Humanitarian

I-821D Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Request for Deferred Action

Quarterly and historical sources

Sources checked Nov 2, 2026.

Latest official release Not published.

2026 Q3

Latest quarterly statistics

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Open USCIS workbook
Quarter pending 228,969

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Quarter approvals 76,158

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 81,975

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 471

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals81,97576,158471228,9694.1 months
Published quarterly history

Quarterly count graphs

Published quarterly counts: I-821D: all published classifications. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-821D: 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-821D: 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-821D · I-821D: all published classifications · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 202564,79564,279749130,064
Q1 202663,30335,648613157,238
Q2 202684,85718,220418223,522
Q3 202681,97576,158471228,969

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.

Request for Initial Deferred Action

FY2026 median: Not published.

FY2021
5.9 months
FY2022
Not published
FY2023
Not published
FY2024
Not published
FY2025
Not published
FY2026
Not published

Request for Renewal of Deferred Action

FY2026 median: 3.7 months.

FY2021
1.8 months
FY2022
0.5 months
FY2023
1 months
FY2024
1.8 months
FY2025
0.5 months
FY2026
3.7 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-821D · Deferred Action for Childhood ArrivalsView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

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

Approved and denied counts

I-821D · Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: approved and denied case counts for Q1 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-821D · Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: pending inventory and received case counts for Q1 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-821D · Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals · Historical classification 0: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals · historical export
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q1 2013232,985123,600100252,781
Q2 201390,513219,0431,335199,700
Q3 201365,684132,8154,244454,449
Q4 201343,12573,8356,09592,417
Q1 201436,75147,6284,66573,200
Q2 201435,19031,4734,33669,197
Q3 201448,99727,7243,65080,477
Q4 2014141,98551,5138,634152,795
Q1 2015152,541155,0346,343137,687
Q2 2015157,593118,7955,146156,073
Q3 2015109,165152,8595,77799,526
Q4 201565,02085,2494,30171,037
Q1 201647,37655,8864,14357,284
Q2 201650,30339,4353,31364,839
Q3 201686,16528,8453,770118,326
Q4 201676,88174,9183,498119,934
Q1 2017110,186121,9192,720105,526
Q2 2017132,784124,7004,137124,437
Q3 201794,562102,5093,70599,077
Q4 2017135,341113,5852,63182,612
Q1 201829,52798,6052,52045,704
Q2 201864,50155,0153,87551,237
Q3 201867,10578,9502,92136,406
Q4 201898,99687,2993,14444,875
Q1 201992,47389,4871,42146,499
Q2 2019102,99897,3251,23250,930
Q3 201998,117100,3021,14547,876
Q4 201992,604100,9041,18938,595
Q1 202072,37774,1241,04036,031
Q2 202078,92764,3471,20449,641
Q3 2020105,474113,72496434,457
Q4 202078,47142,47380354,340
Q1 202169,25690,35197532,395

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

3 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-821D

No form-specific report is currently indexed from the USCIS RSS feed.

Legacy cached estimates

March 2022 office snapshots

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

California Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Request for Deferred Action learn more. to see belowService request date Not published

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Renewal3.5-3 monthsService request date January 17, 2022

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

2 entries
  • Renewal3.5-3 monthsService request date January 17, 2022
  • Request for Deferred Action learn more. to see belowService request date Not published
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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