FY2026 Q2 · USCIS record
N-400 processing time for Military Applicants
3.7 mo
Median processing time
half of cases took longer
12,109
Still pending
in this category
2,497
Decided this quarter
approvals and denials
5,181
Filed this quarter
new petitions received
Which category your case is counted in
USCIS reports military naturalisation as a category of its own, separate from the general N-400 queue.
USCIS does not publish a separate processing time for military applicant. It publishes N-400 as Military, 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
Military naturalisation has different residence and physical presence requirements, and no filing fee.
Reading the number
3.7 months is a median: half of the N-400 Military 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 12,109 pending petitions sits ahead of a new filing.