Family Based

I-601A Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence

Quarterly and historical sources

Sources checked Nov 2, 2026.

Latest official release Sep 8, 2026.

2026 Q3

Latest quarterly statistics

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

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Quarter pending 77,755

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Quarter approvals 3,556

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 9,993

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 576

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver9,9933,55657677,75525.4 months
Published quarterly history

Quarterly count graphs

Published quarterly counts: I-601A: all published classifications. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-601A: approved and denied case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-601A: pending inventory and received case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-601A · I-601A: all published classifications · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 202510,36014,6451,67573,373
Q1 20269,3289,0991,11572,504
Q2 20268,5458,17192171,985
Q3 20269,9933,55657677,755

Published counts are reproduced by reporting period. Missing or suppressed values are unavailable, never zero.Graph source and mapping audit.

Separate approval-share percentage chart — approvals divided by approvals plus denials; excludes other completions and does not predict an individual outcome.

Historical medians

National median processing time by fiscal year

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.

Provisional Waiver of INA 212(a)(9)(B)

FY2026 median: 24.4 months.

FY2021
17.1 months
FY2022
31.7 months
FY2023
43 months
FY2024
41.2 months
FY2025
29.7 months
FY2026
24.4 months
Preserved statistical export

Historical counts by classification

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-601A · Provisional WaiversView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Provisional Waivers. Q2 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-601A: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

I-601A · Provisional Waivers: approved and denied case counts for Q2 2013–Q1 2021 (historical only)
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-601A · Provisional Waivers: pending inventory and received case counts for Q2 2013–Q1 2021 (historical only)
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-601A · Provisional Waivers · Historical classification 0: Provisional Waivers · historical export
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 20131,152Not publishedNot published1,151
Q3 20138,982284379,416
Q4 20138,9514,1982,19412,254
Q1 20148,1234,6411,80514,071
Q2 20147,2704,1232,37215,132
Q3 201410,6816,4302,27417,544
Q4 201411,51812,2394,76612,214
Q1 201513,0359,2323,62512,597
Q2 201511,0978,0373,77912,012
Q3 201512,4108,5783,20412,888
Q4 201512,1928,5492,47414,447
Q1 201612,1939,1322,02415,741
Q2 201612,5387,5861,64519,331
Q3 201613,5434,8721,58627,317
Q4 201612,93911,7011,53727,822
Q1 201718,12715,44094429,757
Q2 201717,72920,66982926,373
Q3 201715,28317,48085723,776
Q4 201714,59015,04770122,711
Q1 201815,16615,84372521,464
Q2 201814,39910,62563822,367
Q3 201815,9855,73840933,728
Q4 201815,1989,37454339,095
Q1 201912,74211,65775939,439
Q2 201912,63111,59682839,492
Q3 201913,89311,39780140,431
Q4 201913,24011,44293941,428
Q1 202012,9489,93775843,798
Q2 202011,9595,53044250,487
Q3 202010,5665,39023255,421
Q4 202014,0182,65126266,509
Q1 202116,2454,47047076,993

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.

Archived office coverage

2 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-601A

Legacy cached estimates

March 2022 office snapshots

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

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence30-23 monthsService request date November 17, 2019

Potomac Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence43-33.5 monthsService request date October 08, 2018
Data notes

How to read this page

  • 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.
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