How long is the NFA wait right now?

Real Form 1 & Form 4 approval times, reported by people who actually filed. See where your own wait stands — free, no login.

Form 4 · Individual

~3 days

2–5 days typical

Form 4 · Trust

~12 days

6–23 days typical · turned around

Form 1 · Individual

~3 days

2–4 days typical · turned around

Form 1 · Trust

~15 days

6–30 days typical · turned around

From 323 approvals reported in the last 30 days

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Queue Intelligence

90-day window

Operational Frontier

Oldest filing months still seeing meaningful recent approvals

Form 4 · IndividualAug 2026

Form 4 · TrustJul 2026

Form 1 · IndividualAug 2026

Form 1 · TrustJul 2026

Active Cohorts

Filing months with recent approvals in the last 30 days

Form 43

Form 14

Combined4

90-Day Wait Distribution

Typical range · median · by filing type

Form 1 · Individual

496 approvals

23dmedian·5–56d typical range

Form 4 · Individual

324 approvals

5dmedian

Form 1 · Trust waits changed direction — rose from 52 to 83 days between Mar 2026 and Jul 2026, then fell to 30 in Aug 2026. No single monthly rate covers both legs.
Form 1 · Individual waits changed direction — rose from 52 to 69 days between Mar 2026 and Jun 2026, then fell to 5 in Aug 2026. No single monthly rate covers both legs.
Approval signal distributed across 4 active cohort windows. Broad-front advancement detected — no dominant compression zone.

QueueAdvancing—Approvals are concentrated in August 2026 filings — the queue is processing relatively recent submissions.

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4,175 approvals tracked across 47 states

Latest reported approval: yesterday

Context

Cohort Activity Map

Two queue surfaces — shared scale, shared timeline, synchronized hover

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Frontier:Aug 2026

regime: volatile · trajectory: slowing

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FewerMore approvals— shared scale

HoverSyncFrontier

Approval Snapshot

Approval data unavailable.

Limited recent approval data available.

Additional submissions are needed for reliable summaries.

Approval Activity Signal

Insufficient data for reliable signal

Monitoring Form 4 and Form 1 recent approvals

Low data confidence

Last approval

No activity recorded

Signal strength

— No signal

Detection window

Baseline window still building

Cohort Explorer

Filing cohorts from four angles — recent activity, timeline, weekly density, and your own lookup

Recent approvals by filing cohort

Hover a bar for cohort detail

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Sep

Dec

Mar

Jun

Sep

Frontier

Active (30d)

Historical

Frontier: Aug 2026 (1mo ago)3 active cohorts

Approval distribution by filing week

All types

Filing week	Approvals	Median	Typical range	Active
Sep 7–13, 2026	11	2d	2–2d	11
Aug 31–Sep 6	33	2d	2–4d	33
Aug 24–30	58	3d	2–5d	58
Aug 17–23	54	3d	2–4d	54
Aug 10–16	88	5d	3–8d	71
Aug 3–9	79	5d	4–8d	18
Jul 27–Aug 2	82	6d	4–9d	13
Jul 20–26	86	11d	5–15d	14
Jul 13–19	70	16d	13–24d	9
Jul 6–12	81	19d	8–23d	2
Jun 29–Jul 5	71	21d	13–28d	5
Jun 22–28	68	22d	6–32d	3
Jun 15–21	68	32d	5–38d	—
Jun 8–14	95	34d	6–38d	—
Jun 1–7	73	22d	7–46d	—
May 25–31	68	35d	7–53d	—
May 18–24	77	15d	5–52d	—
May 11–17	89	33d	9–65d	—
May 4–10	71	32d	7–73d	—
Apr 27–May 3	85	37d	9–77d	—
Apr 20–26	90	21d	8–79d	—
Apr 13–19	88	26d	6–72d	—
Apr 6–12	126	36d	8–78d	—
Mar 30–Apr 5	105	36d	16–73d	—
Mar 23–29	95	66d	29–73d	—
Mar 16–22	100	63d	23–68d	—

Median = half waited less, half more. Typical range = the middle 50% of filers (25th–75th percentile). Active = approved in the last 30 days.

Recent Approvals

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No approvals in the dataset yet.

Activity reflects approval dates reported by the community, not upload time.

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