Newark field office: New Jersey’s busiest USCIS queue
New Jersey has three USCIS field offices; Newark covers the northern counties and carries the longest family green card queue of the three.
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and past error
N-400 naturalization
Within normal time
Too early for a case inquiry.
| Published range, Newark, NJ | 11.5 to 15.5 months |
|---|---|
| Time since your receipt date | 12.4 months |
| USCIS takes inquiries for receipts on or before | July 6, 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
USCIS publishes 11.5 to 15.5 months for naturalization at the Newark field office, rank 43 of 90, and 22 to 38 months for family-based adjustment of status, rank 70. New Jersey’s other two offices sit on either side of it. Mount Laurel, in the south, publishes 10 to 14.5 months for Form N-400 and 21.5 to 33.5 months for the family I-485. Cranbury, the newest office in the data, which appears in the published series only from September 2024, shows 9 to 12 months for naturalization, among the very fastest in the country, and 17 to 34.5 months for the family green card. The upper figure of each range is the time within which USCIS completes 80% of cases. At Newark, USCIS accepts a case inquiry for N-400 receipts dated on or before July 6, 2025 and family I-485 receipts on or before August 28, 2023. All figures: USCIS publication of September 17, 2026.
Three New Jersey offices compared
Newark is the largest of the three and, for family adjustment, the slowest: its upper bound of 38 months compares with 33.5 at Mount Laurel and 34.5 at Cranbury. For naturalization, the order is the opposite of what size would suggest, with Cranbury near the top of the national ranking.
Since 2022
When our records begin, on March 14, 2022, Newark published 13 to 19.5 months for the N-400 and 13 to 27.5 months for the family I-485. The upper bounds have since moved by -4 and +10.5 months.
Your receipt date is what matters
A published range describes the office, not your file. Enter the receipt date from Form I-797C in the checker above to see how far along you are and whether the inquiry window is open. Keep your address current with USCIS: a move between New Jersey counties can send the file to another office.
What the family figure covers
The family-based I-485 range at Newark covers spouses, parents and children of U.S. citizens as well as preference relatives whose priority date is current. For a spouse of a citizen, it is close to the whole wait inside the country; for a sibling or adult child, the Visa Bulletin wait comes first and can last many years longer than anything the office publishes. Newark’s naturalization queue, by contrast, depends only on the office itself.
Newark, NJ: latest published times
| Form | Range | Rank of 90 | Inquiries for receipts up to |
|---|---|---|---|
| N-400 | 11.5 to 15.5 months | 43 | July 6, 2025 |
| I-485 family-based | 22.0 to 38.0 months | 70 | August 28, 2023 |
Four years of published times
| Last publication of the year | N-400 | I-485 family |
|---|---|---|
| December 1, 2022 | 15.5 to 24.5 months | 21.0 to 36.0 months |
| December 27, 2023 | 10.0 to 13.0 months | 17.5 to 29.5 months |
| December 20, 2024 | 7.0 to 10.0 months | 18.0 to 35.5 months |
| December 18, 2025 | 7.5 to 12.0 months | 15.5 to 35.0 months |
| September 17, 2026 | 11.5 to 15.5 months | 22.0 to 38.0 months |