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Exact USCIS category source

I-821 Sudan Initial Processing Time

Sudan Initial

Current published range

6.5–7 months

USCIS publication

Source row

821SD_I

Service Center Operations · SCD

Historical upper bound

Exact 821SD_I publications; no form-wide averaging.

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

2 office series, plotted separately. Service Center Operations reports this row currently; one office previously reported it and its series ends at its last publication (Vermont Service Center through 2025-09-05). 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-821, Sudan Initial, were 6.5–7 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-821/categories/821sd-i/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840

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Scope

This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-821 source row 821SD_I, 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 and Vermont Service Center — as 2 separate series. Labeled “Sudan Initial.” It is the Sudan Initial category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.

For other categories, use the form-wide I-821 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-821 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 57 USCIS source publications, issued monthly; latest source publication Aug 17, 2026.

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