I-140 worker petitions: what happened to the ones USCIS received

USCIS has approved 82.2% of the 1,032,824 EB2 petitions it has received as of June 30, 2026.

EB2 is the single largest of the employment preferences, ahead of EB3's 643,803 and EB1's 396,454 petitions received.

82.2%

EB2 approved so far

As of June 30, 2026

194,974

Petitions still pending

As of June 30, 2026

39.2%

Share from India

As of June 30, 2026

Share approved so far, by employment preference
EB387.2%EB282.2%EB174.2%Other and Unknown8.7%
PreferenceWhat USCIS calls itReceivedApproved so farShare approved so far
EB3Third Preference (EB3)643,803561,25987.2%
EB2Second Preference (EB2)1,032,824848,47382.2%
EB1First Preference (EB1)396,454294,01474.2%
Other and UnknownOther and Unknown10398.7%

Every preference here covers the same receipt years, so they can be compared with each other. None of them is an approval rate: the recent years in each are still being decided.

EB2 is the largest of the three main preferences on this chart, with 1,032,824 petitions received so far as of June 30, 2026.

Of the FY2023 cohort's approved waivers, 29,009 have been approved as of June 30, 2026, while 685 petitions from the far earlier FY2014 cohort are still undecided.

Where every I-140 petition USCIS received stands now
Approved1,703,755Denied174,455Still awaiting a decision194,974
Outcome so farPetitions
Approved1,703,755
Denied174,455
Still awaiting a decision194,974

These are the counts USCIS printed across every receipt year it reports. The most recent years are still being decided, so this is where the petitions stand today and not a rate at which USCIS approves them.

The share of all petitions still waiting stood at 9.4% as of June 30, 2026, a stock figure covering every receipt year at once rather than a current processing rate.

Share of every I-140 petition received, by country of birth
India39.2%China13.7%Philippines5.5%Brazil3.7%Vietnam1.5%Nigeria1.3%
Country of birthPetitions receivedShare of every petition received
India813,58739.2%
China283,12513.7%
Philippines113,4295.5%
Brazil76,0233.7%
Vietnam30,8821.5%
Nigeria27,0471.3%

USCIS lists only some countries separately; the rest are inside the all-countries sheet and have no bar here, so these shares do not add to everything received.

India-born beneficiaries accounted for 813,587 petitions received as of June 30, 2026, well above the 283,125 recorded for the next-largest listed country, China.

Before you use these numbers

  1. These figures cover petitions received across many years at once, so a rising total can reflect more years of data rather than a recent surge.
  2. Approval and denial counts include cases still being decided in recent years, so they are not a finished approval rate for those years.
  3. The country and category breakdowns only list some groups separately; the rest sit inside broader totals and are not shown here.
  4. Earlier published figures for the same receipt years have sometimes been revised upward later, so a single snapshot may understate a cohort's eventual total.
Petitions received in each fiscal year, and where they stand now
Received inPetitionsApprovedDeniedStill pending
FY201486,99879,3007,013685
FY2015102,90793,9508,233724
FY2016147,597134,04511,6841,868
FY2017139,380124,72813,1261,526
FY2018137,511123,43113,434646
FY2019148,421133,98813,767666
FY2020129,536118,51610,231789
FY2021178,807167,26310,3391,205
FY2022165,306152,25011,9241,132
FY2023189,514168,92517,1403,449
FY2024228,811173,35124,24531,215
FY2025244,907146,20224,13174,574
FY2026173,48987,8069,18876,495
FY2014–FY20262,073,1841,703,755174,455194,974