FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
I-485 processing time for Refugees
14.6 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
132,538
Still pending
in this category
121
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
23,448
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
Adjustment after admission as a refugee is reported in its own row.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for refugee. It publishes I-485 as Refugee, 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
A refugee is required to apply one year after admission, and there is no numerical cap.
Reading the number
14.6 months is a median: half of the I-485 Refugee 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 132,538 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.