New General Employment Permit Applications
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Enter your date for an estimate
As of 19 August 2026, applications from 14 July 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 0.96
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
- 19 August 2026 processing 14 July 2026
- 18 August 2026 processing 13 July 2026
- 17 August 2026 processing 10 July 2026
- 13 August 2026 processing 9 July 2026
- 12 August 2026 processing 8 July 2026
- 11 August 2026 processing 7 July 2026
- 10 August 2026 processing 6 July 2026
- 7 August 2026 processing 6 July 2026
- 31 July 2026 processing 26 June 2026
- 30 July 2026 processing 25 June 2026
- 29 July 2026 processing 24 June 2026
- 28 July 2026 processing 22 June 2026
- 27 July 2026 processing 19 June 2026
- 24 July 2026 processing 18 June 2026
- 23 July 2026 processing 17 June 2026
- 22 July 2026 processing 15 June 2026