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I-821

I-821 processing times

Requests or renews Temporary Protected Status for a designated country.

Cases like yours (I-821) typically take about 5.9–11.9 months based on recent USCIS historic national median processing times.

Latest USCIS national median: 11.9 months (FY2026, To request or reregister for TPS). Displayed band is the min–max of the latest three available fiscal-year medians.

These figures come from USCIS historic national medians (min–max of recent fiscal years for the form’s main classification), not a prediction for your case. They are not comparable to the live Case Processing Times tool.

Source: USCIS historic processing times. egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt

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