USCIS Tampa Field Office

Tampa’s green card line is mostly humanitarian

USCIS’s field office counts for April to June 2026 show where Tampa’s I-485 backlog sits.

Source: USCIS I-485 performance data by field office, FY2026 Q3, April 1 to June 30, 2026. USCIS defines humanitarian as asylee, refugee, Indochinese and Cuban refugee cases. The total also includes 102 pending “other” cases (HRIFA, trafficking or crime victims).

Humanitarian cases were 74.4% of everything Tampa had pending. By our count of USCIS’s rows, its 34,695 was the third-largest humanitarian pile of any field office, and its 46,609 total was second only to Houston. Employment cases are also slow here: 1,255 came in and 122 were decided.

USCIS’s national medians for these groups, for cases completed nationwide in April to June 2026: Cuban 16.3 months (342,360 pending), refugee 17.6 months (149,470 pending), asylum 25.6 months (126,267 pending) (All Forms by Quarter, FY2026 Q3). They are national, not Tampa’s, and the office file groups these categories together.

Naturalization in Tampa

Source: USCIS N-400 performance data by field office, FY2026 Q3. “Not reported” means USCIS withheld the figure. Tampa decided 1,345 civilian N-400s, the 13th-most of any field office, and denied 14.4% of them; nationally the share was 18.6%.

Our backlog ratio next to the national medians

We divide what was pending by what was decided (approved plus denied) in the quarter. This is our rough indicator from USCIS counts, not a USCIS processing time, and it is not counted in months. Rounded to one decimal.

“All field offices” sums the 93 field office rows in the same files (for the N-400, seven offices had denials withheld). Across all I-485 categories Tampa’s ratio was 30.8, sixth-highest of 89 field offices in our ranking, against 11.9 for all field offices. A humanitarian ratio of 354 does not mean 354 months: it means Tampa decided very few of these cases in one quarter compared with how many it holds.

Address, district and the counties Tampa serves

The USCIS locator lists the Tampa Field Office at 5629 Hoover Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33634, and marks it as the district office (locator data, Aug 28, 2026 file). Orlando and Fort Myers fall in the same district. USCIS asks you to confirm the address on your notice; it does not post visiting hours for Tampa on uscis.gov.

Active ZIP codes assigned to Tampa, by county: Hillsborough 93, Pinellas 72, Polk 55, Pasco 34, Manatee 30, Citrus 21, Sarasota 20, Hernando 14, Hardee 4 and one in Lee. Sarasota County is split with Fort Myers: Sarasota, Nokomis and Osprey go to Tampa; Venice, North Port and Englewood go to Fort Myers.

Ratios: our rough indicator, civilian N-400 and all I-485 categories, from the same USCIS files for April to June 2026. Your ZIP code, not your choice, sets the office.

Visiting the Tampa office

Every visit needs an appointment; USCIS field offices do not accept walk-ins. Interview and oath ceremony notices come by mail with the place and time. USCIS publishes no ceremony venue for Tampa: the oath can be the same day as the interview, or Form N-445 is mailed with the date, time and location (naturalization ceremonies).

If you were looking for InfoPass: to ask for an appointment yourself today, request it online or call the Contact Center at 800-375-5283 (TTY 800-767-1833), Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm Eastern. These are for things that cannot be done by phone, mail or email, such as emergency travel documents or proof of status.

Payments work differently. USCIS does not accept walk-in payments at field offices; for emergency advance parole on Form I-131, you call the Contact Center for an appointment and pay with Form G-1450 (card) or G-1650 (bank transfer). If something goes wrong during a visit, USCIS says you can raise it with a supervisor or the field office director while you are still there (Field Offices).

If your Tampa case is outside normal processing time

1. Find Tampa’s current range for your form on the USCIS processing times page. USCIS does not research cases that are within it.
2. Past it, submit a case inquiry through e-Request.
3. For an emergency, read the expedite criteria. USCIS notes that asylum and refugee applications involve urgent humanitarian situations by their nature, so filing one, standing alone, generally may not justify an expedite without other compelling factors.
4. Keep your address current with USCIS.

The YourCaseStatus app (coming soon) will alert you when your status changes.

Related pages

• I-485 processing time and N-400 processing time
• Case is ready to be scheduled for an interview
• Other field offices: Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston
• USCIS case status and our status index