FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
I-485 processing time for Asylees
22 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
113,567
Still pending
in this category
1,662
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
12,195
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
Adjustment after a grant of asylum is reported separately from family and employment cases.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for an asylee. It publishes I-485 as Asylum, and that is the queue your petition sits in — so the figures above are that category's, not an estimate made for this page.
What comes after the petition
An asylee may apply one year after the grant. There is no numerical cap on asylee adjustments.
Reading the number
22 months is a median: half of the I-485 Asylum 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 113,567 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.