Enter your receipt date, category, and USCIS office. See the current published range, the case-inquiry cutoff, and the exact date you can ask USCIS about your case.
USCIS publishes how long most cases like yours take. Once your case has waited longer than that boundary, their own online inquiry form will accept a question about it. Before the boundary it will not, no matter who asks - including lawyers.
No. The published range says how long most cases take. The inquiry cutoff is a separate line USCIS draws, and it moves when USCIS updates its data. This page shows both, from USCIS directly.
No. That number is a national median for already-completed immediate-relative cases. Your own line depends on your category and the office holding your case, which is what this checker uses.
The expedite path is never date-locked: USCIS decides those on published criteria any day. And your inquiry date is worth watching, because it moves. The free check lists every move your case allows, each with its date.
Your dates, watched daily. One email when a move opens.