USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in California

11 field offices · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in California decided 7,515 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−83% vs a year earlier), and 141,579 are pending. The approval rate was 82.0% (all field offices: 81.8%). 161,398 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Compare California field offices

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
San Jose 20,899 −96% 77.7% 23,633
San Francisco 18,645 −93% 84.1% 18,364
Sacramento 15,918 −83% 76.8% 16,322
Santa Ana 14,054 −64% 91.5% 15,005
San Diego 12,567 −77% 80.2% 15,049
San Bernardino 12,397 −79% 78.4% 13,668
Los Angeles County 12,295 −73% 81.8% 16,180
Los Angeles 11,703 −89% 81.2% 20,529
San Fernando Valley 11,337 −69% 85.2% 13,053
Fresno 9,722 −86% 78.0% 8,523
Imperial 2,042 −73% 63.5% 1,072

Citizenship · all California offices

Citizenship (N-400)

7,515 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−83%). 141,579 pending at quarter end (+59% vs a year ago). Approval rate 82.0%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 57 months. That is how long the 141,579 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 5.9 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 24,973 6,166 1,349 82.0% 141,579
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 23,893 12,293 2,389 83.7% 122,658
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 44,163 35,610 3,413 91.3% 94,412
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 46,097 41,969 3,559 92.2% 88,968
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 48,021 43,299 3,480 92.6% 87,321
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 43,590 36,352 2,714 93.1% 86,854
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 48,988 34,470 3,523 90.7% 82,495
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 41,851 38,975 3,756 91.2% 70,971
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 34,918 34,384 3,738 90.2% 68,682

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

Green card · all California offices

Green card (I-485)

25,995 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−23%). 161,398 pending at quarter end (+20% vs a year ago). Approval rate 93.2%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 19 months. That is how long the 161,398 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 12 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 30,337 24,228 1,767 93.2% 161,398
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 24,371 23,730 1,481 94.1% 153,384
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 28,148 45,766 2,451 94.9% 125,480
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 28,519 31,777 1,853 94.5% 134,971
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 30,932 40,745 2,003 95.3% 134,870
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 32,532 54,414 2,105 96.3% 135,764
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 28,447 58,983 2,391 96.1% 138,093
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 28,104 47,405 2,014 95.9% 132,047
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 28,167 28,013 2,039 93.2% 120,618

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

Family petitions · all California offices

Family petitions (I-130)

7,557 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−65%). 370,644 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 90.7%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 24,445 6,853 704 90.7% 370,644 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 7,788 9,278 624 93.7% 33,000
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 11,977 24,610 918 96.4% 31,615
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 11,959 21,007 810 96.3% 41,176
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 13,039 10,120 719 93.4% 46,639
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 12,093 13,706 543 96.2% 41,625
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 10,593 18,885 769 96.1% 38,567
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 12,538 23,085 642 97.3% 45,820
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 10,532 14,383 622 95.9% 43,891

† 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.

USCIS field offices in California: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in California?

141,579 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in California at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 7,515 in the quarter (−83% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in California?

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.

Why are USCIS field offices slower now?

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.

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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.