USCIS Orlando Field Office Processing Times: Current Waits for I-130, I-485, I-765 and N-400, Updated Monthly

Last updated: September 15, 2026. Every figure on this page was read off USCIS's processing-times tool on that date. The page is refreshed monthly and each month's readings are kept, so the history below grows over time.

USCIS publishes a processing time for every form it handles, but only as a lookup tool: one form, one category, one office at a time, and nothing you can link to or compare. This page pulls the figures that matter to a Central Florida filer into one table, with the date they were read, so you can see what the Orlando Field Office and the centers that serve it are actually taking right now.

How to read the numbers. USCIS defines each figure as the time within which it completed 80 percent of the cases it decided over the previous six months. It is a reference point, not a promise: your case can finish sooner or take longer, and the figure moves every month. The two field-office forms (N-400 and family-based I-485) are tied to Orlando because that is where the interview happens. The I-130 and I-765 are worked at the National Benefits Center or at Service Center Operations, which USCIS now lists as one entity rather than by the old service-center names; your receipt notice says which one holds your file.

Current processing times for Orlando filers

For scale, the same N-400 figure at the two neighboring Florida field offices, Tampa and Jacksonville, was 13 months in Tampa and 14.5 months in Jacksonville on the same date, so Orlando is currently the quickest of the three for naturalization.

How the figures have moved month by month

Each month's reading is kept here as it was published, so the chart is built only from this page's own snapshots, not from estimates. With one month recorded it shows a single point per form; the lines fill in as months are added.

What this means for your case

N-400, naturalization: 11.5 months at Orlando

The Orlando figure covers the whole N-400, from receipt to decision, including the biometrics appointment and the interview at 6680 Corporate Centre Blvd. Because the number is an 80th-percentile figure over the last six months, a clean file often finishes sooner and a file with a travel, tax or arrest history can take longer. The 90-day early-filing rule under INA § 334(a) lets you file up to three months before you reach the five-year or three-year mark, which is worth using when the queue is this long. What the interview and the civics test involve is on our citizenship and naturalization page, and the step-by-step is in our guide to applying for U.S. citizenship in Orlando.

I-485, family-based adjustment: 16.5 months at Orlando

This is the green card interview stage for people who are already in the United States and adjusting through a spouse, parent or child. The figure runs from receipt to decision and includes the wait for the interview slot at the Orlando office. If you filed the I-130 and the I-485 together, the two run in parallel; the adjustment cannot be approved before the petition is. Our permanent residency page covers what the interview checks, and the family-based visa page explains which relatives qualify and in which category.

I-130, family petition: 24 to 52.5 months depending on where it is worked

The same immediate-relative petition shows 24 months at Service Center Operations and 52.5 months at the National Benefits Center. That is not a typo, and you do not get to choose: your receipt notice tells you which one has the file. Petitions for a spouse or child of a permanent resident (the F2A category) show 52 months at the National Benefits Center, and for that category the wait for a visa number in the Visa Bulletin adds to the processing wait rather than running alongside it. If the number on your notice is worse than the one here, the tool's own "case inquiry date" feature, linked below, tells you when USCIS will accept a question about it.

I-765, work permit: 1 to 12.5 months depending on the basis

The basis for the work permit matters more than anything else. An initial permit on a pending asylum application, category (c)(8), is currently at 1 month. A permit based on granted asylum, (a)(5), is at 3.5 months. A permit tied to a pending I-485, (c)(9), is at 11 to 12.5 months, which is why we file it in the same envelope as the adjustment rather than later. The eligibility categories, renewals and the automatic extension rules are in our Florida work permit (EAD) guide.

I-589, asylum: no published office figure

USCIS does not put the I-589 in its processing-times tool. Affirmative asylum interviews for Florida are scheduled by the Miami Asylum Office under a separate scheduling policy that USCIS publishes on its own page, and defensive asylum, filed in front of an immigration judge, is measured by the court's docket rather than by USCIS. For a Central Florida case that means the Orlando Immigration Court; our immigration court by the numbers page covers what is published about that queue. The asylum process itself is on our asylum page.

How to check your own case

Three USCIS tools answer the questions this page cannot answer for you individually. Case Status Online takes the receipt number from your notice and shows the last action on the file. The processing-times tool gives the current figure for your exact form, category and office, and, if you enter your receipt date, a case inquiry date: the day after which USCIS will accept a question about a case that has run past the normal window. Before that date, an inquiry is answered with a form letter. If you have a USCIS online account, the same tool shows an estimated timeline for your own case.

Two habits save more time than any inquiry. Keep your address current with USCIS, because a notice mailed to the last address USCIS has on file counts as delivered to you. And read every notice for a deadline, since an unanswered request for evidence ends in a denial for abandonment regardless of where the case sits in the queue.

Methodology and reuse

Every figure on this page is read directly from the USCIS Case Processing Times tool at egov.uscis.gov, selecting the form, the category and the office named in each row, on the date shown at the top. Nothing is averaged, estimated or carried over from an earlier month; when USCIS shows "see notes" instead of a figure, the table says so. USCIS updates the tool on its own schedule, and this page is re-read once a month; a reading is never changed after the fact, so the history table is a record of what USCIS published, not a model of it. The definition of the figure (the time within which 80 percent of adjudicated cases were completed over the prior six months) is USCIS's own wording.

You may republish these figures with attribution and a link to this page. Every heading, every table row and every headline figure carries a stable anchor id, so you can link to a single row rather than the whole page.

This page is general information about published processing times, not legal advice about your case. Eligibility, deadlines and the office that holds your file turn on facts specific to you.

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