Tourism or visit a family/friend — Appeals received
- 1Choose your application
- 2Choose your category
- 3Applications or appeals
- 4Enter your date for an estimate
As of 11 August 2026, appeals from 5 June 2025 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
Appeal 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 0.17
Read it as pace: clearing one day's worth of applications takes only about 0.17 days of real time — less than a day each, so the queue is catching up.
Snapshots
- 11 August 2026 processing 5 June 2025
- 4 August 2026 processing 29 May 2025
- 28 July 2026 processing 29 May 2025
- 21 July 2026 processing 12 May 2025
- 14 July 2026 processing 29 January 2025
