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I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker

Non-Immigrant Petition (Premium filed)

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4 official USCIS report s

Latest official report date: Dec 17, 2024

Latest quarter workbook: July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025.

Quarter pending 150,876

July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Quarter approvals 140,496

Latest published workbook

Quarter receipts 140,984

Latest published workbook

Quarter processing time 3.6 months

Workbook processing months

Trendline

Annual and quarterly movement

Annual processing months

Non-Immigrant Petition (Premium filed) across the USCIS annual median processing-time series, preferring the official FY2016-FY2024 historical factsheet where USCIS publishes it and falling back to the pulled legacy export elsewhere.

Last eight quarters pending

Pending inventory from the quarterly all-forms report.

Latest quarters

Quarter Received Approved Denied Pending
Q2 2019 101,228 111,648 31,438 101,882
Q3 2019 241,149 147,150 26,216 180,469
Q4 2019 120,853 145,460 30,400 129,129
Q1 2020 106,417 120,669 41,295 103,891
Q2 2020 113,978 122,956 41,811 92,377
Q3 2020 166,572 121,725 21,187 127,747
Q4 2020 164,940 171,351 20,815 107,150
Q1 2021 88,378 114,122 17,524 77,910
Service-center coverage

4 mapped centers

NSC · Nebraska Service Center ESC · Vermont Service Center CSC · California Service Center SSC · Texas Service Center
Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-129

Legacy cached estimates

Older office-specific processing snapshots

California Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

13 subtype entries
  • Blanket L 4 months to 5 weeks Service request date January 04, 2022
  • E - Treaty traders and investors 7-5 months Service request date October 05, 2021
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Visa to be issued abroad 9.5-7.5 months Service request date July 22, 2021
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Change of status in the U.S. 9.5-7.5 months Service request date July 22, 2021
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Extension of stay in the U.S. 9.5-7.5 months Service request date July 22, 2021
  • H-2A - Temporary workers 2.5 months to 2 weeks Service request date April 19, 2022
  • H-2B - Other temporary workers 3 months to 5 weeks Service request date February 03, 2022
  • H-3 - Temporary trainees 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • L - Intracompany transfers 3 months to 5 weeks Service request date February 03, 2022
  • O - Extraordinary ability 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • P - Athletes, artists, and entertainers 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • Q - Cultural exchange visitors and exchange visitors participating in the Irish Peace process 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • R - Religious occupation 10-7.5 months Service request date July 12, 2021

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 subtype entries
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Extension of stay in the U.S. 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022

Texas Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

4 subtype entries
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Visa to be issued abroad 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Change of status in the U.S. 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Extension of stay in the U.S. 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • L - Intracompany transfers 7-5 months Service request date October 14, 2021

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

13 subtype entries
  • Blanket L 4 months to 1 month Service request date January 04, 2022
  • E3 - Certain specialty occupation professionals from Australia 4.5-2.5 months Service request date December 31, 2021
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Visa to be issued abroad 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Change of status in the U.S. 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • H-1B - Specialty occupation - Extension of stay in the U.S. 6.5-4.5 months Service request date October 22, 2021
  • H-2B - Other temporary workers 3 months to 5 weeks Service request date February 03, 2022
  • H-3 - Temporary trainees 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • L - Intracompany transfers 3 months to 1 month Service request date February 03, 2022
  • O - Extraordinary ability 3 months to 5 weeks Service request date February 04, 2022
  • P - Athletes, artists, and entertainers 3 months to 5 weeks Service request date February 04, 2022
  • Q - Cultural exchange visitors and exchange visitors participating in the Irish Peace process 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
  • R - Religious occupation 7-2 months Service request date October 06, 2021
  • TN - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) professional 4-2 months Service request date January 04, 2022
Data notes

What to know before using this page

  • Annual processing-month history for select classifications is refreshed from the official USCIS Historical Processing Times Trends factsheet (data as of March 5, 2024).
  • 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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