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I-485 (Employment): Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status (Employment)

Lawful Permanent Residence. Reported by USCIS for FY2026 Q3.

Median processing time
6 months
receipt to completion, cases completed this quarter
Pending
268,408
awaiting a decision as of 2026-06-30
Received this quarter
97,501
FY2026 Q3
Completed this quarter
45,236
42,076 approved, 3,160 denied

Fiscal year to date, FY2026 Q3

ReceivedApprovedDeniedCompletedPending
210,738 105,979 7,953 113,932 268,408

Where these numbers come from

These figures are taken directly from USCIS's "Number of Service-wide Forms By Quarter, Form Status, and Processing Time" report, published quarterly on the USCIS Data Library. Every count on this page is reconciled against that report's own total row before publication; a workbook that does not reconcile is not used. Nothing here is estimated.

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