Humanitarian

I-730 Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition

Petition for accompanying family members of a refugee or an asylee

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 38,082

October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Quarter approvals 2,382

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 4,226

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 239

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition4,2262,38223938,082Not 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.

Petition for accompanying family members of a refugee or an asylee

Latest published median: 16.3 months.

Petition for "following-to-join" family members (spouse and children) of an asylee

Latest published median: 22.1 months.

Petition for accompanying family members of an asylee

Latest published median: 12.9 months.

Legacy quarterly series

Older inventory movement

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

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 20193,4911,48825614,288
Q3 20194,1141,93532317,764
Q4 20194,3211,55022920,913
Q1 20204,1781,55116223,288
Q2 20204,1871,40419423,168
Q3 20201,89288512224,513
Q4 20202,69583512825,994
Q1 20212,4111,20714426,113
Service-center coverage

2 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-730

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
  • Petition for accompanying family members of an asylee17-13 monthsService request date December 11, 2020

Texas Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Petition for accompanying family members of an asylee30-23 monthsService request date November 19, 2019
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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