St. Louis Immigration Attorney Jim Hacking on Sept 2013 DACA statistics

USCIS released the statistics on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals through August of 2012.  According to USCIS, 588,000 DACA applications have been received since the program began in August of 2012.  USCIS has received roughly 2100 DACA applications per day over the 13 month period, with the vast majority of those having occurred in the first 6 months.

Of those applications received, 21,000 were rejected.  455,000 DACA applications have been approved.  Almost 10,000 have been denied.

In Missouri, USCIS has accepted 2,459 DACA applications and approved 2,003 of those.