Visa Processing Time is an independent site. It copies the visa processing time figures the Department of Home Affairs publishes, checks them every day, and keeps the history the official page overwrites. It is not a government site and it does not give migration advice.
Where does each visa processing time come from?
Every figure comes from the Department's global visa processing times tool. On 14 November 2026 it listed a processing time for 74 visa streams across 41 subclasses. For each stream the Department publishes four percentiles: the number of days within which 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% of decided applications were finalised.
- The Department gives each percentile as text, such as "22 months", and as a number of days. We show the days and keep the text beside them.
- Each figure carries the Department's own update date. We print that date and, separately, the date we last checked.
- For 7 skilled visas (186, 189, 190, 191, 482, 491, 494) the Department also states, in a banner on the visa page, which lodgement month each priority group has reached. We read those banners from the official pages.
- Parent visas (103, 804, 143, 173, 864, 884) are capped and queued and are not in the tool. Their pages use the Department's parent visa queue page: the queue release date, the lodgement month reached at queue assessment, and the estimate for a new application. Copies of that page before 13 November 2026 come from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
- Citizenship figures come from the Department's citizenship processing times page: the 25th to 90th percentiles for conferral, descent and evidence, and the counts of applications on hand and received. We show the Department's wording ("38 days", "5 months"); charts convert months to days at 30.44 days a month. Copies before 13 November 2026 come from the Wayback Machine, with no copy between October 2024 and August 2025.
How often is each processing time checked?
A script reads the official tool once a day and saves a dated copy. A second, independent run later the same day compares its copy with the first and flags any difference. When a visa processing time changes, the old value stays in the history with the dates it was first and last seen.
- Our own daily copies start in November 2026. Banner statements have been archived daily since 14 November 2026.
- Figures from June 2025 up to that point were rebuilt from public archives of the same official tool. They mark the days those archives recorded a value, so a change may have happened a few days before the date shown.
- Credit: the earlier readings come from the public change log kept at github.com/Maydaytyh/visa, which recorded the same official tool. Each value is a figure the Department published at the time.
- We have 17 official updates on record. "Change" on any page compares the current processing time with the value before its latest change.
How is the day count on the result card worked out?
You enter a lodgement date. The page counts the days from that date to today in your browser and places the count against the official 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% marks. The two dates on the card are your lodgement date plus the 50% and 90% processing time. This is arithmetic on published percentiles. It is not a predicted decision date. The date you enter is not sent anywhere.
How is the Processing Pressure Index calculated? 53 out of 100 on 14 November 2026
The index is one 0 to 100 reading that describes how the official processing time figures moved. It is calculated, not judged, and every input is a figure the Department publishes.
PPI = 100 × (0.35 × slower share + 0.30 × drift + 0.35 × queue lag)
- Slower share: streams whose 50% figure rose since the previous official update, divided by all streams with a figure.
- Drift: median percentage change in the 50% figure, clipped to plus or minus 25% and mapped to 0 to 1.
- Queue lag: average number of months between today and the lodgement month the Department says it is processing, divided by 24 and capped at 1.
Every input is a figure the Department of Home Affairs publishes. Bands: 0 to 39 Low, 40 to 59 Moderate, 60 to 79 Elevated, 80 to 100 High. The index describes how the published figures moved. It says nothing about any single application and it is not advice.
Drift is clipped at plus or minus 25% and queue lag tops out at 24 months. Where the Department publishes no lodgement month for a visa, the reading uses the first two components only and is rescaled to 100. The working for the reading across all visas today:
| Component | Score 0 to 1 | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slower share38 of 72 streams have a higher 50% figure than at the previous official update. | 0.53 | 0.35 | 18.5 |
| DriftMedian change in the 50% figure is +1.0%. Minus 25% scores 0, no change scores 0.50, plus 25% scores 1. | 0.52 | 0.30 | 15.6 |
| Queue lagPublished lodgement months are 13.0 months behind today on average. Scale tops out at 24 months. | 0.54 | 0.35 | 19.0 |
| Reading | 53.0 |
The weights are a starting point chosen by this site and may be revised. Any revision will be dated in the corrections section below.
What does a visa processing time leave out? 5 things
- It counts decided applications only. Applications still waiting are not in the percentiles.
- It describes the recent past. It is not a forecast.
- It is not split by country, occupation or whether the applicant was in Australia.
- Separate steps such as nominations and sponsorships have their own processing time.
- It says nothing about any single application. Nobody outside the Department can see individual cases.
What does this site not publish?
- No predicted decision date for an individual application.
- No grant rates and no suggestions about when or whether to lodge.
- No figures from surveys or user submissions. Every number is an official one.
Corrections to visa processing time figures
When a figure on this site is found to differ from the official source, the fix is listed here with its date. No corrections have been recorded as of 14 November 2026.