Expatriates Unit
Employers have the facility to view and modify all submitted applications from the Single Permit Online Portal. The real-time status of an application is visible from the application dashboard. The meaning of each status can be found in the section Online Portal-Status Description within the User Manual.
Third-country nationals, on whose behalf an application is submitted, may also view the status of their own application by following the same link they had received by e-mail.
Subsidiary Legislation 217.17 allows four (4) months for the processing of a Single Permit application, however the average processing time is closer to two (2) months, from the date of submission of applications accompanied by all required documents