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

  1. 1Choose your application
  2. 2Choose your category
  3. 3Applications or appeals
  4. 4Enter your date for an estimate

As of 14 July 2026, applications from 9 January 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
18 Dec 2510 Apr 2601 Aug 2627 Apr 2627 Apr 2725 Apr 28
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.

16 June 202614 July 2026

Trend slope 3.23

Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes about 3.23 days of real time — more than a day each, so the backlog is slowly growing.

Snapshots

  • 14 July 2026 processing 9 January 2026
  • 7 July 2026 processing 9 January 2026
  • 30 June 2026 processing 9 January 2026
  • 23 June 2026 processing 4 January 2026
  • 16 June 2026 processing 3 January 2026

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