A Day in the Life of USCIS (2024)

On an average day in FY 2023 we:

  • Adjudicate more than 40,500 requests for various immigration benefits.
  • Process 3,800 applications to sponsor relatives and future spouses.
  • Analyze nearly 560 tips, leads, cases and detections for potential fraud, public safety and national security concerns.
  • Process refugee applications around the world in support of the refugee admissions ceiling of 15,000 refugees for fiscal year 2022.
  • Grant asylum to 163 individuals already in the United States.
  • Screen more than 547 people for protection based on a credible fear of persecution or torture if they return home.
  • Serve 800 people at in-person appointments for document services and other urgent needs.
  • Fingerprint and photograph 12,000 people at 130 application support centers.
  • Approve applications and petitions to help unite 3 foreign-born orphans with the Americans who want to adopt them.
  • Grant lawful permanent residence to more than 2,300 people and issue nearly 9,200 Green Cards.
  • Welcome more than 3,400 new citizens at naturalization ceremonies—that’s one every 25 seconds in a 24-hour period. Typically, about 47 of these new citizens are members of the U.S. armed forces.
  • Ensure the employment eligibility of 100,000 new hires in the United States.
  • Receive 60,000 phone calls to our toll-free phone line and more than 150,000 inquiries and service requests via online accounts and digital self-help tools.
  • Receive 1.5 million visitor sessions to our website.
  • Conduct automated verifications on employment eligibility and immigration status for more than 124,000 cases in E-Verify and 52,000 cases in SAVE.
  • Conduct manual reviews of eligibility and immigration status for more than 1,300 cases in E-Verify and 7,000 cases in SAVE.
  • Resolve more than 1,000 phone calls and 450 emails related to E-Verify and SAVE inquiries.
  • Process more than 1,500 Form I-134A supporter applications for Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela
  • Process 900 Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act requests.

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Averages are based on fiscal year 2023 data.

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