G-325A processing times · Biographic Information

Latest USCIS data: Apr–Jun 2026, from the All USCIS Application and Petition Form Types report.

Time to clear backlog

240+ months

Pending applications

18,522

+42% vs. previous quarter

Decided in Apr–Jun 2026

155

not compared: USCIS nearly stopped deciding these the quarter before

Approval rate

97%

not compared: USCIS nearly stopped deciding these the quarter before

Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending G-325A applications at USCIS grew 42% to 18,522 in Apr–Jun 2026. At that quarter's pace of decisions, clearing it would take 240+ months.

If you file today

USCIS's median processing time for each category of the G-325A, and why there is no range for it.

Category	Most likely (50%)	Could be (80%)	USCIS median
G-325A	USCIS has nearly stopped deciding these: 82% fewer decisions last quarter than its average over the four before		4.2 months

What happened to the applications

The bars are the G-325A decisions USCIS made each quarter, approved in blue and denied in red. The amber line is the backlog: how many applications were still waiting at the end of that quarter, most of them filed in earlier ones. The dashed line is how many came in.

Approved
Denied
Pending at quarter end
Filed

Source: USCIS’s quarterly All USCIS Application and Petition Form Types reports, via the Immigration and Citizenship Data page.
The numbers are stored in a JSON file on GitHub.

USCIS median and backlog over time

Time to clear backlog is how long USCIS would need to decide every pending case at last quarter’s pace. It is not your wait: the pile includes cases on hold and cases USCIS cannot decide yet.

Time to clear backlog
USCIS median processing time

Time to clear backlog is the pending applications at the end of each quarter, divided by the decisions (approvals and denials) made per month during it. USCIS's median is how long the cases it decided in the quarter had taken.