CONTROVERSIAL Dutch MP Geert Wilders' application for an Australian visa has stalled, weeks before the anti-Islamic politician is due to arrive for a speaking tour.

The right-wing Dutch MP, who once compared the Koran to Mein Kampf, applied for a visa three weeks ago to give speeches in Sydney and Melbourne, but despite his staff and security being approved within days, his own application is still pending.

Geert Wilders. Credit:Reuters

Mr Wilders was invited by the Q Society, which spokesman Andrew Horwood described as a group of a few hundred Australians "concerned about the march of islam into this country".

Mr Horwood said the group had existed for two years and was a "purely educational body about Islam", which believed the religion should be better understood.