If you have searched for a microchip on the National Equine Chipchecker and the result has a status of "Pending updates" it means that this equine currently has updates which are due to be applied to the Central Equine Database (CED) by the Passport Issuing Organisation (PIO).

An owner has claimed this equine via the Digital Stable and has made changes to the data held about this equine on the CED. This could be anything from food chain status to microchip number or even owner contact details. The PIO has yet to action these changes and hasn't yet applied them to the CED - hence "Pending updates" will be shown as a status on the ChipChecker.
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