US Approves over 76,000 DACA work permits
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 76,053 work permits for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme between April 1 and June 30, 2026.
The approvals primarily came from renewals of existing permits, with 76,032 renewals granted and only 21 replacements approved. USCIS did not approve any new initial DACA work permit applications during this period, focusing instead on processing the existing backlog of renewal requests.
USCIS received over 81,000 initial and renewal applications during the quarter, but a large number of applications remained unprocessed. At the end of June 2026, 231,872 DACA work permit applications were still pending, including over 100,000 initial applications. The agency denied a small percentage of applications, roughly 0.6%, with 478 renewal denials and 4 replacement denials. DACA approvals represented approximately 20.8% of all Employment Authorisation Documents (EADs) approved by USCIS during the second quarter of 2026.
The data originated from the USCIS CLAIMS3 and ELIS systems.
