I-824 Application for Action on an Approved Application or 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-824 · Action on Approved Applications or PetitionsView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Action on Approved Applications or Petitions. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-824: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-824 · Action on Approved Applications or Petitions · Historical classification 0: Action on Approved Applications or Petitions · historical export

Quarter	Received	Approved	Denied	Pending
Q1 2013	2,264	1,805	313	3,200
Q2 2013	3,141	2,491	511	3,440
Q3 2013	3,664	2,389	502	4,308
Q4 2013	3,158	2,813	680	4,078
Q1 2014	3,072	3,372	682	3,174
Q2 2014	2,807	2,475	550	2,968
Q3 2014	3,166	2,064	405	3,820
Q4 2014	3,106	1,168	175	5,641
Q1 2015	2,969	1,497	266	6,769
Q2 2015	2,799	2,313	365	7,001
Q3 2015	3,128	2,568	444	6,983
Q4 2015	2,731	3,637	709	5,437
Q1 2016	2,847	2,746	712	4,788
Q2 2016	2,384	3,422	616	3,244
Q3 2016	2,864	2,676	466	2,990
Q4 2016	2,793	1,991	370	3,459
Q1 2017	3,058	1,977	351	4,189
Q2 2017	2,709	2,144	453	4,446
Q3 2017	2,933	1,908	359	5,039
Q4 2017	2,794	2,026	409	5,412
Q1 2018	2,766	1,974	410	5,821
Q2 2018	2,441	2,149	404	5,698
Q3 2018	2,952	2,440	444	6,889
Q4 2018	2,735	1,908	508	7,181
Q1 2019	2,683	2,229	345	7,245
Q2 2019	2,430	1,952	433	7,302
Q3 2019	2,708	2,444	423	7,212
Q4 2019	2,669	2,237	537	7,070
Q1 2020	2,605	1,900	476	7,431
Q2 2020	2,503	2,658	536	5,913
Q3 2020	1,831	2,137	339	5,416
Q4 2020	2,586	1,678	370	5,945
Q1 2021	1,768	1,795	291	5,636

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.