USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Office Backlogs

Pending citizenship, green card and family cases at every USCIS field office, how fast each office is deciding them, and how often it approves.

90 field offices · official USCIS quarterly data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices are deciding far fewer citizenship applications. They decided 70,505 N-400s in Apr–Jun 2026, −73% vs a year earlier, while pending cases reached 742,138 (+40% in a year). 76 of 83 offices cut their decisions by half or more.

N-400 pending

742,138

+40% vs a year ago

N-400 decisions · Apr–Jun 2026

70,505

a year earlier: 264,595

N-400 approval rate

81.8%

a year earlier: 91.2%

Green cards (I-485) pending

1,236,979

+20% vs a year ago

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Every USCIS field office

Field office State N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
Houston Texas 31,057 −49% 91.0% 57,601
Dallas Texas 28,662 −65% 92.0% 38,257
Chicago Illinois 23,623 −86% 77.2% 27,863
San Jose California 20,899 −96% 77.7% 23,633
San Antonio Texas 18,999 −75% 93.2% 30,622
San Francisco California 18,645 −93% 84.1% 18,364
Seattle Washington 18,384 −87% 72.9% 24,937
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 17,912 −80% 80.4% 22,054
Newark New Jersey 17,757 −77% 65.4% 20,575
Boston Massachusetts 17,385 −80% 92.1% 18,594
Atlanta Georgia 17,300 −76% 80.4% 25,169
New York New York 17,071 −68% 76.7% 19,076
Baltimore Maryland 16,716 −93% 65.0% 29,254
Tampa Florida 16,330 −72% 85.5% 46,609
Sacramento California 15,918 −83% 76.8% 16,322
Brooklyn New York 15,687 −56% 77.5% 17,028
Washington District of Columbia 14,473 −68% 91.1% 24,295
Santa Ana California 14,054 −64% 91.5% 15,005
Lawrence Massachusetts 14,036 −15% 77.7% 10,855
Orlando Florida 13,964 −75% 74.8% 27,694
Detroit Michigan 12,808 −70% 79.8% 17,738
San Diego California 12,567 −77% 80.2% 15,049
San Bernardino California 12,397 −79% 78.4% 13,668
Los Angeles County California 12,295 −73% 81.8% 16,180
Queens New York 11,953 −80% 53.9% 17,862
Los Angeles California 11,703 −89% 81.2% 20,529
San Fernando Valley California 11,337 −69% 85.2% 13,053
Denver Colorado 11,333 −65% 82.7% 16,746
St. Paul Minnesota 11,279 −88% 74.5% 16,262
Phoenix Arizona 10,819 −68% 90.3% 16,935
Long Island New York 9,878 −63% 72.6% 13,593
Fresno California 9,722 −86% 78.0% 8,523
Kendall Florida 9,546 −75% 82.7% 45,973
Hialeah Florida 8,905 −68% 77.8% 43,153
Hartford Connecticut 8,716 −80% 80.6% 11,190
Portland Oregon 8,599 −85% 90.0% 11,165
New Jersey Central New Jersey 8,437 −66% 85.0% 11,403
Las Vegas Nevada 8,230 −81% 81.0% 17,384
Miami Florida 8,153 −81% 68.3% 28,347
Raleigh North Carolina 7,901 −84% 90.2% 13,053
Charlotte North Carolina 7,643 −58% 84.8% 16,307
Indianapolis Indiana 7,616 −74% 89.2% 12,853
West Palm Beach Florida 7,286 −52% 85.4% 21,492
Fort Myers Florida 6,523 −48% 82.6% 22,561
Buffalo New York 6,459 −66% 77.9% 15,044
Jacksonville Florida 6,351 −70% 79.3% 14,560
Oklahoma City Oklahoma 6,348 −49% 88.1% 10,181
Oakland Park Florida 6,260 −84% 65.3% 15,106
Nashville Tennessee 6,037 −48% 86.5% 10,580
El Paso Texas 5,737 −75% 76.2% 10,932
Salt Lake City Utah 5,615 −68% 84.9% 9,966
Mount Laurel New Jersey 5,537 −72% 78.9% 8,479
Kansas City Missouri 5,174 −72% 80.8% 10,503
Montgomery Alabama 5,043 −69% 92.5% 8,565
Norfolk Virginia 4,291 −66% 93.6% 7,361
Louisville Kentucky 4,176 −69% 73.3% 21,655
Greer South Carolina 4,055 −60% 94.4% 3,823
New Orleans Louisiana 3,967 −83% 45.0% 7,558
Milwaukee Wisconsin 3,934 −78% 84.1% 8,055
Omaha Nebraska 3,840 −70% 86.9% 14,325
Honolulu Hawaii 3,788 −65% 92.4% 2,616
Columbus Ohio 3,622 −61% 77.0% 7,997
Harlingen Texas 3,359 −86% 70.1% 3,331
St. Louis Missouri 3,318 −71% 82.0% 6,290
Charleston South Carolina 3,156 −73% 78.8% 5,974
Des Moines Iowa 3,091 +9% 93.1% 7,685
Cleveland Ohio 2,916 −61% 82.4% 8,741
Albany New York 2,890 −81% 78.2% 4,583
Cincinnati Ohio 2,362 −59% 77.0% 6,968
Memphis Tennessee 2,253 −51% 66.3% 4,911
Tucson Arizona 2,225 −74% 88.2% 3,902
Providence Rhode Island 2,105 −62% 75.1% 3,493
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2,046 −37% 91.9% 5,972
Imperial California 2,042 −73% 63.5% 1,072
Boise Idaho 1,714 −85% 75.7% 3,843
Albuquerque New Mexico 1,672 −87% 73.2% 3,207
Yakima Washington 1,456 −82% 77.3% 2,272
Fort Smith Arkansas 1,322 −54% 88.7% 2,007
Manchester New Hampshire 1,215 −64% 75.1% 2,645
Reno Nevada 1,185 −73% 82.2% 1,571
Wichita Kansas 1,177 −72% 80.6% 3,410
Anchorage Alaska 1,106 — — 1,353
San Juan Puerto Rico 930 −69% 64.2% 1,563
Portland Maine 920 −60% 80.3% 3,620
Spokane Washington 909 — — 2,434
Agana Guam 901 — — 1,237
St. Albans Vermont 485 — — 1,841
Helena Montana 399 — — 746
Charlotte Amalie U.S. Virgin Islands 116 — — 153
Christiansted U.S. Virgin Islands 116 — — 23

Field offices by state

Alabama (1) Alaska (1) Arizona (2) Arkansas (1) California (11) Colorado (1) Connecticut (1) District of Columbia (1) Florida (9) Georgia (1) Guam (1) Hawaii (1) Idaho (1) Illinois (1) Indiana (1) Iowa (1) Kansas (1) Kentucky (1) Louisiana (1) Maine (1) Maryland (1) Massachusetts (2) Michigan (1) Minnesota (1) Missouri (2) Montana (1) Nebraska (1) Nevada (2) New Hampshire (1) New Jersey (3) New Mexico (1) New York (6) North Carolina (2) Ohio (3) Oklahoma (1) Oregon (1) Pennsylvania (2) Puerto Rico (1) Rhode Island (1) South Carolina (2) Tennessee (2) Texas (5) U.S. Virgin Islands (2) Utah (1) Vermont (1) Virginia (1) Washington (3) Wisconsin (1)

Citizenship · all U.S. field offices

Citizenship (N-400)

70,505 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−73%). 742,138 pending at quarter end (+40% vs a year ago). Approval rate 81.8%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 32 months. That is how long the 742,138 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 6.0 months). It is a measure of how far behind the office is, not a prediction for any one case.

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 145,872 57,697 12,808 81.8% 742,138
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 140,767 83,459 15,003 84.8% 660,692
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 241,728 215,891 22,156 90.7% 534,458
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 251,467 241,326 23,269 91.2% 529,018
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 265,688 235,345 22,788 91.2% 536,119
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 241,019 205,488 17,293 92.2% 531,872
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 276,008 205,268 20,500 90.9% 514,866
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 239,520 218,720 21,910 90.9% 462,974
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 195,710 178,997 21,311 89.4% 400,445

USCIS has not published Jan–Mar 2024 or Oct–Dec 2025 data, so those quarters are blank.

Green card · all U.S. field offices

Green card (I-485)

104,286 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−39%). 1,236,979 pending at quarter end (+20% vs a year ago). Approval rate 89.1%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 36 months. That is how long the 1,236,979 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 18 months). It is a measure of how far behind the office is, not a prediction for any one case.

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 213,704 92,964 11,322 89.1% 1,236,979
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 174,017 104,785 8,795 92.3% 1,133,659
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 226,794 194,979 13,234 93.6% 1,016,818
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 259,500 158,807 11,125 93.5% 1,027,484
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 262,064 167,905 11,091 93.8% 986,680
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 250,749 179,392 9,076 95.2% 896,406
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 196,270 201,170 10,815 94.9% 809,281
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 197,754 201,975 9,522 95.5% 831,520
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 220,610 140,493 9,916 93.4% 832,271

USCIS has not published Jan–Mar 2024 or Oct–Dec 2025 data, so those quarters are blank.

Family petitions · all U.S. field offices

Family petitions (I-130)

65,727 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−41%). 2,251,141 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 88.9%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 159,365 58,416 7,311 88.9% 2,251,141 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 50,697 63,627 5,714 91.8% 287,655
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 75,158 124,205 7,460 94.3% 290,595
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 78,558 105,539 6,448 94.2% 320,227
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 80,731 62,051 5,649 91.7% 329,432
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 73,808 70,016 4,175 94.4% 295,675
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 63,161 100,427 5,056 95.2% 279,371
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 72,838 99,405 4,465 95.7% 307,665
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 65,265 75,252 4,151 94.8% 330,931

† Apr–Jun 2026: USCIS changed its I-130 data source this quarter; field-office pending counts jumped about 8× in one quarter, which reflects how petitions are counted, not a real surge in filings.

USCIS has not published Jan–Mar 2024 or Oct–Dec 2025 data, so those quarters are blank.

Apr–Jun 2026 · cases decided without a local interview

Service centers and the National Benefits Center

CenterI-485 pendingI-485 decisionsI-130 pendingI-130 decisions
Vermont Service Center 246,100 1,674 17,151 6,699
Nebraska Service Center 42,805 1,248 20,388 10,948
Texas Service Center 13,250 360 20,126 11,907
California Service Center 21,108 1,134 70,141 12,970
Potomac Service Center 48 21 12,804 5,074
National Benefits Center 0 9,643 12,795 2,806

Service centers decide many I-130 petitions and employment-based green cards on paper. Contact details: USCIS service centers.

Methodology

About this data

Pending is the number of applications waiting for a decision on the last day of the quarter. Decisions are approvals plus denials during the quarter; approval rate is approvals divided by decisions. Backlog at the current pace divides pending cases by the quarter's monthly decision rate: it shows how far behind an office is, not how long any one case will take.

USCIS publishes these reports quarterly. The FY2024 Q2 (Jan–Mar 2024) and FY2026 Q1 (Oct–Dec 2025) reports are not available, so those quarters are blank. In the Apr–Jun 2026 I-130 report USCIS switched data systems and field-office pending counts jumped about 8×; we flag that quarter rather than treat it as growth. USCIS hides very small counts, shown as "—".

USCIS field office questions

Why are USCIS field offices so slow in 2026?

Field offices decided 70,505 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026, −73% vs a year earlier, while 742,138 were pending. Field offices have been deciding far fewer applications in 2026 than a year earlier, while new filings keep arriving, so pending cases are piling up, and approval rates have fallen too. USCIS does not publish a reason for each office; its quarterly data shows the slowdown at almost every office at once, which points to agency-wide causes rather than anything about one office.

How do I know which USCIS field office handles my case?

Your field office is set by your home ZIP code. Your interview notice names it, and the official USCIS office locator (uscis.gov/about-us/find-a-uscis-office/field-offices) shows the office for any ZIP code.

How long does USCIS take to process an N-400 now?

Use the USCIS "Check Case Processing Times" tool for your form and office. It gives the time it takes to finish 80% of cases. The numbers on this page show whether your office is speeding up or slowing down, which that tool does not.

What do "pending", "decided" and "approval rate" mean here?

Pending is the number of applications waiting for a decision on the last day of the quarter. Decided is approvals plus denials during the quarter. Approval rate is approvals divided by decisions. Cases that were withdrawn or moved to another office are not counted as decisions.

Related: USCIS processing times · USCIS asylum offices · USCIS fee schedule

Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Citizenship Data — quarterly Form N-400, I-485 and I-130 reports by field office, FY2024 Q1 through FY2026 Q3 (data through June 30, 2026). Counts are applications, not people. USCIS suppresses very small counts ("—"). Pending counts can shift between quarters when USCIS moves cases between offices. The data does not include international offices.