I-817 Application for Family Unity Benefits

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-817 · Family Unity ApplicationsView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Family Unity Applications. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-817: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-817 · Family Unity Applications · Historical classification 0: Family Unity Applications · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	572	403	30	608
Q2 2013	732	471	30	884
Q3 2013	594	620	22	838
Q4 2013	480	608	20	690
Q1 2014	441	306	Not published	738
Q2 2014	606	205	16	1,117
Q3 2014	572	308	11	1,384
Q4 2014	448	296	13	1,503
Q1 2015	342	439	20	1,357
Q2 2015	409	646	17	1,090
Q3 2015	411	810	25	688
Q4 2015	282	270	47	673
Q1 2016	173	240	30	589
Q2 2016	204	382	15	404
Q3 2016	269	340	22	303
Q4 2016	270	206	23	367
Q1 2017	324	43	14	612
Q2 2017	465	60	Not published	994
Q3 2017	369	254	62	1,059
Q4 2017	198	115	18	1,121
Q1 2018	213	97	10	1,172
Q2 2018	247	357	16	1,096
Q3 2018	169	429	39	850
Q4 2018	78	265	53	578
Q1 2019	68	174	33	445
Q2 2019	118	106	45	405
Q3 2019	78	135	35	261
Q4 2019	76	116	31	190
Q1 2020	111	55	18	245
Q2 2020	154	102	21	296
Q3 2020	157	106	12	335
Q4 2020	127	50	13	399
Q1 2021	55	194	14	246

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.