Family Based

I-601A Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence

4 official USCIS report s

Latest official report date: Mar 23, 2026

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

Quarter pending 73,373

July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Quarter approvals 14,645

Latest published workbook

Quarter receipts 10,360

Latest published workbook

Quarter processing time 25.2 months

Workbook processing months

Trendline

Annual and quarterly movement

Annual processing months

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence 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 12,631 11,596 828 39,492
Q3 2019 13,893 11,397 801 40,431
Q4 2019 13,240 11,442 939 41,428
Q1 2020 12,948 9,937 758 43,798
Q2 2020 11,959 5,530 442 50,487
Q3 2020 10,566 5,390 232 55,421
Q4 2020 14,018 2,651 262 66,509
Q1 2021 16,245 4,470 470 76,993
Service-center coverage

2 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-601A

Legacy cached estimates

Older office-specific processing snapshots

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 subtype entries
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence 30-23 months Service request date November 17, 2019

Potomac Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 subtype entries
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence 43-33.5 months Service request date October 08, 2018
Data notes

What to know before using this page

  • 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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