N-648 processing times · Medical Certification for Disability Exceptions
Latest USCIS data: Apr–Jun 2026, from the All USCIS Application and Petition Form Types report.
Time to clear backlog
Not shown: USCIS did not publish the decisions
Pending applications
9,302
+501% vs. previous quarter
Decided in Apr–Jun 2026
n/a
USCIS did not publish them
Approval rate
n/a
Quarter-over-quarter highlight: The pile of pending N-648 applications at USCIS grew 501% to 9,302 in Apr–Jun 2026.
What happened to the applications
The bars are the N-648 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.
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 does not publish a processing time for this form in these reports.