I-129 Processing Time

USCIS processing snapshot: Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services publishes adjudication-time data monthly for each service center and field office handling I-129. This snapshot covers 4 offices and was last refreshed in March 2026. The average minimum processing time across reporting offices is roughly 3.4 months, with the fastest office currently at 3 months (California Service Center) and the slowest at 4 months (Nebraska Service Center). USCIS processing time is the agency’s own reported window for cases currently receiving decisions, not a guarantee, individual cases can finish inside, at, or beyond the range depending on case complexity, RFE activity, and office workload.

Where this form sits in the corpus. Among 10 USCIS forms published here, Form I-129 ranks #10 by average office minimum months (#1 = longest). By office-to-office spread (slowest minus fastest minimum) it ranks #6 of 9 (spread ≈ 1 months). That is a 4-place gap: I-129's office-to-office spread ranks among the wider forms, while its average minimum sits comparatively shorter in the published set. I-129's average office minimum is currently short by USCIS-form standards (about 4 months or less). Ranks are computed live from the same USCIS snapshot shown in the table; they compare forms to each other, not individual case outcomes.