Hi all,

Submitted my application for a third year working holiday visa, thanks to the changes implemented on July 1st (increased age to 35 and removed regional work).

I submitted my application on July 1st and have had zero movement (YET).... 50% get processed within 24 hours apparently..

Anyone else in the same situation?


Thanks!

I'm the same I applied on 1st July whilst still 35 yrs old and was issued a bridging visa instantly but although my previous WHV's took a day or so, immigration have received thousands of applications from UK from 1st July therefore a huge back log, so can be any time and no set processing times as far as I'm aware.

The 50% processing might well still apply to first or second WHVs but there's no way of predicting processing time for the third when its so new.

Hi both,

Thanks a lot for your replies. Yeah, still unfortunately nothing after 31 days, thought it would be relatively quick based on past experience but appreciate it's a new visa and will be a lot of applications.

I wonder if the global processing times will be updated tomorrow some kind of useful timescales would be helpful, it's not the most complicated of visas!

Still nothing... anyone else able to share some hope, appreciate three has been a lot of applications, but if they haven't got through day ones so far, slightly worrying how long this could take..!!

I suspect they were rather swamped on day one, you'll just have to be patient I'm afraid.