FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
I-130 processing time for Spouse of a Green Card Holder
39.4 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
1,597,832
Still pending
in this category
23,584
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
37,808
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
The husband or wife of a lawful permanent resident falls in preference category F2A, outside the immediate relative group.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for spouse of green card holder. It publishes I-130 as All Other Relative, and that is the queue your petition sits in — so the figures above are that category's, not an estimate made for this page.
Also counted in the same category: a child over 21 of a U.S. citizen, a sibling of a U.S. citizen .
What comes after the petition
F2A is capped, so an approved petition then waits for a visa number to become available. The figures below cover only the first of those two waits.
Reading the number
39.4 months is a median: half of the I-130 All Other Relative petitions USCIS finished in FY2026 Q2 took longer than that, and half took less. It describes cases that were completed in the quarter, so it says nothing directly about a case filed today — a queue of 1,597,832 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.