USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in Texas

5 field offices · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in Texas decided 10,595 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−64% vs a year earlier), and 87,814 are pending. The approval rate was 90.6% (all field offices: 81.8%). 140,743 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Compare Texas field offices

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
Houston 31,057 −49% 91.0% 57,601
Dallas 28,662 −65% 92.0% 38,257
San Antonio 18,999 −75% 93.2% 30,622
El Paso 5,737 −75% 76.2% 10,932
Harlingen 3,359 −86% 70.1% 3,331

Citizenship · all Texas offices

Citizenship (N-400)

10,595 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−64%). 87,814 pending at quarter end (+61% vs a year ago). Approval rate 90.6%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 25 months. That is how long the 87,814 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 5.6 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 17,310 9,594 1,001 90.6% 87,814
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 15,739 5,064 1,050 82.8% 80,162
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 27,959 24,866 2,083 92.3% 56,936
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 27,614 27,391 1,823 93.8% 54,400
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 29,266 26,113 2,087 92.6% 55,075
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 25,614 24,318 1,095 95.7% 54,151
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 27,874 21,035 1,500 93.3% 54,031
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 25,271 23,321 1,543 93.8% 48,525
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 20,053 16,991 1,574 91.5% 38,715

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

Green card · all Texas offices

Green card (I-485)

8,856 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−60%). 140,743 pending at quarter end (+17% vs a year ago). Approval rate 87.9%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 48 months. That is how long the 140,743 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 16 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 25,297 7,785 1,071 87.9% 140,743
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 21,671 11,059 968 92.0% 130,540
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 30,382 20,463 1,197 94.5% 119,949
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 34,633 21,333 917 95.9% 120,758
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 34,696 15,137 947 94.1% 123,619
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 33,085 15,494 899 94.5% 108,579
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 23,643 14,274 1,173 92.4% 85,046
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 24,456 15,913 983 94.2% 89,606
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 28,855 13,706 1,498 90.1% 97,167

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

Family petitions · all Texas offices

Family petitions (I-130)

7,779 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−52%). 241,307 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 91.6%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 20,451 7,127 652 91.6% 241,307 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 7,221 8,625 489 94.6% 33,118
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 10,667 14,119 671 95.5% 32,865
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 10,647 15,691 514 96.8% 35,842
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 10,432 7,238 575 92.6% 38,681
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 9,829 7,564 457 94.3% 34,129
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 8,430 10,537 565 94.9% 31,426
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 10,052 12,148 503 96.0% 33,359
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 8,849 10,057 349 96.6% 37,355

† 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 Texas: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in Texas?

87,814 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in Texas at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 10,595 in the quarter (−64% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in Texas?

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.