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I-918 Petition for U Non-immigrant Status

Provide temporary immigration benefits to an alien who is a victim of qualifying criminal activity, and their qualifying family

USCIS form page Check official case estimates
Quarterly and historical sources

Sources checked Nov 2, 2026.

Latest official release Sep 9, 2026.

2026 Q3

Latest quarterly statistics

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

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Quarter pending 480,114

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Quarter approvals 4,476

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 15,170

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 2,039

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status15,1704,4762,039480,11415.2 months
Published quarterly history

Quarterly count graphs

Published quarterly counts: I-918: all published classifications. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-918: 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-918: 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-918 · I-918: all published classifications · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 20257,4503,7902,032421,782
Q1 20267,8844,8411,831433,470
Q2 202616,2564,2582,429461,200
Q3 202615,1704,4762,039480,114

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.

Provide temporary immigration benefits to an alien who is a victim of qualifying criminal activity, and their qualifying family

FY2026 median: 19.8 months.

FY2021
53.6 months
FY2022
59 months
FY2023
57.5 months
FY2024
46.1 months
FY2025
26.3 months
FY2026
19.8 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-918 · Petition for U Nonimmigrant StatusView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-918: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

I-918 · Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status: 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-918 · Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status: 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-918 · Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status · Historical classification 0: Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status · historical export
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q1 201311,2215,85579941,165
Q2 201311,1732,55585848,620
Q3 201310,9875,87475152,930
Q4 201310,3143,94486158,496
Q1 201410,65116,5781,11651,536
Q2 201410,1941,1062,24558,510
Q3 201411,8105311,88168,195
Q4 201412,6133051,83179,009
Q1 201513,08716,67297574,769
Q2 201512,7765531,39785,922
Q3 201512,8982781,14097,595
Q4 201513,9051911,168110,303
Q1 201614,45316,040297108,623
Q2 201614,326670931121,659
Q3 201615,335604999135,641
Q4 201616,596623934150,561
Q1 201713,7204,893483160,347
Q2 201715,5775,415906168,811
Q3 201716,1326,8361,145177,340
Q4 201716,2575821,236190,361
Q1 201814,8244,791908201,279
Q2 201815,3127,2361,061208,813
Q3 201815,7825,3011,268218,077
Q4 201812,7463821,252229,230
Q1 201913,2836,7721,023236,180
Q2 201911,4855,2791,304241,146
Q3 201912,1925,4431,332246,788
Q4 201910,2653621,471255,495
Q1 20209,8306,1441,588257,837
Q2 20205,8636,6721,624257,104
Q3 20208,4653,619971261,130
Q4 202010,8198301,249270,074
Q1 20218,8659,1071,606268,699

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

2 mapped centers

NSC · Nebraska Service CenterESC · Vermont Service Center
Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-918

Legacy cached estimates

March 2022 office snapshots

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

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Petition for a noncitizen who is a victim of qualifying criminal activity, and their qualifying family members (Time from Initial Filing to Bona Fide Determination (BFD) Review)63.5-59.5 monthsService request date January 19, 2017

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Petition for a noncitizen who is a victim of qualifying criminal activity, and their qualifying family members (Time from Initial Filing to Bona Fide Determination (BFD) Review)63.5-59.5 monthsService request date January 19, 2017
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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