USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in Virginia

1 field office · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in Virginia decided 580 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−66% vs a year earlier), and 4,291 are pending. The approval rate was 93.6% (all field offices: 81.8%). 7,361 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

The field office in Virginia

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
Norfolk 4,291 −66% 93.6% 7,361

Citizenship · Virginia

Citizenship (N-400)

580 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−66%). 4,291 pending at quarter end (+9% vs a year ago). Approval rate 93.6%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 22 months. That is how long the 4,291 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 7.0 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 1,195 543 37 93.6% 4,291
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 1,068 847 83 91.1% 3,511
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 1,488 1,601 92 94.6% 3,532
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 1,695 1,558 131 92.2% 3,944
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 1,832 1,226 130 90.4% 3,866
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 1,772 1,718 107 94.1% 3,687
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 1,852 2,564 129 95.2% 3,663
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 1,473 2,069 135 93.9% 4,381
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 1,441 1,321 176 88.2% 4,547

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

Green card · Virginia

Green card (I-485)

702 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−41%). 7,361 pending at quarter end (+19% vs a year ago). Approval rate 90.0%.

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 7,361 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 1,552 632 70 90.0% 7,361
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 1,010 515 67 88.5% 6,137
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 1,233 1,201 80 93.8% 5,830
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 1,288 1,146 38 96.8% 6,162
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 1,285 1,448 87 94.3% 7,054
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 1,311 866 63 93.2% 6,392
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 1,297 510 33 93.9% 5,336
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 1,211 367 59 86.2% 5,156
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 1,066 289 50 85.3% 6,422

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

Family petitions · Virginia

Family petitions (I-130)

841 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — faster than a year earlier (+39%). 13,315 pending at quarter end. Approval rate 91.8%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedApproval ratePending
Apr–Jun 2026 FY2026 Q3 1,090 772 69 91.8% 13,315 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 263 429 34 92.7% 2,354
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 394 612 40 93.9% 2,409
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 397 589 14 97.7% 2,480
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 377 500 32 94.0% 2,734
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 398 589 17 97.2% 2,653
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 356 381 36 91.4% 2,104
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 397 204 43 82.6% 2,018
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 383 156 25 86.2% 3,237

† 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 Virginia: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in Virginia?

4,291 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in Virginia at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 580 in the quarter (−66% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in Virginia?

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.