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Over 11 million immigration cases waiting at USCIS
The data covers the period from Jan.1, 2025, to Mar. 31, 2025, and shows a clear increase in the overall backlog under the new administration.
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Pranavi Sharma - Fri, 11, Jul 2025
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recorded over 11.3 million pending immigration cases as of Mar. 31, 2025—the highest backlog in the agency’s history. The figure, released in USCIS’s second quarter report for fiscal year 2025, comes just before the agency lost thousands of workers in early May, raising further concerns about future delays.
The data covers the period from Jan.1, 2025, to Mar.31, 2025, and shows a clear increase in the overall backlog under the new administration. According to the report, USCIS also reported more than 34,000 cases in its “frontlog,” referring to applications received at service centers and lockboxes that have not yet been opened or issued receipts. This is the first time in over a year that the agency has reported this figure.
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Processing times for several application types worsened compared to the previous quarter. USCIS noted delays in Form I-90 (Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card) and Form I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization).
These delays are linked to the suspension of Streamline Case Processing (SCP), an automated system that processes cases without officer review. The agency paused SCP for additional vetting but has not indicated when it may resume.
For Form I-131 (Application for Travel Document for Advance Parole), the number of pending applications has dropped by nearly 60,000 since the beginning of the fiscal year. However, 260,000 cases were still pending by the end of March, with a median processing time of 5.8 months.
Employment authorization data remains difficult to interpret. While there is no reported backlog for categories C09 (based on a pending adjustment of status) and C08 (based on a pending asylum claim), the agency reported a backlog of 775,000 for all other employment authorization requests.
This number includes 531,000 C11 cases (parole-based), many of which were reopened for revocation under the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program.
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