October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Humanitarian and Waivers
I-612 Form I-612
Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement (under Section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as Amended)
Quarterly and historical sources
Dataset updated Jul 25, 2026.
Latest official release Not published.
FY2026 Q1
Latest all-forms quarter
All listed classifications
All listed classifications
All listed classifications
| Classification | Received | Approved | Denied | Pending | Processing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement (under Section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as Amended) | 750 | 538 | 227 | 2,035 | Not 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-612
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.
| Quarter | Received | Approved | Denied | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2019 | 17,080 | 11,267 | 3,415 | 207,729 |
| Q3 2019 | 18,876 | 12,708 | 3,607 | 210,034 |
| Q4 2019 | 18,313 | 8,434 | 4,093 | 215,720 |
| Q1 2020 | 17,026 | 11,372 | 3,738 | 217,292 |
| Q2 2020 | 14,488 | 12,994 | 4,242 | 210,446 |
| Q3 2020 | 13,550 | 10,898 | 3,856 | 209,164 |
| Q4 2020 | 17,090 | 6,633 | 3,012 | 216,721 |
| Q1 2021 | 14,901 | 12,731 | 3,723 | 215,523 |
Service-center coverage
2 mapped centers
Official USCIS reports
Recent source documents for I-612
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.
California Service Center
Published Mar 29, 2022
1 entries
California Service Center
Published Mar 29, 2022
- Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution6-4 monthsService request date November 04, 2021
Vermont Service Center
Published Mar 29, 2022
1 entries
Vermont Service Center
Published Mar 29, 2022
- Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement6 months to 3 weeksService request date November 05, 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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