Exact USCIS category source
I-485 Based on refugee admission more than 1 year ago Processing Time
Based on refugee admission more than 1 year ago
Current published range
32–70.5 months
USCIS publication
Source row
131C
Field Office Directorate · FOD
Upper bound of each published range. Source: USCIS processing time publications.
2 office series, plotted separately. Field Office Directorate reports this row currently; one office previously reported it and its series ends at its last publication (Nebraska Service Center through 2023-05-04). 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-485, Based on refugee admission more than 1 year ago, were 32–70.5 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-485/categories/131c/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Scope
This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-485 source row 131C, across all offices and all publications. The current range above is the range published for that row at Field Office Directorate. The chart plots the full published history of every office that has reported this row — Field Office Directorate and Nebraska Service Center — as 2 separate series. Labeled “Based on refugee admission more than 1 year ago.” It is the Based on refugee admission more than 1 year ago category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.
For other categories, use the form-wide I-485 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-485 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 61 USCIS source publications, issued monthly; latest source publication Aug 17, 2026.