Critical Skills Employment Permit Applications
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Enter your date for an estimate
As of 19 August 2026, applications from 12 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.
Trend slope 0.81
Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes only about 0.81 days of real time — less than a day each, so the queue is catching up.
Snapshots
- 19 August 2026 processing 12 August 2026
- 18 August 2026 processing 10 August 2026
- 17 August 2026 processing 7 August 2026
- 13 August 2026 processing 4 August 2026
- 12 August 2026 processing 31 July 2026
- 11 August 2026 processing 30 July 2026
- 10 August 2026 processing 28 July 2026
- 7 August 2026 processing 28 July 2026
- 31 July 2026 processing 17 July 2026
- 30 July 2026 processing 17 July 2026
- 29 July 2026 processing 15 July 2026
- 28 July 2026 processing 14 July 2026
- 27 July 2026 processing 14 July 2026
- 24 July 2026 processing 10 July 2026
- 23 July 2026 processing 8 July 2026
- 22 July 2026 processing 7 July 2026
