Join family (Sponsor is an Irish citizen or is in Category A) — Applications received
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Applications or appeals
- 4Enter your date for an estimate
As of 11 August 2026, applications from 29 April 2024 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 1.00 (assumed)
Too few distinct points to learn a trend yet — assuming the queue clears one day's worth of applications per calendar day (a slope of 1).
Snapshots
- 11 August 2026 processing 29 April 2024
- 4 August 2026 processing 29 April 2024
- 28 July 2026 processing 29 April 2024
- 21 July 2026 processing 29 April 2024
- 14 July 2026 processing 29 April 2024
