Join family (Sponsor is in Category B) — Applications received

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

As of 29 September 2026, applications from 28 June 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
04 Feb 2410 Jul 2514 Dec 2614 Aug 2620 Dec 2626 Apr 27
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.

1 September 202629 September 2026

Trend slope 0.24

Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes only about 0.24 days of real time — less than a day each, so the queue is catching up.

Snapshots

  • 29 September 2026 processing 28 June 2024
  • 22 September 2026 processing 28 June 2024
  • 15 September 2026 processing 28 June 2024
  • 8 September 2026 processing 16 April 2024
  • 1 September 2026 processing 16 April 2024

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