Humanitarian and Waivers

I-601 Form I-601

Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility

Quarterly and historical sources

Dataset updated Jul 25, 2026.

Latest official release Not published.

FY2026 Q1

Latest all-forms quarter

Open USCIS workbook
Quarter pending 61,094

October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Quarter approvals 2,079

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 6,475

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 1,211

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility6,4752,0791,21161,094Not published
Historical medians

National median processing time by fiscal year

FY2026 values are partial-year through May 31, 2026. These medians use a different methodology from the monthly averages above.

I-601

Latest published median: 33.8 months.

Legacy quarterly series

Older inventory movement

This series comes from the pulled legacy TSV export and is not presented as current.

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 201917,08011,2673,415207,729
Q3 201918,87612,7083,607210,034
Q4 201918,3138,4344,093215,720
Q1 202017,02611,3723,738217,292
Q2 202014,48812,9944,242210,446
Q3 202013,55010,8983,856209,164
Q4 202017,0906,6333,012216,721
Q1 202114,90112,7313,723215,523
Service-center coverage

1 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-601

No form-specific report is currently indexed from the USCIS RSS feed.

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
  • Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility10.5-8 monthsService request date June 26, 2021
Data notes

How to read this page

  • Quarterly history is published as the combined Waivers group in USCIS legacy exports.
  • 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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