Humanitarian

I-821D Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Request for Deferred Action

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 157,238

October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Quarter approvals 35,648

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 63,303

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 613

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals63,30335,648613157,2381.9 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.

Request for Deferred Action

Latest published median: 1.9 months.

Request for Renewal of Deferred Action

Latest published median: 2.8 months.

Request for Initial Deferred Action

Latest published median: 5.9 months.

Legacy quarterly series

Older inventory movement

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

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 2019102,99897,3251,23250,930
Q3 201998,117100,3021,14547,876
Q4 201992,604100,9041,18938,595
Q1 202072,37774,1241,04036,031
Q2 202078,92764,3471,20449,641
Q3 2020105,474113,72496434,457
Q4 202078,47142,47380354,340
Q1 202169,25690,35197532,395
Service-center coverage

3 mapped centers

Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-821D

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
  • Request for Deferred Action learn more. to see belowService request date Not published

Nebraska Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

1 entries
  • Renewal3.5-3 monthsService request date January 17, 2022

Vermont Service Center

Published Mar 29, 2022

2 entries
  • Renewal3.5-3 monthsService request date January 17, 2022
  • Request for Deferred Action learn more. to see belowService request date Not published
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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