Case status tracker
Follow your USCIS case, step by step
Enter a receipt number for any U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) form and see the current status, every recorded update and how long each stage has taken, in one clear timeline.
- 1Sign in to USCISUse the account that filed the case, in this same browser.
- 2Open your case dataEnter the receipt number, then open the page of data USCIS keeps for it.
- 3Copy it and bring it hereOn that page press Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C (Cmd on a Mac). On a phone, press and hold, choose Select all, then Copy. Come back and press the button.
Paste or upload the data yourself, or use a Case Status API response
USCIS by the numbers
How fast is USCIS deciding cases like yours?
Official national figures for 30 forms and categories, from October to December 2023 to April to June 2026. Choose a form to compare decisions, backlog and speed over time.
- pending nationally
- 268.4K24.7% up on FY26 Q2
- median months to a decision
- 6.022.4% up on FY26 Q2
- of decisions were approvals
- 93%0.9 points down on FY26 Q2
- new cases received
- 97.5K105.2% up on FY26 Q2
I-485, employment, April to June 2026. Changes compare with the previous quarter USCIS reported.
I-485, employment
Approvals and denials each quarter, stacked, with new cases received as a line. When the line sits above the bars, the backlog grows.
- Approved
- Denied
- Received
USCIS has not published separate reports for FY24 Q2 and FY26 Q1. Their received, approved and denied counts are worked out from the fiscal-year totals in the next report, and pending counts and median times are not available for them.
Backlog map
Each bubble is a form: further right is slower, higher has more cases waiting, and a larger bubble received more new cases. Select a bubble to load it above.
2 rows without a reported median time, such as affirmative asylum, are not placed on the map.
Longest lines
Months USCIS would need to clear each backlog at the latest quarter’s pace, if no new cases arrived.
Very long figures mean USCIS completed few of these cases in the quarter, sometimes because of a processing pause or a wait for visa numbers. They do not mean each case will wait that long.
Place-in-line calculator
No case data to hand? Estimate from your filing date.
The received date is printed on your receipt notice (Form I-797C).
How the place-in-line estimate works
USCIS does not publish where an individual case sits in its queue. The estimate treats the national queue for the form as if USCIS worked through it in filing order, using the latest quarterly figures USCIS publishes.
cases ahead = max(0, P − R × m) − C × t
months left = cases ahead ÷ C
Where P is the number of cases pending nationally at the end of the latest quarter, R and C are the cases received and completed per month in that quarter, m is the number of months from your filing date to the end of that quarter (cases received in that time are behind you), and t is the number of months from the end of the quarter to today. A case filed after the quarter ended starts behind everything pending then.
The result is a rough guide, not a prediction. USCIS does not work strictly in filing order, field offices and service centers move at different speeds, and a request for evidence, an interview or a wait for a visa number can hold one case while later ones move ahead.
Choose a form and the date USCIS received your case.
The estimate appears here.
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Office of Performance and Quality, Number of Service-wide Forms by Quarter, Form Status, and Processing Time, quarterly reports from October to December 2023 to April to June 2026. USCIS revises its figures between reports, so totals here may differ slightly from later publications. Approval share counts approvals and denials only; USCIS also closes some cases in other ways.
Disclaimer
Not a government service. This tracker is provided by RT Law Services as a convenience. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or any other government agency. The official source of your case status is USCIS, at egov.uscis.gov and in your USCIS account.
Information as USCIS provides it. Status messages, dates and history come from USCIS, or from data you paste in. USCIS may update its records later than events happen, and its messages can be brief, delayed or incomplete. Descriptions of status codes come from the published National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) code list and may not reflect how USCIS uses a code in a given case. The progress stage and day counts are estimates drawn from those messages and do not predict when USCIS will decide your case.
National figures and estimates. Pending counts, approvals, denials and median times come from the quarterly reports USCIS publishes for each form. The place in line and months left are estimates from a simple model of those national totals. USCIS does not publish an individual case’s position, and these estimates are not a USCIS figure or a promise of timing.
Not legal advice. Nothing on this page is legal advice for your situation, and using the tracker does not create an attorney-client relationship. Deadlines in USCIS notices are strict, so read every notice you receive and speak with a licensed immigration attorney before you act on a status message.
Your privacy. A receipt number you look up is sent to USCIS through our secure relay to fetch the status, and neither we nor the relay keep a copy. Case data you paste, upload or send with RT Case Reader is read only in your browser and is not sent to us or stored on our servers. Cases you track are saved only in this browser, and you can remove them at any time.
Status code list: NIEM 5.0, BenefitDocumentStatusCategoryCode. View the source
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