I-821 Application for Temporary Protected Status

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-821 · Temporary Protected StatusView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Temporary Protected Status. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-821: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-821 · Temporary Protected Status · Historical classification 0: Temporary Protected Status · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	46,834	12,633	1,063	42,770
Q2 2013	7,299	30,788	1,451	17,128
Q3 2013	121,303	31,042	2,608	105,284
Q4 2013	152,586	212,959	2,276	51,162
Q1 2014	2,703	39,661	2,292	13,119
Q2 2014	6,692	6,450	2,590	10,360
Q3 2014	41,163	25,521	1,172	25,986
Q4 2014	4,059	23,205	1,556	5,527
Q1 2015	58,780	3,028	1,228	60,679
Q2 2015	206,324	31,719	693	234,703
Q3 2015	5,746	168,210	852	72,417
Q4 2015	15,184	55,765	1,111	31,068
Q1 2016	47,025	19,199	2,485	54,094
Q2 2016	4,299	24,192	2,058	32,530
Q3 2016	39,987	22,455	1,402	48,559
Q4 2016	211,300	121,675	1,391	137,001
Q1 2017	13,912	83,516	1,288	66,034
Q2 2017	5,557	54,944	1,814	15,280
Q3 2017	21,067	8,297	2,124	25,824
Q4 2017	20,712	16,336	974	29,772
Q1 2018	9,550	10,071	785	28,898
Q2 2018	201,467	47,469	815	176,733
Q3 2018	21,217	136,916	980	70,507
Q4 2018	27,982	63,819	1,440	32,261
Q1 2019	1,517	26,809	1,048	12,287
Q2 2019	674	4,755	662	7,679
Q3 2019	1,440	1,371	454	7,544
Q4 2019	1,954	1,670	330	7,712
Q1 2020	6,723	2,201	266	12,061
Q2 2020	4,948	6,488	227	10,695
Q3 2020	1,423	3,665	146	8,407
Q4 2020	517	1,001	174	2,800
Q1 2021	1,129	606	129	3,347

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.