I-600A Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition

Published combined group: Combined I-600 + I-600A; standalone counts are not published. These counts cannot be attributed to I-600A alone.

USCIS publishes this form within the combined group shown in the graphs below; no standalone row is published.

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-600 + I-600A · Orphan PetitionsView historical counts

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

Combined group retained: I-600 + I-600A. No standalone counts are inferred.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-600 + I-600A · Orphan Petitions · Historical classification 0: Orphan Petitions · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	1,917	2,081	165	665
Q2 2013	2,311	2,459	257	874
Q3 2013	2,473	2,298	210	780
Q4 2013	2,369	2,323	180	729
Q1 2014	2,101	1,939	132	970
Q2 2014	2,193	1,820	126	1,200
Q3 2014	1,861	1,799	184	1,075
Q4 2014	1,588	1,362	176	1,108
Q1 2015	947	958	157	626
Q2 2015	930	821	211	523
Q3 2015	844	791	141	462
Q4 2015	781	695	129	441
Q1 2016	823	977	153	556
Q2 2016	613	817	138	612
Q3 2016	885	794	110	575
Q4 2016	879	819	100	493
Q1 2017	729	619	89	441
Q2 2017	847	655	94	505
Q3 2017	739	640	84	472
Q4 2017	607	516	73	515
Q1 2018	587	471	65	521
Q2 2018	572	530	80	427
Q3 2018	595	496	71	398
Q4 2018	530	484	52	364
Q1 2019	508	352	44	434
Q2 2019	482	383	45	428
Q3 2019	540	453	43	350
Q4 2019	509	393	59	351
Q1 2020	380	343	54	342
Q2 2020	409	331	64	422
Q3 2020	288	144	33	569
Q4 2020	238	302	59	637
Q1 2021	206	287	41	532

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.