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I-140 Skilled worker or professional (E31; E32) Processing Time

Skilled worker or professional (E31; E32)

Current published range

4–8.5 months

USCIS publication

Source row

136A-E31

Service Center Operations · SCD

Historical upper bound

Exact 136A-E31 publications; no form-wide averaging.

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 (Nebraska Service Center through 2025-07-28; Texas 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-140, Skilled worker or professional (E31; E32), were 4–8.5 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-140/categories/136a-e31/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840

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Scope

This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-140 source row 136A-E31, 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, Nebraska Service Center, and Texas Service Center — as 3 separate series. Labeled “Skilled worker or professional (E31; E32).” It is the Skilled worker or professional (E31; E32) category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.

For other categories, use the form-wide I-140 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-140 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.

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