Critical Skills Employment Permit Applications
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Enter your date for an estimate
As of 2 October 2026, applications from 25 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
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 0.94
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
- 2 October 2026 processing 25 September 2026
- 1 October 2026 processing 23 September 2026
- 30 September 2026 processing 23 September 2026
- 29 September 2026 processing 22 September 2026
- 28 September 2026 processing 18 September 2026
- 25 September 2026 processing 17 September 2026
- 24 September 2026 processing 16 September 2026
- 23 September 2026 processing 16 September 2026
- 22 September 2026 processing 11 September 2026
- 21 September 2026 processing 10 September 2026
- 11 September 2026 processing 3 September 2026
- 4 September 2026 processing 26 August 2026
- 3 September 2026 processing 25 August 2026
