Exact USCIS category source
I-129 Q - Cultural exchange visitors Processing Time
Q - Cultural exchange visitors
Current published range
19.5–33 months
USCIS publication
Source row
137-Q
Service Center Operations · SCD
Upper bound of each published range. Source: USCIS processing time publications.
3 office series, plotted separately. Service Center Operations reports this row currently; 2 offices previously reported it and their series end at their last publication (California Service Center through 2025-07-28; Vermont Service Center through 2025-07-28). Lines are never drawn between offices.
Dashed lines are offices that no longer report this row; each ends at its last published date for this row.
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Citation
USCIS processing times for Form I-129, Q - Cultural exchange visitors, were 19.5–33 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-129/categories/137-q/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Scope
This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-129 source row 137-Q, across all offices and all publications. The current range above is the range published for that row at Service Center Operations. The chart plots the full published history of every office that has reported this row — Service Center Operations, California Service Center, and Vermont Service Center — as 3 separate series. Labeled “Q - Cultural exchange visitors.” It is the Q - Cultural exchange visitors category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.
For other categories, use the form-wide I-129 source page.
Methodology and limits
Values are copied from USCIS processing time publications and filtered by the exact form and subtype codes above. No other I-129 category, headline range, or office aggregate enters this page.
These published ranges describe USCIS data, not an individual case prediction. This page is informational and is not legal advice.
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Retrieved from 63 USCIS source publications, issued monthly; latest source publication Aug 17, 2026.