In the past few months, Immigration processing times have improved dramatically, with the backlog of applications being mostly cleared, and new applications being processed in a matter of months rather than 18 months plus. It remains to be seen whether this will sustain itself if numbers of applications increase substantially. The Minister responsible for Immigration, Jason Hayward, has recently said that a project to digitise the department and applications, first announced in 2021, is still to get off the ground.
Regarding new pathways for PRC after 10 and 5 years,