Family Based

I-601A Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence

Quarterly and historical sources

Dataset updated Jul 25, 2026.

Latest official release Jun 12, 2026.

FY2026 Q1

Latest all-forms quarter

Open USCIS workbook
Quarter pending 72,504

October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Quarter approvals 9,099

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 9,328

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 1,115

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver9,3289,0991,11572,50424.1 months
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.

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence

Latest published median: 15.6 months.

Provisional Waiver of INA 212(a)(9)(B)

Latest published median: 24.1 months.

Legacy quarterly series

Older inventory movement

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

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 201912,63111,59682839,492
Q3 201913,89311,39780140,431
Q4 201913,24011,44293941,428
Q1 202012,9489,93775843,798
Q2 202011,9595,53044250,487
Q3 202010,5665,39023255,421
Q4 202014,0182,65126266,509
Q1 202116,2454,47047076,993
Service-center coverage

2 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-601A

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
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence30-23 monthsService request date November 17, 2019

Potomac Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence43-33.5 monthsService request date October 08, 2018
Data notes

How to read this page

  • Historical national median processing times are refreshed from the official USCIS rendered tables. FY2026 is partial-year through May 31, 2026.
  • 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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