Family Based

I-130 Petition for Alien Relative

Immediate Relative

10 official USCIS report s

Latest official report date: Mar 25, 2026

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

Quarter pending 801,745

July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Quarter approvals 232,609

Latest published workbook

Quarter receipts 173,595

Latest published workbook

Quarter processing time 13.7 months

Workbook processing months

Trendline

Annual and quarterly movement

Annual processing months

Immediate Relative 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 166,264 157,587 14,718 1,546,378
Q3 2019 196,601 173,245 16,089 1,571,173
Q4 2019 203,727 209,481 28,650 1,564,880
Q1 2020 231,143 192,451 21,933 1,570,512
Q2 2020 203,236 199,806 25,267 1,543,183
Q3 2020 110,547 199,432 34,278 1,452,157
Q4 2020 167,118 141,871 25,728 1,472,788
Q1 2021 149,173 163,689 19,259 1,490,690
Service-center coverage

5 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-130

Legacy cached estimates

Older office-specific processing snapshots

California Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

6 subtype entries
  • Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21 30-23 months Service request date November 18, 2019
  • U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21 8.5-6.5 months Service request date September 02, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 59-45.5 months Service request date June 17, 2017
  • Permanent resident filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 79-60.5 months Service request date October 21, 2015
  • U.S. citizen filing for a married son or daughter over 21 146.5-113 months Service request date February 24, 2010
  • U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister 177.5-136.5 months Service request date July 30, 2007

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

6 subtype entries
  • Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21 7-5 months Service request date October 07, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21 7-5 months Service request date October 07, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 10-7.5 months Service request date July 20, 2021
  • Permanent resident filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 66.5-51 months Service request date October 28, 2016
  • U.S. citizen filing for a married son or daughter over 21 133-102.5 months Service request date April 20, 2011
  • U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister 160.5-123.5 months Service request date December 26, 2008

Potomac Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

6 subtype entries
  • Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21 36.5-28 months Service request date April 25, 2019
  • U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21 13-10 months Service request date April 09, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 36.5-28 months Service request date April 25, 2019
  • Permanent resident filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 36.5-28 months Service request date April 25, 2019
  • U.S. citizen filing for a married son or daughter over 21 36.5-28 months Service request date April 25, 2019
  • U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister 36.5-28 months Service request date April 25, 2019

Texas Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

6 subtype entries
  • Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21 22.5-17.5 months Service request date June 27, 2020
  • U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21 14.5-11 months Service request date March 03, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 22.5-17.5 months Service request date June 27, 2020
  • Permanent resident filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 22.5-17.5 months Service request date June 27, 2020
  • U.S. citizen filing for a married son or daughter over 21 22.5-17.5 months Service request date June 27, 2020
  • U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister 22.5-17.5 months Service request date June 27, 2020

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

6 subtype entries
  • Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21 33.5-26 months Service request date July 29, 2019
  • U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21 16-12 months Service request date January 16, 2021
  • U.S. citizen filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 72-55.5 months Service request date May 11, 2016
  • Permanent resident filing for an unmarried son or daughter over 21 66.5-51.5 months Service request date October 22, 2016
  • U.S. citizen filing for a married son or daughter over 21 72-55.5 months Service request date May 20, 2016
  • U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister 123-95 months Service request date February 06, 2012
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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