How long does iStock need to review images? I am waiting what seems forever. It is my first upload of images after getting accepted. Even DT is faster.

For indies, they say a week to ten days, but in I've read reports of a fortnight or more; though that was when a lot of inspectors were at the Paris Lypse.

My last batch took about three weeks to get reviewed. It doesn't really matter a lot to me since I consider stock a long term thing and if my images sell over the next five to ten years, a week or more doesn't make much of a difference. Also iStock doesn't really reject a lot these days, certainly not for technical reasons. So there is a very low risk that images need to be re-submitted and I have to wait again.

There is no connection to the tax interview nor any minimum limit of images to submit.

Mine three weeks too


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I feel ya. I've also got a couple pictures pending for over two weeks that are time sensitive. IStock moves slowly.

Well... I looked at istock as a videographer: they are not accepting video codecs accepted everywhere else, pricing 4k equally to HD, having strange invitation upload system, paying 3 times less for clips compared to others... I thought they are just photo oriented agency and here it is, they are reviewing photos in 3 weeks
I guess they are very tired of this business and having everyweek brainstorms to find better ways of sinking it.   

Four days to a week for me. Some stocks also prioritize and it may take on average longer for a newcomer. I don't know if iStock is doing that.

It's usually 2 to 3 weeks for me.

Do they review video batches with both submitted and not submitted clips the same batch?