FY2026 Q2 · USCIS field office
N-400 processing time in San Francisco
72.3 mo
This office's queue
pending, at its own clearance rate
15,684
Pending here
at the close of the quarter
579
Decided here
approvals and denials
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National median
USCIS figure for N-400
Grade F for its N-400 queue
In FY2026 Q2 the San Francisco, California field office decided 579 N-400 cases and still held 15,684 of them. At that pace its queue ran about 72.3 months — 259% longer than the national figure for the same form.
The letter measures queue length only — never how often this office says no. Why →
Denials here
Of the 579 N-400 decisions this office made, 107 (18.5%) were denials. A higher share is not evidence of a worse office: USCIS publishes nothing that separates an office applying the law strictly from one receiving weaker filings, which is why no grade on this site is built on it.
Shortest N-400 queues elsewhere
Other field offices, same form, same quarter.
| Grade | Office | Queue |
|---|---|---|
| A | Columbus Ohio | 8.4 mo |
| A | Los Angeles California | 8.8 mo |
| A | Queens New York | 9.7 mo |
| A | New Jersey Central New Jersey | 9.7 mo |
| A | St. Louis Missouri | 9.9 mo |
| A | Providence Rhode Island | 10.2 mo |
| A | Cleveland Ohio | 10.6 mo |
| A | West Palm Beach Florida | 10.9 mo |
| A | Brooklyn New York | 11.0 mo |
| A | San Juan Puerto Rico | 11.5 mo |