FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
I-485 processing time for EB-2
4.9 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
215,177
Still pending
in this category
44,696
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
47,514
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
USCIS does not split I-485 by employment preference. EB-2 adjustments are inside the employment-based row.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for an EB-2 applicant. It publishes I-485 as Employment, 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: an employment-based applicant, an EB-1 applicant, an EB-3 applicant .
What comes after the petition
EB-2 is heavily oversubscribed for India and China. For those countries the visa queue, not this processing time, is what determines the wait.
Reading the number
4.9 months is a median: half of the I-485 Employment 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 215,177 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.