To provide a bleach-fixing composition for a silver halide color photographic sensitive material which ensures excellent light resistance and magenta stain resistance of a yellow image of the silver halide color photographic sensitive material after development, and to provide a processing method for a silver halide color photographic sensitive material using the composition.

The bleach-fixing composition for a silver halide color photographic sensitive material contains a ferric complex salt of an aminopolycarboxylic acid, a fixing agent and nitrate ions, and is housed in a container at a void ratio of 3-30%.