Employment — Applications received

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  3. 3Applications or appeals
  4. 4Enter your date for an estimate

As of 10 November 2026, applications from 9 September 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
07 Aug 2628 Sept 2618 Nov 2606 Oct 2626 Nov 2617 Jan 27
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.

13 October 202610 November 2026

Trend slope 0.97

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 9 September 2026
  • 3 November 2026 processing 3 September 2026
  • 27 October 2026 processing 25 August 2026
  • 20 October 2026 processing 16 August 2026
  • 13 October 2026 processing 14 August 2026

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