I-130 processing at Charlotte Amalie, VI
Petitions by US citizens for their spouses, their unmarried children under 21 and, if they are 21 or older, their parents.
USCIS does not publish processing times per office. Nationally, I-130 (Immediate Relative) filers can expect a decision in 11-22 months if they file today, going by USCIS’s median for Apr–Jun 2026. USCIS decided 51% fewer of these that quarter than its average over the four before, so plan for the later end. But the field offices' piles are now much longer than that suggests: after USCIS moved I-130 cases to the field offices in Apr–Jun 2026, they had 711,526 Immediate Relative cases pending and decided 63,335 that quarter, 34 months' worth at that pace (12 months the quarter before). At 81 of 90 field offices, the pile would take longer than the top of the most likely range to clear at the office's own pace. See the national I-130 range for each category.
Latest USCIS data: Apr–Jun 2026, from the I-130 by Category, Case Status, and USCIS Field Office Location report.
Time to clear backlog
Not shown: too few decisions
Pending applications
355
too few to compare with the quarter before
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
26
too few to compare with the quarter before
Approval rate
81%
too few decisions to compare with the quarter before
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-130 (Immediate Relative) applications at the Charlotte Amalie office went from 70 to 355 in Apr–Jun 2026 as USCIS moved or routed cases here from elsewhere.
By category, Apr–Jun 2026
What happened to the applications
The bars are the I-130 (Immediate Relative) decisions the Charlotte Amalie office made each quarter, approved in blue and denied in red. The amber line is its 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
The numbers are stored in a JSON file on GitHub. A dashed line ("cases moved in"): In Apr–Jun 2026, USCIS moved these cases to the Charlotte Amalie office: its pile, and the time to clear it, changed for that reason, not because the office sped up or fell behind.
Backlog over time
Time to clear backlog is how long the office 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, and USCIS sometimes moves pending cases between offices. A dashed line marks a quarter in which it did: the pile, and the time to clear it, then include the cases moved in (or leave out those moved away), so they don't show the office falling behind or catching up. The chart leaves it out for quarters in which the office decided fewer than 100 of these cases.