I-130 processing at National Benefits Center, MO
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. 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
18 months
steady vs. previous quarter
Pending applications
12,779
+1% vs. previous quarter
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
2,122
unchanged vs. previous quarter
Approval rate
38%
−4 pts vs. previous quarter
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-130 (Immediate Relative) applications at the National Benefits Center grew 1% to 12,779 in Apr–Jun 2026. At that quarter's pace of decisions, clearing it would take 18 months, the same as the quarter before.
By category, Apr–Jun 2026
What happened to the applications
The bars are the I-130 (Immediate Relative) decisions the National Benefits Center 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.
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. The chart leaves it out for quarters in which the office decided fewer than 100 of these cases.