Other · FY2026 Q2

I-131 (Initial Parole Document for Aliens) — Application for Initial Parole Document for Aliens Outside the United States

0 mo

Median processing time

as USCIS published it

32,573

Still pending

at the close of the quarter

579

Decided this quarter

approvals and denials

95.9%

Denied, of decisions

not a grade — see below

What these numbers say

In FY2026 Q2 USCIS received 690 I-131 (Initial Parole Document for Aliens) filings and decided 579 of them. 32,573 were still waiting when the quarter closed — about 52.4 quarters of work at the rate the agency was clearing them. The median case took 0 months.

95.9% 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.