Exact USCIS category source
I-90 Initial issuance or replacement Processing Time
Initial issuance or replacement
Current published range
6–9 months
USCIS publication
Source row
140A
Service Center Operations · SCD
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 (Potomac 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-90, Initial issuance or replacement, were 6–9 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-90/categories/140a/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Scope
This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-90 source row 140A, 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 Potomac Service Center — as 2 separate series. Labeled “Initial issuance or replacement.” It is the Initial issuance or replacement category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.
For other categories, use the form-wide I-90 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-90 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.