Form N-600

Application for Certificate of Citizenship

Processing Statistics

Application for recognition of U.S. citizenship

Basic Visa Info

Visa Official Name: Application for Certificate of Citizenship
Visa Filing Types:

Application for recognition of U.S. citizenship

Check Visa Status

Service Request Date and Estimated Time

Service Center Form Type	Estimated Processing Time Service Request Date	Type Info

Determine your service center using the first 3 characters of your receipt number. If your receipt date is before the "Service Request Date" listed for your service center and form type, you can submit a service request due to “outside normal processing time” here.
Last Update:

Historical Average Processing Times

2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
- days	6 mo	6.3 mo	5.9 mo	7.1 mo	9.5 mo	8.4 mo	8.4 mo	5.8 mo

Form N-600 USCIS Approval Rate and Backlog

Historic Approval Rate

Application for Certificate of Citizenship/Issuance of Certificate [Accepted / Denied]

Historic approval and denial rate for Application for Certificate of Citizenship/Issuance of Certificate (Form N-600)

Submission Rate and Backlog

Application for Certificate of Citizenship/Issuance of Certificate [Pending Backlog / New Submission]

Historic backlog of yet to be processed cases and new submissions for Application for Certificate of Citizenship/Issuance of Certificate (Form N-600)

Data may include combined N-600/N-600K for some quarters

Includes N-600K, Application for Citizenship and Issuance of Certificate Under Section 322.

Fiscal year begins October 1 and ends September 30 of the reporting period. Data sources include USCIS, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Performance Reporting Tool (PRT), USCIS Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) and C3 Consolidated