New General Employment Permit Applications

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As of 11 September 2026, applications from 6 August 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 11 September 2026

13 August 202611 September 2026

Trend slope 0.95

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

11 September 2026 processing 6 August 2026
4 September 2026 processing 30 July 2026
3 September 2026 processing 29 July 2026
2 September 2026 processing 29 July 2026
1 September 2026 processing 28 July 2026
31 August 2026 processing 24 July 2026
28 August 2026 processing 23 July 2026
27 August 2026 processing 22 July 2026
26 August 2026 processing 21 July 2026
25 August 2026 processing 19 July 2026
24 August 2026 processing 16 July 2026
21 August 2026 processing 14 July 2026
20 August 2026 processing 14 July 2026
19 August 2026 processing 14 July 2026
18 August 2026 processing 13 July 2026
17 August 2026 processing 10 July 2026
13 August 2026 processing 9 July 2026

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