USCIS field office data

USCIS Field Offices in Washington

3 field offices · data through June 30, 2026

Short answer

USCIS field offices in Washington decided 741 citizenship applications in Apr–Jun 2026 (−87% vs a year earlier), and 20,749 are pending. The approval rate was 75.2% (all field offices: 81.8%). 29,643 green card applications are pending.

Apr–Jun 2026 · tap a column to sort

Compare Washington field offices

Field office N-400 pending N-400 decisions vs year ago N-400 approval rate I-485 pending
Seattle 18,384 −87% 72.9% 24,937
Yakima 1,456 −82% 77.3% 2,272
Spokane 909 — — 2,434

Citizenship · all Washington offices

Citizenship (N-400)

741 citizenship applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−87%). 20,749 pending at quarter end (+92% vs a year ago). Approval rate 75.2%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 5+ years. That is how long the 20,749 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 4,513 557 184 75.2% 20,749
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 3,916 1,542 156 90.8% 16,691
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 6,630 4,718 282 94.4% 12,547
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 7,202 5,182 339 93.9% 10,825
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 7,156 6,950 371 94.9% 8,865
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 6,809 7,073 304 95.9% 9,119
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 6,851 5,622 301 94.9% 9,742
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 5,771 5,727 371 93.9% 8,700
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 5,098 4,646 395 92.2% 8,238

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

Green card · all Washington offices

Green card (I-485)

2,312 green card applications decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — slower than a year earlier (−30%). 29,643 pending at quarter end (+8% vs a year ago). Approval rate 87.7%.

Approved + denied

Decisions per quarter

Waiting for a decision

Pending at quarter end

Backlog at the current pace: 38 months. That is how long the 29,643 pending would take to clear if decisions stayed at this quarter's rate and nothing new arrived (a year ago: 25 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 5,682 2,027 285 87.7% 29,643
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 4,683 3,319 212 94.0% 27,974
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 4,825 4,085 421 90.7% 24,753
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 5,159 3,005 294 91.1% 27,503
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 5,278 4,435 248 94.7% 29,987
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 5,517 6,292 179 97.2% 27,315
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 4,457 5,529 191 96.7% 26,212
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 4,299 5,008 185 96.4% 23,085
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 5,199 2,939 160 94.8% 17,818

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

Family petitions · all Washington offices

Family petitions (I-130)

873 family petitions decided in Apr–Jun 2026 — sharply slower than a year earlier (−54%). 45,192 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 3,238 800 73 91.6% 45,192 †
Jan–Mar 2026 FY2026 Q2 1,063 1,801 103 94.6% 5,809
Jul–Sep 2025 FY2025 Q4 1,440 2,433 128 95.0% 6,016
Apr–Jun 2025 FY2025 Q3 1,520 1,816 100 94.8% 6,702
Jan–Mar 2025 FY2025 Q2 1,532 1,543 62 96.1% 6,586
Oct–Dec 2024 FY2025 Q1 1,404 1,376 41 97.1% 6,191
Jul–Sep 2024 FY2024 Q4 1,154 2,448 34 98.6% 5,694
Apr–Jun 2024 FY2024 Q3 1,422 2,483 27 98.9% 6,672
Oct–Dec 2023 FY2024 Q1 1,242 1,776 30 98.3% 5,122

† 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 Washington: questions

How many citizenship applications are pending in Washington?

20,749 N-400 applications were pending at USCIS field offices in Washington at the end of Apr–Jun 2026. Those offices decided 741 in the quarter (−87% vs a year ago).

Which USCIS field office do I go to in Washington?

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.