I-485 processing at Baltimore, MD

Latest USCIS data: Jan–Mar 2026, from the I-485 by Category, Case Status, and USCIS Field Office Location report.

Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-485 applications at the Baltimore office grew 11% to 24,446 in Jan–Mar 2026. At that quarter's pace of decisions, clearing it would take 13.4 years, up from 35 months. That is slower than the 32 months estimated for the country as a whole.

What happened to the applications

The bars are the I-485 decisions the Baltimore 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.

How long the wait is

The estimated wait is how long it would take to decide every pending application if the office kept up that quarter’s pace. It is not USCIS’s official processing time (which counts only cases already decided), but it moves the same way and shows the trend a quarter or two earlier.