Other · FY2026 Q2

I-131 (Advance Parole Document for Aliens) — Application for Advance Parole Document for Aliens Inside the United States

6.5 mo

Median processing time

as USCIS published it

375,024

Still pending

at the close of the quarter

67,931

Decided this quarter

approvals and denials

13.1%

Denied, of decisions

not a grade — see below

What these numbers say

In FY2026 Q2 USCIS received 120,457 I-131 (Advance Parole Document for Aliens) filings and decided 67,931 of them. 375,024 were still waiting when the quarter closed — about 5.5 quarters of work at the rate the agency was clearing them. The median case took 6.5 months.

13.1% of the decisions made were denials. That figure is shown because it is published, not because it is a verdict: USCIS releases no measure that separates an office applying the law strictly from one receiving weaker filings, so nothing on this site grades on it.

Other I-131 categories

USCIS reports I-131 as separate categories, and they do not run at the same speed.