I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker

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-140 · Immigrant Petition for Alien WorkersView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-140: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-140 · Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers · Historical classification 0: Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	23,506	19,712	1,989	24,079
Q2 2013	17,105	20,823	1,890	19,591
Q3 2013	15,609	20,121	2,398	12,860
Q4 2013	13,701	15,094	2,138	11,465
Q1 2014	14,566	10,393	1,759	15,166
Q2 2014	17,879	10,930	1,593	24,595
Q3 2014	24,254	20,490	1,924	27,175
Q4 2014	24,959	20,482	2,041	30,430
Q1 2015	23,188	20,382	1,813	36,177
Q2 2015	24,079	24,796	1,875	36,117
Q3 2015	23,698	27,047	1,631	32,973
Q4 2015	27,930	27,252	1,829	34,957
Q1 2016	32,739	24,395	1,736	43,509
Q2 2016	34,234	34,341	2,085	43,124
Q3 2016	39,933	37,090	2,418	44,384
Q4 2016	40,675	34,935	2,485	48,801
Q1 2017	38,209	30,852	2,032	56,105
Q2 2017	32,834	32,365	2,568	55,580
Q3 2017	36,632	33,426	2,266	58,254
Q4 2017	31,891	29,530	2,589	58,492
Q1 2018	27,581	27,753	2,488	56,700
Q2 2018	27,773	35,808	3,161	47,573
Q3 2018	34,931	34,177	3,533	45,888
Q4 2018	46,300	37,915	3,384	49,820
Q1 2019	38,693	39,999	3,118	47,821
Q2 2019	28,618	35,459	3,458	39,080
Q3 2019	34,684	33,953	2,798	34,822
Q4 2019	40,456	36,946	3,140	42,188
Q1 2020	33,077	30,578	2,683	45,078
Q2 2020	25,833	29,977	3,064	40,428
Q3 2020	29,469	23,323	1,798	47,334
Q4 2020	39,799	34,094	2,084	51,012
Q1 2021	26,032	25,166	2,667	47,096

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.

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.