I-765 employment authorization, age of the pending queue

The pending I-765 queue rose from 1,908,996 to 2,132,032 between March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026.

Of that total, the share waiting 180 days or longer held at 64.3%, unchanged from 64.3% at March 31, 2026.

2,132,032

Total pending applications

As of June 30, 2026

64.3%

Share pending 180+ days

As of June 30, 2026

104,484

Pending C08 asylum applicants

As of June 30, 2026

Pending I-765 applications, quarter by quarter
2,139,3431,245,124December 31, 2023June 30, 2026
Period endingPending, all categoriesPending 180 days or longer
December 31, 20231,543,973647,201
March 31, 20241,621,039638,149
June 30, 20241,405,933568,031
September 30, 20241,265,392565,837
December 31, 20241,245,124524,511
March 31, 20252,139,343949,741
June 30, 20251,858,759560,781
September 30, 20251,725,978952,317
December 31, 20251,665,7691,068,548
March 31, 20261,908,9961,228,179
June 30, 20262,132,0321,371,058

These are counts at each period end, not quarterly activity: they cannot be added across quarters. A period with a withheld band is left off the line, because its total would be short by an amount the file does not give.

The queue's growth between March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026 amounted to a 11.7% increase, following a rise of 223,036 applications.

The age bands USCIS published this quarter
30 or fewer days139,87931 to 60 days131,14761 - 90 days162,59791 - 120 days138,847121 - 179 days188,504180 to 540 days969,634541 or more days401,424
Age bandPending
30 or fewer days139,879
31 to 60 days131,147
61 - 90 days162,597
91 - 120 days138,847
121 - 179 days188,504
180 to 540 days969,634
541 or more days401,424

The bands are not equal in width, and the last one is open-ended, so the bars compare how many are in each band and not how fast the queue moves through it.

As of June 30, 2026, USCIS published 7 age bands, compared with 5 as of March 31, 2026, so the boundaries and widths of each band differ between the two periods.

C08 (asylum-applicant) share of the pending I-765 queue
26.6%4.9%December 31, 2023June 30, 2026
Period endingPending, all categoriesPending C08 (asylum applicants)C08 share of the queue
December 31, 20231,543,973281,49018.2%
March 31, 20241,621,039339,24420.9%
June 30, 20241,405,933283,50020.2%
September 30, 20241,265,392317,92725.1%
December 31, 20241,245,124330,64226.6%
March 31, 20252,139,343468,33021.9%
June 30, 20251,858,759463,03724.9%
September 30, 20251,725,978248,39314.4%
December 31, 20251,665,769164,3409.9%
March 31, 20261,908,996107,1835.6%
June 30, 20262,132,032104,4844.9%

C08 applications are part of the queue above them, not a separate queue: the two columns cannot be added. Each share is of that period's own queue.

As of June 30, 2026, C08 (asylum-applicant) applications numbered 104,484, making up 4.9% of the total pending queue of 2,132,032.

Before you use these numbers

  1. Counts here reflect a snapshot at the end of the period, not the pace of applications filed or completed during it.
  2. The age bands published this quarter differ in number and width from the prior quarter, so band-by-band comparisons should not be drawn across the change.
  3. A rising pending count does not by itself indicate how long any individual applicant will wait.
  4. Category shares (such as C08 asylum applicants) are portions of the same total queue, not separate counts that add on top of it.
Every published period
Period endingPending, all categoriesInitialRenewalC08 (asylum applicants)Pending 180 days or longer
June 30, 20262,132,0321,432,182699,850104,4841,371,058
March 31, 20261,908,9961,283,497625,499107,1831,228,179
December 31, 20251,665,7691,109,049556,720164,3401,068,548
September 30, 20251,725,9781,046,156679,822248,393952,317
June 30, 20251,858,7591,031,405827,354463,037560,781
March 31, 20252,139,3431,372,519766,824468,330949,741
December 31, 20241,245,124759,263485,861330,642524,511
September 30, 20241,265,392729,339536,053317,927565,837
June 30, 20241,405,933882,122523,811283,500568,031
March 31, 20241,621,0391,020,167600,872339,244638,149
December 31, 20231,543,973976,764567,209281,490647,201