Critical Skills Employment Permit Applications
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Enter your date for an estimate
As of 10 November 2026, applications from 28 October 2026 are being processed.
How the processing date has advanced
Each green dot is a snapshot of the official page: the date posted (vertical axis) against the application date it said it was processing (horizontal axis). The line is the fitted trend the estimate uses.
Date posted by the official page
Application date being processed
Explore history
Drag the slider to an earlier date to refit the trend using only the snapshots known up to that day — later snapshots fade out.
Trend slope 1.23
Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes about 1.23 days of real time — more than a day each, so the backlog is slowly growing.
Snapshots
- 10 November 2026 processing 28 October 2026
- 9 November 2026 processing 24 October 2026
- 6 November 2026 processing 24 October 2026
- 5 November 2026 processing 24 October 2026
- 3 November 2026 processing 23 October 2026
- 2 November 2026 processing 23 October 2026
- 30 October 2026 processing 21 October 2026
- 29 October 2026 processing 21 October 2026
- 28 October 2026 processing 20 October 2026
- 23 October 2026 processing 16 October 2026
- 22 October 2026 processing 15 October 2026
- 21 October 2026 processing 13 October 2026
- 20 October 2026 processing 12 October 2026
- 19 October 2026 processing 9 October 2026
- 16 October 2026 processing 7 October 2026
- 15 October 2026 processing 6 October 2026
- 13 October 2026 processing 6 October 2026
- 12 October 2026 processing 6 October 2026
