Humanitarian

I-821 Application for Temporary Protected Status

All applicable extensions

9 official USCIS report s

Latest official report date: Mar 24, 2026

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

Quarter pending 1,173,699

July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Quarter approvals 9,318

Latest published workbook

Quarter receipts 183,767

Latest published workbook

Quarter processing time 7 months

Workbook processing months

Trendline

Annual and quarterly movement

Annual processing months

All applicable extensions 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 674 4,755 662 7,679
Q3 2019 1,440 1,371 454 7,544
Q4 2019 1,954 1,670 330 7,712
Q1 2020 6,723 2,201 266 12,061
Q2 2020 4,948 6,488 227 10,695
Q3 2020 1,423 3,665 146 8,407
Q4 2020 517 1,001 174 2,800
Q1 2021 1,129 606 129 3,347
Service-center coverage

3 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-821

Legacy cached estimates

Older office-specific processing snapshots

California Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

2 subtype entries
  • Haiti initial or late filing 5-3 months Service request date December 05, 2021
  • Haiti extension 5-3 months Service request date December 05, 2021

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

4 subtype entries
  • El Salvador extension 13.5-10.5 months Service request date March 24, 2021
  • El Salvador initial or late filing 13.5-10.5 months Service request date March 24, 2021
  • Honduras and Nicaragua extension 13.5-10.5 months Service request date March 24, 2021
  • Honduras and Nicaragua initial or late filing 13.5-10.5 months Service request date March 24, 2021

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

4 subtype entries
  • El Salvador extension 11-8.5 months Service request date June 10, 2021
  • El Salvador initial or late filing 11-8.5 months Service request date June 10, 2021
  • Honduras and Nicaragua extension 11-8.5 months Service request date June 10, 2021
  • Honduras and Nicaragua initial or late filing 11-8.5 months Service request date June 10, 2021
Data notes

What to know before using this page

  • Annual processing-month history for select classifications is refreshed from the official USCIS Historical Processing Times Trends factsheet (data as of March 5, 2024).
  • 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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