,952	1,684	19,799
Q3 2015	13,222	12,932	1,626	19,438
Q4 2015	12,439	15,996	2,010	14,543
Q1 2016	12,446	12,488	1,968	13,069
Q2 2016	13,159	9,700	1,792	15,767
Q3 2016	14,263	10,077	1,653	18,592
Q4 2016	13,017	15,633	2,145	14,385
Q1 2017	12,836	10,179	2,044	15,847
Q2 2017	13,200	6,864	2,604	20,276
Q3 2017	12,315	9,903	2,437	21,021
Q4 2017	11,480	6,052	2,135	24,764
Q1 2018	11,460	5,708	1,991	28,587
Q2 2018	12,321	10,402	2,557	28,224
Q3 2018	12,702	9,053	2,157	30,353
Q4 2018	11,012	9,739	2,747	29,814
Q1 2019	10,334	13,230	2,464	25,249
Q2 2019	11,276	13,603	2,342	21,585
Q3 2019	11,914	12,848	3,139	19,073
Q4 2019	11,750	10,700	2,789	17,973
Q1 2020	11,533	9,023	2,592	18,969
Q2 2020	12,033	9,115	2,741	18,875
Q3 2020	7,073	5,917	1,505	18,789
Q4 2020	8,096	4,470	1,550	21,060
Q1 2021	3,283	4,730	1,275	20,371

Preserved historical export; charts show the last eight available quarters, while the table retains all observations. Missing and suppressed cells remain unavailable. No line is drawn across the gap to current reports.Graph source and mapping audit.

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These values are retained only for historical context and are not current processing estimates.

• Current processing-time estimates in the local snapshot come from cached USCIS API responses published on March 29, 2022. They are included only as legacy context; the primary up-to-date source is the USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data RSS feed and linked quarterly workbooks.