The answer
DataFlow's primary-source verification time depends entirely on how quickly each issuing source — your nursing school, your nursing council, every past employer — responds to the verification email DataFlow sends.
Median timeline for African applicants is 6 – 10 weeks. Best case (responsive registrar, organised council, English-track institution) is around 4 weeks. Worst case (school that's changed names or merged, ex-employer that's gone bankrupt, paper-based council) can reach 14 weeks or more.
The fastest accelerator is your own follow-up. Phone calls every 5 – 7 days to your school's registrar and to each past employer's HR head — politely, with the DataFlow request reference number — cuts weeks off the timeline.
DataFlow does not run "express" lanes. Anyone offering one is misrepresenting how the service works.
If that was confusing, here it is in plain English
6 – 10 weeks usually. Most of the wait is your school being slow. Calling them often actually speeds it up.
Open the DataFlow guide for the document-by-document prep checklist.
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