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USCIS processing times increase in financial year 2025<\/h2>\n

USCIS processing times for both family and employment-based applications have increased in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2025.<\/p>\n

Compared to the 2024 financial year, there has been a significant increase in processing times in almost all areas. Family-based I-130 applications, including applications by US citizens for their spouses, have been particularly hard hit. <\/p>\n

Here is a comparison of the processing times between the 2024 financial year and the first quarter of the 2025 financial year (October 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Application type<\/th>\nFY 2024<\/th>\nFY 2025<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
I-130 Petition for close relatives<\/td>\n11.7 months<\/td>\n14.4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-129 Petition for non-immigrant workers<\/td>\n2.2 months<\/td>\n3.5 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-140 Petition for immigrant workers<\/td>\n7.1 months<\/td>\n7.6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 Application for adjustment of status (work-related)<\/td>\n6.6 months<\/td>\n6.9 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 Application for adjustment of status (family-related)<\/td>\n8.9 months<\/td>\n9.3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These delays can impact applicants and their families, especially those who rely on the approval of their applications to realize their plans in the United States.<\/p>\n

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USCIS processing times increase in financial year 2025<\/h2>\n

USCIS processing times for both family and employment-based applications have increased in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2025.<\/p>\n

Compared to the 2024 financial year, there has been a significant increase in processing times in almost all areas. Family-based I-130 applications, including applications by US citizens for their spouses, have been particularly hard hit. <\/p>\n

Here is a comparison of the processing times between the 2024 financial year and the first quarter of the 2025 financial year (October 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Application type<\/th>\nFY 2024<\/th>\nFY 2025<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
I-130 Petition for close relatives<\/td>\n11.7 months<\/td>\n14.4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-129 Petition for non-immigrant workers<\/td>\n2.2 months<\/td>\n3.5 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-140 Petition for immigrant workers<\/td>\n7.1 months<\/td>\n7.6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 Application for adjustment of status (work-related)<\/td>\n6.6 months<\/td>\n6.9 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 Application for adjustment of status (family-related)<\/td>\n8.9 months<\/td>\n9.3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These delays can impact applicants and their families, especially those who rely on the approval of their applications to realize their plans in the United States.<\/p>\n

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USCIS processing times increase in financial year 2025<\/h2>\n

The USCIS processing time for both family and\u00a0<\/span>employment based<\/span>\u00a0petitions have increased in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compared to the 2024 financial year, there has been a significant increase in processing times in almost all areas. Family-based I-130 applications, including applications by US citizens for their spouses, have been particularly hard hit.<\/p>\n

Here is a comparison of processing times from FY 2024 compared to the first quarter of FY 2025 (October 1, 2024 \u2013 January 31, 2025):<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Application type<\/th>\nFY 2024<\/th>\nFY 2025<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
I-130 Petition for Immediate Relative<\/span><\/td>\n11.7 months<\/td>\n14.4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker<\/span><\/td>\n2.2 months<\/td>\n3.5 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-140 Petition for Immigrant Worker<\/span><\/td>\n7.1 months<\/td>\n7.6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 \u00a0Application to Adjust Status (employment-based)<\/span><\/td>\n6.6 months<\/td>\n6.9 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I-485 Application to Adjust Status (family-based)<\/span><\/td>\n8.9 months<\/td>\n9.3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These delays can impact applicants and their families, especially those who rely on the approval of their applications to realize their plans in the United States.<\/p>\n

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USCIS processing times increase in financial year 2025 The USCIS processing time for both family and\u00a0employment based\u00a0petitions have increased in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025. Compared to the 2024 financial year, there has been a significant increase in processing times in almost all areas. Family-based I-130 applications, including applications by US citizens for their spouses, have been particularly hard hit. Here is a comparison of processing times from FY 2024 compared to the first quarter of FY 2025 (October 1, 2024 \u2013 January 31, 2025): Application type FY 2024 FY 2025 I-130 Petition for Immediate Relative 11.7 months 14.4 months I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker 2.2 months 3.5 months I-140 Petition for Immigrant Worker 7.1 months 7.6 months I-485 \u00a0Application to Adjust Status (employment-based) 6.6 months 6.9 months I-485 Application to Adjust Status (family-based) 8.9 months 9.3 months These delays can impact applicants and their families, especially those who rely on the approval of their applications to realize their plans in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}