Employment Based · FY2026 Q2
I-765 (Asylum) — Application for Employment Authorization
0.6 mo
Median processing time
as USCIS published it
107,579
Still pending
at the close of the quarter
191,726
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
7.5%
Denied, of decisions
not a grade — see below
What these numbers say
In FY2026 Q2 USCIS received 151,673 I-765 (Asylum) filings and decided 191,726 of them. 107,579 were still waiting when the quarter closed — about 0.6 quarters of work at the rate the agency was clearing them. The median case took 0.6 months.
7.5% 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.
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Received | Decided | Pending | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Q4 | 350,010 | 567,296 | 225,764 | 1.3 mo |
| FY2026 Q2 | 151,673 | 191,726 | 107,579 | 0.6 mo |
Other I-765 categories
USCIS reports I-765 as separate categories, and they do not run at the same speed.