USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in Pennsylvania

2 field offices · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in Pennsylvania decided 1,949 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−76% vs a year earlier), and 19,958 are pending. The approval rate was 83.1% (all field offices: 81.8%). 28,026 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Compare Pennsylvania field offices

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
Philadelphia 17,912 −80% 80.4% 22,054
Pittsburgh 2,046 −37% 91.9% 5,972

Citizenship · all Pennsylvania offices

Citizenship (N-400)

1,949 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−76%). 19,958 pending at quarter end (+32% vs a year ago). Approval rate 83.1%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 31 months. That is how long the 19,958 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 5.7 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 4,231 1,620 329 83.1% 19,958
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 4,486 2,004 522 79.3% 17,428
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 7,059 7,036 676 91.2% 14,642
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 7,238 7,279 709 91.1% 15,144
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 7,814 6,350 836 88.4% 15,612
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 7,303 6,512 704 90.2% 15,068
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 8,319 5,839 715 89.1% 14,966
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 7,085 6,697 589 91.9% 13,170
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 6,270 5,430 872 86.2% 10,900

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

Green card · all Pennsylvania offices

Green card (I-485)

2,497 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−44%). 28,026 pending at quarter end (+22% vs a year ago). Approval rate 87.4%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 34 months. That is how long the 28,026 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 15 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 5,987 2,182 315 87.4% 28,026
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 4,839 2,803 264 91.4% 24,470
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 5,786 5,446 420 92.8% 22,214
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 5,886 4,196 298 93.4% 23,019
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 5,992 4,464 325 93.2% 21,574
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 5,806 5,193 284 94.8% 20,116
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 4,736 5,340 254 95.5% 19,132
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 4,627 4,640 208 95.7% 20,889
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 4,404 3,986 263 93.8% 17,349

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

Family petitions · all Pennsylvania offices

Family petitions (I-130)

1,586 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−46%). 71,405 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 79.6%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 5,409 1,262 324 79.6% 71,405 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 1,356 2,013 267 88.3% 8,165
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 2,019 4,004 341 92.2% 8,529
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 2,206 2,665 291 90.2% 9,656
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 2,245 1,905 243 88.7% 9,203
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 2,038 2,634 180 93.6% 8,346
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 1,823 2,925 187 94.0% 8,130
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 1,969 2,775 195 93.4% 8,935
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 1,910 2,172 150 93.5% 8,179

† 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 Pennsylvania: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in Pennsylvania?

19,958 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in Pennsylvania at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 1,949 in the quarter (−76% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in Pennsylvania?

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.