USCIS processing times
USCIS processing times by office, with history
USCIS's own tool makes you pick a form, a category and an office, then shows one number for today. When that number changes, the old one is gone. USCIS publishes history only as national medians by fiscal year.
These pages keep every published figure. They're rebuilt from a daily archive of USCIS's processing-time data going back to March 2022 and refresh every day, so you can see whether your office is speeding up or falling behind. Data as of Oct 16, 2026.
Covered now: family-based I-485 at 90 field offices (median 16 months) and N-400 at 90 (median 12.5 months).
Pick a form
I-485 (adjustment of status)
I-485 processing time by field office
Fastest offices
- Burlington, VT8.5 months
- Tucson, AZ8.5 months
- Anchorage, AK9.5 months
- Helena, MT9.5 months
- Buffalo, NY10 months
Slowest offices
- Seattle, WA36 months
- San Jose, CA32.5 months
- Santa Ana, CA27.5 months
- Raleigh, NC24.5 months
- Portland, ME22.5 months
Biggest moves in the latest USCIS update
- San Juan, PR14.5 months (−2.5 mo)
- San Francisco, CA18.5 months (−2.5 mo)
- Hialeah, FL14 months (−1.5 mo)
- Seattle, WA36 months (+9.5 mo)
- Yakima, WA21 months (+6.5 mo)
- Spokane, WA22 months (+6.5 mo)
N-400 (naturalization)
N-400 processing time by field office
Fastest offices
- Cranbury, NJ9 months
- Cincinnati, OH9.5 months
- Helena, MT9.5 months
- Hialeah, FL9.5 months
- Montgomery, AL9.5 months
Slowest offices
- Lawrence, MA18 months
- San Jose, CA16 months
- Sacramento, CA16 months
- San Diego, CA15.5 months
- Fresno, CA15.5 months
Biggest moves in the latest USCIS update
- Charlotte Amalie, VI11.5 months (+3 mo)
- Fort Myers, FL15.5 months (+2.5 mo)
- Miami, FL10 months (+2 mo)
USCIS processing times
What the two numbers mean
USCIS publishes two figures for each office. The headline one is how long it took to decide 80% of the cases completed over the last six months. The second is the 93% mark: once a case is older than that, USCIS treats it as outside normal processing time and lets you submit a case inquiry. The "receipt date for a case inquiry" USCIS shows is today minus that 93% figure.
Both describe cases USCIS already finished. They read recent throughput at that office. They're not a promise about your case.
Sources and method
Where these numbers come from
Every figure is USCIS's own, from its Case Processing Times tool. USCIS shows only today's number and overwrites it when it changes. It keeps no history.
The history comes from the open jzebedee/uscis project, which has saved a copy of USCIS's processing-time data every day since March 2022. We read that archive daily and string each office's and category's changes into one timeline.
On May 6, 2022 USCIS switched its headline number from the median to the 80% measure, so the 80% history starts that day.