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I-817 processing times · Application for Family Unity Benefits

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

Time to clear backlog

Not shown: too few decisions

 

Pending applications

63

too few to compare with the quarter before

Decided in Apr–Jun 2026

43

too few to compare with the quarter before

Approval rate

95%

too few decisions to compare with the quarter before

Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-817 applications at USCIS went from 75 to 63 in Apr–Jun 2026.

If you file today

USCIS's median processing time for each category of the I-817, and why there is no range for it.

CategoryMost likely (50%)Could be (80%)USCIS median
I-817Too few decisions last quarter to estimate2.5 months

What happened to the applications

The bars are the I-817 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
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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. A diamond marks a pending count that doesn't match the quarter before's count plus the quarter's filings minus its decisions: it is what USCIS reported, but USCIS doesn't say why they differ, so the pages draw no conclusions from it.

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. The chart leaves it out for quarters in which USCIS decided fewer than 100, too few to divide by. USCIS's Apr–Jun 2024 report repeated the quarter before's medians, so the chart has none for Apr–Jun 2024.

  • Time to clear backlog
  • USCIS median processing time
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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. A diamond marks a pending count that doesn't match the quarter before's count plus the quarter's filings minus its decisions: it is what USCIS reported, but USCIS doesn't say why they differ, so the pages draw no conclusions from it.