Family Member of EU/EEA/Swiss Citizen — Appeals received

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  2. 2Choose your category
  3. 3Applications or appeals
  4. 4Enter your date for an estimate

As of 8 September 2026, appeals from 5 February 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
17 Jan 2625 May 2630 Sept 2618 Oct 2510 Sept 3101 Aug 37
Appeal 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.

11 August 20268 September 2026

Trend slope 16.83

Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes about 16.83 days of real time — more than a day each, so the backlog is slowly growing.

Snapshots

  • 8 September 2026 processing 5 February 2026
  • 1 September 2026 processing 5 February 2026
  • 25 August 2026 processing 4 February 2026
  • 20 August 2026 processing 4 February 2026
  • 11 August 2026 processing 4 February 2026

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