USCIS case timelineis your case outside normal processing time yet?
Enter your receipt date, form and field office. See how your elapsed time compares to USCIS's published range, and the exact date you can file an outside-normal-processing-time inquiry.
For centrally-adjudicated forms this only sets which service center has jurisdiction.
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Your receipt date stays in this browser. These are USCIS's own published ranges, restated — not legal advice, and not a prediction of your case. Ranges are captured by hand because USCIS blocks automated access; the capture date is shown above every figure.
// Questions
- What does "outside normal processing time" mean?
- USCIS publishes a processing-time range for each form at each adjudicating office. Once your case passes the upper end of that range, it is formally outside normal processing time and USCIS will accept a case inquiry. Below the upper bound, an inquiry is closed without action however long the wait feels.
- How do I submit a case inquiry?
- Use the e-Request tool on the USCIS site once your case passes the upper bound. You need your receipt number and the receipt date. An inquiry is a status request, not an expedite request — it asks USCIS to look at why the case is sitting, and the usual outcome is a written status update rather than a decision.
- Is an inquiry the same as an expedite request?
- No. An expedite request asks USCIS to move your case ahead of others and requires a qualifying reason — severe financial loss, an emergency, a humanitarian ground, a US government interest, or a clear USCIS error. Expedite criteria are applied narrowly and most requests are denied. An inquiry needs no reason beyond the elapsed time.
- Why does the field office matter for a form filed at a service center?
- Many forms — I-130, I-485, I-765 and others — are adjudicated centrally, not at your local office. Your address still determines which service center has jurisdiction, so the office you pick here selects the right service-center range rather than a local one.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- They are USCIS's own published ranges from egov.uscis.gov, captured by hand on 2026-04-29. USCIS blocks automated access to that page from datacenter networks, so the snapshot is maintained manually rather than scraped live. Every figure on this page is shown with its capture date, and the tool stops drawing conclusions once the snapshot is more than 120 days old.
- Does this predict when my case will be decided?
- No, and be wary of any tool that claims to. This restates the range USCIS publishes for your form and office and compares your elapsed time against it. Individual cases vary enormously — a request for evidence, a background check, or a transfer between offices can move a case well outside the published range.