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Humanitarian

I-589 Asylum Application

I-589

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1 official USCIS report

Latest official report date: Jan 28, 2025

Latest quarter workbook: Not published.

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Workbook processing months

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Annual processing months

All classifications 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 22,920 5,431 136 327,984
Q3 2019 25,845 5,841 170 330,612
Q4 2019 24,558 4,462 99 339,836
Q1 2020 20,149 3,278 9,280 353,562
Q2 2020 23,192 3,327 11,695 358,419
Q3 2020 25,905 1,546 3,309 373,957
Q4 2020 23,888 2,310 4,532 386,014
Q1 2021 14,206 1,400 4,190 394,101
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Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-589

Contains information on Applications for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal for petitioners who use Form I-589 and on Screening Referrals for Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear. It displays the number of applications and screening referrals received, completed, pending, interview or screening outcomes, and completion outcomes by month during the Reporting Fiscal Year. This report contains the most up to date data; prior reports are located on the USCIS archive page.

I-589
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