New York City field office: how long USCIS takes now
Four USCIS field offices serve the New York area, and the one on your notice depends on where you live; this page covers the Manhattan-based New York City office.
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and past error
N-400 naturalization
Within normal time
Too early for a case inquiry.
| Published range, New York City, NY | 10.0 to 12.5 months |
|---|---|
| Time since your receipt date | 12.4 months |
| USCIS takes inquiries for receipts on or before | September 28, 2025 |
| National average to a decision (August 2026) | 12.7 months |
How this was calculated
- USCIS published these ranges on September 17, 2026. The upper figure is the time within which USCIS completed 80% of cases; the lower one is the median.
- The national average is a different measure: all cases completed in the month, from receipt to decision, as reported to Congress.
Processing-time data: ImmigrationTimes.org (CC BY 4.0), from USCIS; selected and reformatted. Check your own case on egov.uscis.gov.
Estimate from public data, not legal advice. Your case may differ (cross-chargeability, CSPA, waivers). For advice, see a licensed immigration attorney or a DOJ-accredited representative. Not affiliated with USCIS or the Department of State. Method and past error
The New York City field office is one of the quicker places in the country to become a citizen and one of the slower ones for a family green card. USCIS publishes 10 to 12.5 months for Form N-400 there, rank 7 of 90 offices, while family-based Form I-485 sits at 14.5 to 33.5 months, rank 52. New York residents are split between four offices: New York City, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, each with its own published times. Brooklyn shows 11 to 15 months for naturalization and 19 to 40 months for family adjustment; Queens 10.5 to 15.5 months and 21 to 40.5 months; Long Island 12 to 17 months and 16.5 to 33 months. USCIS accepts a case inquiry at New York City for N-400 receipts dated on or before September 28, 2025, and for family I-485 receipts on or before January 10, 2024. Source: USCIS publication of September 17, 2026.
Four offices, four queues
A family in the Bronx and a family in Flushing can file the same forms on the same day and be scheduled months apart, because they belong to different offices. On the latest figures the gap between the quickest and slowest of the four for family adjustment runs from 33 to 40.5 months at the upper bound. For naturalization the spread is narrower.
A moving target since 2022
In the first figures of our series, from March 14, 2022, USCIS published 11 to 18 months for naturalization in New York City and 10 to 34 months for family adjustment. Since then the upper bound has changed by -5.5 months for the N-400 and -0.5 for the I-485.
Reading your own position
Enter the receipt date from your notice in the checker above. If more time has passed than the upper figure, USCIS treats the case as outside normal processing time; the inquiry date shown is the cut-off USCIS itself publishes. The checker does not see your file: a request for evidence or a rescheduled interview adds time that no published range includes.
New York City, NY: latest published times
| Form | Range | Rank of 90 | Inquiries for receipts up to |
|---|---|---|---|
| N-400 | 10.0 to 12.5 months | 7 | September 28, 2025 |
| I-485 family-based | 14.5 to 33.5 months | 52 | January 10, 2024 |
Four years of published times
| Last publication of the year | N-400 | I-485 family |
|---|---|---|
| December 1, 2022 | 16.0 to 25.0 months | 16.5 to 35.5 months |
| December 27, 2023 | 8.5 to 12.5 months | 18.0 to 33.5 months |
| December 20, 2024 | 7.5 to 9.0 months | 13.0 to 23.0 months |
| December 18, 2025 | 8.5 to 11.0 months | 9.5 to 17.0 months |
| September 17, 2026 | 10.0 to 12.5 months | 14.5 to 33.5 months |