I-929 processing times · Petition for Qualifying Family Member of a U-1 Nonimmigrant
Latest USCIS data: Apr–Jun 2026, from the All USCIS Application and Petition Form Types report.
Based on USCIS's median time of 26.0 months (Apr–Jun 2026 data) and on how much real waits differed from it in the past.
Time to clear backlog
44 months
rising vs. previous quarter
Pending applications
2,265
+13% vs. previous quarter
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
153
−33% vs. previous quarter
Approval rate
76%
−5 pts vs. previous quarter
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-929 applications at USCIS grew 13% to 2,265 in Apr–Jun 2026. At that quarter's pace of decisions, clearing it would take 44 months, up from 26 months.
If you file today
How long an I-929 filed today is likely to take, by category. In past quarters, the typical wait landed in the most likely range about half the time, and in the could-be range 8 times in 10.
What happened to the applications
The bars are the I-929 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
The numbers are stored in a JSON file on GitHub.
USCIS median and backlog over time
The range starts from USCIS's own median processing time for your category and widens it by how far real waits have landed from that median in past quarters. 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