How long will it take?
The latest source-backed answer, tracked.

Governments publish how long applications are taking, but source pages often replace the earlier number. We record each verified value with its source, date and collection status, so you can see the latest source-backed figure—or a clearly labeled last-verified snapshot when collection closes—plus the history the source page no longer shows.

Reports and practical planning guides

• NZ Critical Purpose Visitor Visa status

  Why the COVID-era border-exception route has no honest current processing-time estimate.

• Processing-time change reports

  Permanent dated issues built from consecutive official observations, with unchanged and unavailable values kept separate.

• Canada CEC projected wait and queue

  IRCC’s current new-application projection plus its application-month estimates, kept separate from backward-looking figures.

• Canada study permit from India

  Current official time, major-route comparisons and clean clock boundaries.

• UK spouse and partner visas

  Outside, inside and private-life figures without blending different routes.

• New Zealand AEWV timeline

  The visa’s 50% and 80% measures inside the employer-led sequence.

• Norway UDI waiting times

  Nineteen preserved, dated routes with an explicit source-access warning and no personalised-form guessing.

Why trust these numbers?

Because they aren't ours. Every figure is the government's own published statistic — we just refuse to let it disappear. Each value links its official source, carries the agency's update date when supplied (or a clearly labeled first-observed date when not), includes our verification date, and joins a permanent history. Read the methodology, editorial policy and Research Desk byline.

For machines

The same records are available through free CSV downloads and dataset metadata, a free JSON API, a public MCP server for AI agents, and llms.txt. Reuse must preserve government attribution and the source-specific terms.