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I-765 All other applications for employment authorization Processing Time

Published range by office

9.5–13 months at National Benefits Center

15–18.5 months at Service Center Operations

Source row 147-OTH · 2 reporting offices, each listed separately below

USCIS publication

Published range by office

USCIS publishes this category separately for 2 offices. Each row is that office's own published range — no office aggregate or merged range is computed anywhere on this page.

Office Lower bound Upper bound Status
National Benefits Center (NBC)Fastest published 9.5 mo 13.0 mo Normal
Service Center Operations (SCD)Slowest published 15.0 mo 18.5 mo Very Slow

Historical upper bound

Exact 147-OTH publications; no form-wide averaging.

Upper bound of each published range. Source: USCIS processing time publications.

7 office series, plotted separately. National Benefits Center and Service Center Operations report this row currently; 5 offices previously reported it and their series end at their last publication (California Service Center through 2025-09-18; Vermont Service Center through 2025-09-18; Nebraska Service Center through 2025-09-18; Texas Service Center through 2025-09-18; Potomac Service Center through 2025-09-18). 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-765, All other applications for employment authorization, ranged from 9.5–13 months at National Benefits Center to 15–18.5 months at Service Center Operations across 2 reporting offices as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-765/categories/147-oth/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840

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Scope

This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-765 source row 147-OTH, 147-OTH, across all offices and all publications. The current ranges above are the ranges published for that row at National Benefits Center and Service Center Operations. The chart plots the full published history of every office that has reported this row — National Benefits Center, Service Center Operations, California Service Center, Vermont Service Center, Nebraska Service Center, Texas Service Center, and Potomac Service Center — as 7 separate series. Labeled “All other applications for employment authorization.” It is the All other applications for employment authorization category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.

For other categories, use the form-wide I-765 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-765 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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