Processing.ie

This is an unofficial statistical tool. It does not represent any government entity, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Irish Department of Justice, the Irish Immigration Service, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, or any government agency.

Processing.ie estimates when your own application is likely to be processed for three Irish immigration tracks:

- Long-stay visa decisions
- Employment permit applications
- Irish Residence Permit (IRP) renewals

How it works

The app fits a linear regression to the last 30 days of officially published progress on the relevant government pages and uses it to estimate the snapshot date on which your application date will be reached. Each historical pair "(snapshot date, processing-as-of date)" feeds the fit; your application date is the input.

Official data sources

The processing-date information shown in this app comes only from these official Irish government pages. The relevant page is also linked from each estimate inside the app:

- Long-stay visa decisions — Irish Immigration Service (Department of Justice): https://www.irishimmigration.ie/visa-decisions/
- Employment permits — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/workplace-and-skills/employment-permits/current-application-processing-dates/
- IRP renewals — Irish Immigration Service (Department of Justice): https://www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration-permission/how-to-renew-your-current-permission/renewing-your-registration-permission-if-you-live-in-the-republic-of-ireland/

What's included

- Status-coloured result: green when your date has arrived, amber while you're still waiting
- Historical scatter plot of every "currently processing" snapshot, the fitted trend, and your application's position on the trend
- An in-app "How it works" guide that walks through the regression and links the three official Irish data sources
- An interactive "Explore history" time-slider that refits the trend on the snapshots known up to any earlier day, so you can watch how the estimate for your date settled as more data arrived
- A resizable home-screen widget (compact, square, wide) that surfaces the source page's queue-head date
- Works offline with the last downloaded copy
- Light and dark mode

Premium (optional, one-time purchase)

- Personal "N days to go" countdown on the home-screen widget, derived from your application date
- Widget refreshes itself daily in the background, so the countdown stays current without opening the app
- Processing-date alerts: an on-device notification when your estimate crosses your chosen reminder thresholds
- Removes the banner ad from the main screen

Privacy

- No analytics, no third-party SDKs beyond AdMob (for the optional banner) and Play Billing (for the optional Premium purchase).
- Your application date is stored locally on the device. It is not transmitted to any server.
- Cloud backup (Google Drive) and device-to-device transfer of your input are both disabled — uninstall wipes it, factory reset wipes it, switching phones requires re-entering.
- The only outbound network request is fetching three public JSON files from data.processing.ie, the same data the open website processing.ie uses.

What this is not

This app does not:

- Communicate with any government system or case file
- Tell you the actual decision on your application
- Submit applications or modify your case
- Provide legal or immigration advice

For the official decision on your case, contact the relevant agency directly. The original government source page is linked from each estimate.

Requirements

Android 8.0 (API 26) or higher.