Employment preference · FY2026
I-140 EB-3 for Vietnam
Skilled workers, professionals with a bachelor's degree, and other (unskilled) workers.
4,902
Petitions filed
FY2026 born in Vietnam
4,573
Approved
in the same year
0.8%
Denied, of decisions
35 denials
294
Pending
still awaiting a decision
How long an I-140 takes
USCIS reported a median processing time of 3.4 months for I-140 in FY2026 Q2 — for the form as a whole. The agency does not publish a separate processing time for EB-3, or for any other preference, so no page on this site claims one.
What it does publish per preference is the volume: how many petitions were filed, approved, denied and left pending, by fiscal year and by country of birth. That is everything below.
EB-3 movement can run ahead of or behind EB-2 depending on the month and country of birth, which is why some applicants downgrade between them.
Year by year for Vietnam
Fiscal years, by the year the petition was received.
| Fiscal year | Filed | Approved | Denied | Denial share | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (part year) | 4,902 | 4,573 | 35 | 0.8% | 294 |
| FY2025 | 7,701 | 7,250 | 58 | 0.8% | 393 |
| FY2024 | 3,706 | 3,598 | 41 | 1.1% | 67 |
| FY2023 | 1,999 | 1,955 | 20 | 1.0% | 24 |
| FY2022 | 780 | 756 | 18 | 2.3% | 6 |
| FY2021 | 742 | 701 | 23 | 3.2% | 18 |
| FY2020 | 730 | 673 | 45 | 6.3% | 12 |
| FY2019 | 871 | 780 | 76 | 8.9% | 15 |
| FY2018 | 774 | 628 | 94 | 13.0% | 52 |
| FY2017 | 1,220 | 692 | 194 | 21.9% | 334 |
| FY2016 | 567 | 364 | 101 | 21.7% | 102 |
| FY2015 | 79 | 78 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 |
| FY2014 | 47 | 45 | 2 | 4.3% | 0 |
A petition received in one year is often decided in a later one, so approvals and denials in a row do not add up to that row's filings. The most recent year is partial — it runs only to the end of the quarter this release covers.
What EB-3 approvals were granted under
FY2026 approvals born in Vietnam. USCIS reports the sub-category only for petitions it approved, so there is no denial figure at this level.