I-730 Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition

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-730 · Refugee/Asylee Relative PetitionsView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Refugee/Asylee Relative Petitions. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-730: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

USCIS expanded FY2026 I-730 counts to include domestic and overseas adjudications; earlier quarters have different coverage.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-730 · Refugee/Asylee Relative Petitions · Historical classification 0: Refugee/Asylee Relative Petitions · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	4,337	3,391	547	7,973
Q2 2013	4,543	5,225	652	7,016
Q3 2013	5,137	4,091	853	7,714
Q4 2013	4,441	4,264	763	7,445
Q1 2014	4,139	3,706	700	7,837
Q2 2014	4,236	3,385	694	8,402
Q3 2014	4,062	2,482	750	9,341
Q4 2014	4,331	2,789	722	9,876
Q1 2015	4,103	2,901	767	10,559
Q2 2015	3,955	2,776	572	11,051
Q3 2015	3,981	3,220	808	10,896
Q4 2015	3,717	3,536	834	10,152
Q1 2016	3,979	3,418	629	10,517
Q2 2016	3,183	4,431	846	9,189
Q3 2016	3,392	3,254	826	8,740
Q4 2016	3,154	3,032	719	7,420
Q1 2017	3,434	2,187	547	8,346
Q2 2017	3,151	2,393	428	9,515
Q3 2017	3,026	2,075	388	9,678
Q4 2017	3,420	2,168	446	10,178
Q1 2018	3,206	1,700	412	10,598
Q2 2018	3,193	1,003	307	9,241
Q3 2018	3,900	1,360	283	10,931
Q4 2018	3,618	1,263	250	12,012
Q1 2019	3,681	1,640	307	13,119
Q2 2019	3,491	1,488	256	14,288
Q3 2019	4,114	1,935	323	17,764
Q4 2019	4,321	1,550	229	20,913
Q1 2020	4,178	1,551	162	23,288
Q2 2020	4,187	1,404	194	23,168
Q3 2020	1,892	885	122	24,513
Q4 2020	2,695	835	128	25,994
Q1 2021	2,411	1,207	144	26,113

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.