Methodology: measured internally from ClientView's application records, 3,832 applications lodged January 2025 to June 2026, updated on the 1st of every month. Headline result: 98.7% of applications cleared AusCheck's background check within three weeks once lodged, against AusCheck's own national guidance of 75% within three weeks. ClientView controls lodgement only; AusCheck controls the background check.
98.7%
of ClientView's 3,832-application sample (January 2025 to June 2026) cleared AusCheck's background check within three weeks once lodged, against AusCheck's national guidance of 75%.
1 day
Median: identity verification to AusCheck lodgement. Automated, nothing sits in a queue.
2 days
Median AusCheck background check clearance. About 7 in 10 clear within a week.
87%
of cards printed and despatched within 2 business days of approval.
11 days
Median, identity verification to card despatch, end to end. 62% within 2 weeks, 76% within 3 weeks.
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Stage 1, ClientView: from a complete, paid, identity-verified application to lodgement with AusCheck. Measured median: 1 business day (12 months to June 2026).
Stage 2, AusCheck: the government background check itself, timed from the date AusCheck receives a complete application. This stage is outside any issuing body's control.
AusCheck (the government agency that runs the background check) reports that 75% of applications nationally are processed within three weeks, with some taking three to eight weeks. In ClientView's own sample of 3,832 applications from January 2025 to June 2026, 98.7% cleared within three weeks once lodged. We believe the gap reflects lodgement quality: a complete, accurate application gives AusCheck nothing to query. Both figures are stated with their scope made explicit so neither is mistaken for the other.
Stage 1 timing is measured internally by ClientView from the timestamp an application is marked complete, paid and identity-verified to the timestamp it is lodged with AusCheck, across all ClientView applications in the stated period. The 75% Stage 2 figure is AusCheck's own published national guidance, not independently audited by ClientView. The 98.7% figure is measured internally by ClientView from lodgement date to AusCheck approval date, across 3,832 ClientView applications lodged over the 18 months from January 2025 to June 2026; it describes ClientView's own applicants only and is not a benchmark of other issuing bodies. This page is updated on the 1st of every month.
3 July 2026: page drafted from existing measured data. 4 July 2026: Stage 1 median corrected from 2 days to 1 business day to match measured data, 98.7% figure reframed as ClientView's own result vs AusCheck's 75% national average, and page published. 15 August 2026: sample size for the 98.7% figure corrected from a 1,500-application January to June 2026 subsample to the full 3,832-application, 18-month dataset (January 2025 to June 2026), to remove a conflicting N. 18 August 2026: page rebuilt as the site's single processing-times authority, methodology moved into the lead, and cadence fixed to the 1st of every month.