USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in New York

6 field offices · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in New York decided 10,104 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−68% vs a year earlier), and 63,938 are pending. The approval rate was 73.1% (all field offices: 81.8%). 87,186 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Compare New York field offices

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
New York 17,071 −68% 76.7% 19,076
Brooklyn 15,687 −56% 77.5% 17,028
Queens 11,953 −80% 53.9% 17,862
Long Island 9,878 −63% 72.6% 13,593
Buffalo 6,459 −66% 77.9% 15,044
Albany 2,890 −81% 78.2% 4,583

Citizenship · all New York offices

Citizenship (N-400)

10,104 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−68%). 63,938 pending at quarter end (+9% vs a year ago). Approval rate 73.1%.

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 63,938 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 5.5 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 14,489 7,382 2,722 73.1% 63,938
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 14,771 11,289 3,305 77.4% 58,709
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 23,783 22,989 3,616 86.4% 55,787
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 25,548 28,035 3,736 88.2% 58,753
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 26,438 25,336 3,472 87.9% 64,078
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 26,244 19,582 2,579 88.4% 66,902
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 31,625 17,851 2,811 86.4% 62,909
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 26,387 22,307 3,422 86.7% 52,018
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 22,292 21,537 3,852 84.8% 46,475

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

Green card · all New York offices

Green card (I-485)

11,468 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−42%). 87,186 pending at quarter end (+10% vs a year ago). Approval rate 86.1%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 23 months. That is how long the 87,186 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 20,713 9,879 1,589 86.1% 87,186
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 15,328 13,783 1,560 89.8% 74,190
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 17,443 21,961 2,011 91.6% 70,799
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 19,497 18,162 1,571 92.0% 79,256
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 20,972 17,684 1,645 91.5% 82,262
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 21,159 16,460 1,169 93.4% 79,012
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 17,716 19,163 1,385 93.3% 72,302
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 18,206 18,199 1,335 93.2% 74,530
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 16,289 10,475 1,299 89.0% 69,930

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

Family petitions · all New York offices

Family petitions (I-130)

8,119 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−42%). 291,643 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 82.8%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 18,075 6,726 1,393 82.8% 291,643 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 5,165 7,800 1,238 86.3% 26,879
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 7,383 13,746 1,412 90.7% 30,103
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 8,212 12,818 1,151 91.8% 34,984
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 9,366 8,787 1,031 89.5% 37,271
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 8,631 8,102 688 92.2% 34,668
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 7,173 12,667 851 93.7% 32,581
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 8,025 11,342 773 93.6% 37,131
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 7,458 7,665 822 90.3% 39,000

† 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 New York: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in New York?

63,938 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in New York at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 10,104 in the quarter (−68% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in New York?

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.

All USCIS field offices · USCIS processing times

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.