Approval Trends Brief
Issue 34Published Aug 17, 2026
Travel Document · Week 34
I-131 · Travel document

I-131 Approval Trends Brief: weekly snapshot

This week's I-131 data was published in scheduled form. The deeper narrative could not be assembled this run; readers should rely on the charts and tables below for the underlying numbers.

This issue presents the I-131 weekly approval data in tabular form. The narrative pipeline did not produce a confident read on this week's trend, so we surface the data without interpretation. The charts below carry the same numbers the writer would have summarised: 12-week median trend, stage durations, and RFE (Request for Evidence) outcomes.

Key findings
  1. I-131 data published for the current ISO week as scheduled.
  2. Narrative pipeline degraded this run; the deeper analysis is unavailable for this issue.
  3. Underlying data is intact: the figures referenced below carry the week's actual numbers.
01 / I-131 · This week

Weekly snapshot

This section presents I-131's 12-week median trend and the underlying weekly counts. The narrative read on the trend is not available for this issue; refer to the chart for the raw numbers.

Figure 1
12-week median trend
Median days from last reported status to approval, weighted across service centers and last_status values.
3503503003002502502002001501501001005050DaysJun 1Jun 1Jun 8Jun 8Jun 15Jun 15Jun 22Jun 22Jun 29Jun 29Jul 6Jul 6Jul 13Jul 13Jul 20Jul 20Jul 27Jul 27Aug 3Aug 3Aug 10Aug 10Aug 17Aug 17Forecast
p25 to p75
Weekly median
Forecast
Last year
Source: MyCasesHub. Final-stage wait, not full filing-to-approval.
02 / I-131 · Stage durations

Where time is spent

Stage durations measure the time cases spent at each last reported status before either advancing or being approved. The chart below presents the median, p25 (the 25th percentile), and p75 (the 75th percentile) days per stage.

Figure 2
Stage durations by last reported status
Days from a status appearing on a case to the next transition (advance or approval).
Last status before approval
Cases
Distribution (days)
Median
biometrics
7,033
p25 341 · p75 404
373 d
received
6,048
p25 120 · p75 315
209 d
processing
4,463
p25 12 · p75 61
30 d
others
309
p25 2 · p75 13
4 d
transferred
184
p25 280 · p75 345
344 d
rfe_response
115
p25 15 · p75 98
42 d
Source: MyCasesHub case_flow_stats.
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About this brief

Approval Trends Brief is a weekly data report from the MyCasesHub Data Team. It uses live USCIS case status updates from millions of cases tracked through MyCasesHub. Briefs are issued every Monday and revised whenever a material trend change is detected.

Methodology and resources

  • Source: USCIS case status updates collected through MyCasesHub user activity.
  • Approval marker: first occurrence of approval, card produced, or oath ceremony status.
  • Days to approval: time from a case's last non-approval status update to that marker.
  • Outlier rule: cases with a measured wait above 1,095 days are excluded.
  • Sample size threshold: cohorts with fewer than 100 cases are flagged as low confidence.
  • How we compute these numbers·I-131 only