I-956 processing times · Application for Regional Center Designation
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
46
too few to compare with the quarter before
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
10
too few to compare with the quarter before
Approval rate
90%
too few decisions to compare with the quarter before
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending I-956 applications at USCIS went from 47 to 46 in Apr–Jun 2026.
If you file today
USCIS's median processing time for each category of the I-956, and why there is no range for it.
What happened to the applications
The bars are the I-956 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
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