Well it took me ages to be honest mate lol there is alot involved it took me about 20months to go from my application form submitted to getting an assesment date. In that you have to do a verbal reasoning test, numerical reasoning test, two role plays dealing with 2 very different situations whilst respecting diversity etc etc then theres the interview which is 20-30min long and you just get bombarded with questions and have 5 minutes to answer them if you finish early you sit there waiting for the allotted time to end, after this there was my fitness test (roughly 7 weeks after I pasted my assesment) then after that I had sercurity vetting and medical tests. Not been in to long only about 6 months so far. Everything is good at my end just getting ready for xmas and preparing for the new arrival. How about you still scrounging from the state lol.