I-589: Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal
Humanitarian. Reported by USCIS for FY2026 Q3.
Median processing time
0 months
receipt to completion, cases completed this quarter
Pending
1,392,782
awaiting a decision as of 2026-06-30
Received this quarter
20,159
FY2026 Q3
Completed this quarter
47,654
1,620 approved, 18,779 denied
Fiscal year to date, FY2026 Q3
| Received | Approved | Denied | Completed | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103,001 | 4,358 | 28,683 | 161,687 | 1,392,782 |
Notes on this form
- Data are for affirmatively filed I-589 asylum applications and do not include defensive asylum claims before a DOJ EOIR immigration court. For affirmative I-589s, the “denial” column includes cases where USCIS found the applicant not eligible on the merits of the claim and referred the applicant to
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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