N-400 processing at Spokane, WA
USCIS does not publish processing times per office. Nationally, N-400 (Civilian) filers can expect a decision in 8-16 months if they file today, going by USCIS’s median for Apr–Jun 2026. USCIS decided 64% fewer of these that quarter than its average over the four before, so plan for the later end. See the national N-400 range for each category.
Latest USCIS data: Apr–Jun 2026, from the N-400 by Category, Case Status, and USCIS Field Office Location report.
Time to clear backlog
Not shown: too few decisions
Pending applications
909
+18% vs. previous quarter
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
~57
Denials withheld by USCIS as too few, counted as 5
Approval rate
85-98%
range: USCIS withheld the denials as too few (1 to 9)
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending N-400 applications at the Spokane office grew 18% to 909 in Apr–Jun 2026.
What happened to the applications
The bars are the N-400 decisions the Spokane 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.
- Approved
- Denied
- Pending at quarter end
- Filed
The numbers are stored in a JSON file on GitHub. A dashed line ("cases moved in"): In Apr–Jun 2021, USCIS moved cases to the Spokane office: its pile, and the time to clear it, changed for that reason, not because the office sped up or fell behind.
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. A dashed line marks a quarter in which it did: the pile, and the time to clear it, then include the cases moved in (or leave out those moved away), so they don't show the office falling behind or catching up. The chart leaves it out for quarters in which the office decided fewer than 100 cases.