FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
I-765 processing time for Asylum Applicants
0.6 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
107,579
Still pending
in this category
191,726
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
151,673
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
Work authorisation based on a pending asylum application has its own published I-765 category.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for an asylum applicant. It publishes I-765 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
Eligibility begins only after the statutory waiting period on the asylum application has run.
Reading the number
0.6 months is a median: half of the I-765 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 107,579 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.