New General Employment Permit Applications

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As of 10 November 2026, applications from 8 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.

As of 10 November 2026

12 October 202610 November 2026

Trend slope 0.98

Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes about a day of real time (slope ≈ 1) — so the queue is keeping pace.

Snapshots

10 November 2026 processing 8 October 2026
9 November 2026 processing 5 October 2026
6 November 2026 processing 2 October 2026
5 November 2026 processing 30 September 2026
3 November 2026 processing 25 September 2026
2 November 2026 processing 24 September 2026
30 October 2026 processing 24 September 2026
29 October 2026 processing 23 September 2026
28 October 2026 processing 22 September 2026
23 October 2026 processing 20 September 2026
22 October 2026 processing 18 September 2026
21 October 2026 processing 17 September 2026
20 October 2026 processing 16 September 2026
19 October 2026 processing 14 September 2026
16 October 2026 processing 11 September 2026
15 October 2026 processing 10 September 2026
13 October 2026 processing 8 September 2026
12 October 2026 processing 4 September 2026

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