The present disclosure provides a scheduling request processing method and a user equipment, which can improve cancellation/cancellation exemption mechanism for a scheduling request (SR) in an NR system. The method includes: determining whether to cancel a triggered scheduling request (SR) and/or stop an SR-prohibit timer according to a current status of a buffer status report (BSR). This technical solution improves cancellation/cancellation exemption mechanism of the SR, and especially when applied to the NR system, can reduce delay of the delay-sensitive service (such as URLLC service), thereby improving system performance.