I-601 Processing Times
Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility
33.5 mo – 49.8 mo
avg. across USCIS source rows
Current I-601 Processing Time
As of , USCIS I-601 (Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility) processing times average 33.5 mo to 49.8 mo across current USCIS source rows, with full range 26.5 mo to 54.5 mo across all offices. Service Center Operations has the lowest average upper bound at 45.0 mo (average range 40.5 mo to 45.0 mo). Processing times have been increasing over the past three months. Source data is checked daily; USCIS publishes new estimates about monthly.
Processing Time Trend
Upper bound of processing time range shown. Source: USCIS Processing Times.
The chart includes historical office series (Nebraska Service Center) from offices that previously reported this form. The current table below lists only offices with current USCIS estimates.
Dashed lines are offices that no longer report this form; each ends at its last published date.
Trend Summary
Over the trailing twelve months, the upper end of I-601's average range climbed from 37 to 49.8 months — a 34% increase. Those two figures rest on different reporting bases: Nebraska Service Center no longer reports I-601, and Service Center Operations has since begun reporting it. Field Office Directorate, the only office reporting at both, moved from 37 to 54.5 months over the same window. At 49.8 months, that is the highest average USCIS has reported for I-601 across 63 publications dating to March 2022. That record spans the same change, across 3 different office sets — the earlier figures and the current one are not measured the same way. The two offices that adjudicate I-601 differ in their current ranges: Service Center Operations reports 40.5 to 45 months and Field Office Directorate reports 26.5 to 54.5.
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I-601 Processing Times by Office
2 offices| Office | Min | Max | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Center Operations (SCD) Lowest average upper boundLowest upper | 40.5 mo | 45.0 mo | Slow |
| Field Office Directorate (FOD) | 26.5 mo | 54.5 mo | Very Slow |
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As of Aug 17, 2026, USCIS processing times for I-601 (Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility) range from 26.5 mo to 54.5 mo across all offices (full range; source-row average 33.5 mo–49.8 mo). Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-601/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Frequently Asked Questions
Current USCIS I-601 processing times range from 26.5 mo to 54.5 mo across all offices (full range; source-row average 33.5 mo–49.8 mo). Figures come from USCIS official processing time estimates, which USCIS publishes about monthly; this page is rebuilt daily.
Based on current data, Service Center Operations has the lowest average upper bound for I-601 at 45.0 mo (average range 40.5 mo to 45.0 mo). See the full comparison in the table above.
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Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Data aggregated from 63 USCIS processing time publications, issued monthly. Each office's range averages only the filing categories for which USCIS publishes both a lower and an upper bound, so both endpoints cover the same categories. Data last updated . See our data sources and methodology. Permanent link.
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