How long does the CSP application typically take to be approved after entering preliminary review, before booking a VFS appointment?

Once your documents enter preliminary review on the portal, you are usually looking at 2 days to 2 weeks before you can book your VFS appointment. How clean your first upload is matters more than anything else for how fast that review moves.

Typical Review Timelines

What Helps Or Hurts Your Timeline

• A correction request restarts part of the review, so blurry or missing documents cost you real time.
• Once corrected files are uploaded, reviews often move again within hours rather than days.
• Register on VFS using the exact same email you used on the CSP portal to avoid booking errors.

My Advice

Have every document scanned clearly and named correctly before you start your CSP upload so you avoid a correction loop entirely, and once you see your status change to approved, log into VFS immediately using the matching email address to grab your booking link before slots fill up.