The aim of this paper is to give some approximation results for a class of nonlinear filtering problems with delay in the observation. First, we point out some general results on the approximation problem for the filter in nonlinear filtering. In particular we give a general procedure to obtain some upper bounds for the different approximations we consider. This procedure is then applied in the case of nonlinear filtering problems with delay (X, Y ), which can be represented by means of a Markov system (X,Ŷ ), in the sense that Yt =Ŷ a(t) . Finally these upper bounds are computed explicitly in the particular case of Markov jump process with counting observations.