What is this site?
People waiting on an Australian visa ask three things: how long does it usually take, where am I in the queue, and is it getting faster or slower. The Department publishes the figures that answer them, but its page shows only today's numbers. This site saves them every day for all 74 visa streams, shows how they changed, and lets you place your own lodgement date against them without an account.
Who runs it?
Visa Processing Time is an independent Australian project. It is not run by a government body, a migration agency or a law firm, and no one pays it to show their services. It does not give migration advice, it does not predict individual outcomes, and it cannot see or speed up any application.
Questions about your own application belong with the Department or a registered migration agent. To tell us about a figure, use the form at the bottom of this page.
Where do the figures come from?
Every figure is one the Department of Home Affairs publishes:
- Visa processing times: the Department's global visa processing times tool, four percentiles for each of 74 streams.
- Lodgement months being processed: banners on the official visa pages for the skilled visas.
- Parent visa queues: the Department's parent visa queue page.
- Citizenship: the citizenship processing times page and the ceremony wait times page.
- History from before our own daily copies, back to June 2025, comes from public archives of the same official pages and from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Each is credited where it is used.
We do not publish survey results or figures sent in by users. The method page explains how each number is read and counted.
How often is it updated?
A scheduled script reads the official pages every night at about 10:40 pm Australian Eastern time, and the site is rebuilt straight after. A second, independent run is scheduled about an hour later to check the first copy. It runs on GitHub, which often starts scheduled jobs late, sometimes not until early morning; if by then a new day has begun and no copy has been taken for it, that run takes one. So the time below can be in the early morning. The last successful check was . The Department changes its own figures irregularly, about once a month; when it updates is tracked on the method page. If our check has not succeeded for 36 hours, every page shows an amber notice saying so.
Is this a government site?
No. Visa Processing Time is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the Department of Home Affairs or any government body. It republishes the Department's figures, which the Department provides under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (see its copyright page). The official source for any decision is always immi.homeaffairs.gov.au.
What if a figure here is wrong?
Tell us with "Spotted a wrong figure?" at the bottom of any page with figures, including this one. It needs no name or email. Our script re-reads the official pages every day, so a Department update reaches this site within a day. We check every report against the official page; when a figure here was wrong, the fix is listed with its date in the corrections log. The corrections log is on the method page.
Can I use the data?
Yes. The figures and their history are free to download as CSV and JSON on the open data page, under CC BY 4.0. Credit Visa Processing Time with a link, and the Department of Home Affairs as the source of the figures. Each visa page also has a ready-made citation and HTML link to copy.
Two licences apply. The Department's figures are under CC BY 3.0 AU; our compilation of them (daily copies, history, lodgement month statements) is under CC BY 4.0. When you quote or reuse figures from this site, credit both, for example:
Source: Visa Processing Time (visaprocessingtime.com.au), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), from processing time figures published by the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs under CC BY 3.0 AU (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/).
What does it collect about me?
No accounts and no cookies. The lodgement date you enter is worked out in your browser and stays there unless you share a link or an image of your result. Visits are counted without cookies. A report keeps what you type and the page it came from for 12 months. It reaches us through ntfy.sh, a third-party notification service. To limit repeat reports, we also keep a salted hash of your network address for 48 hours, then delete it. The details are under statistics and privacy on the method page.