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I went through the latest official USCIS naturalization data (Form N-400, FY2026 Q1) and the headline numbers are genuinely encouraging — but they hide the part that actually affects you.

The national picture:

• 247,840 new N-400s filed last quarter
• 143,564 approved vs 18,054 denied — an ~89% approval rate
• 611,463 pending nationwide, down from the pandemic peak of 1,015,055 (FY2021 Q1). That's a ~40% drop in the backlog.

So on paper, things are moving. Here's the catch: there is no "national" wait. Your N-400 is processed at one of 93 field offices, and the queue at your office is what sets your timeline — not the country-wide average. Two people who filed the same week in different cities can be a year apart, purely based on geography.

That's the number most people never look up. So I'd check yours before assuming the "backlog is down" headline applies to you.

You can find your specific field office — its pending queue, approvals, and how it stacks up against the biggest offices in the country — here: https://www.inmigreat.com/en/analytics/n-400/

Pulled the official USCIS data (FY2026 Q1). There are 2,348,518 I-130s pending — and your I-130 is adjudicated at a service center, not your local field office. Five centers hold 87.6% of everything:

• Vermont (ESC) — 467,776
• California (WSC) — 447,757
• Texas (SSC) — 391,861
• Nebraska (NSC) — 375,540
• Potomac (YSC) — 374,517

The takeaway: where your case waits has nothing to do with where you live — it's USCIS workload distribution, not your zip code. (This quarter they received 194K and approved 188K, ~87.5% approval rate.)

Full interactive breakdown by category, country, and approvals here: https://www.inmigreat.com/analytics/i-130/ — the app's free, tracks USCIS + EOIR cases in real time. Just sharing the data. Questions welcome 👇