One way I like to think of it is perhaps our assigned officers prefer to do all their background checks before the test invite, so perhaps if we're lucky, once we do eventually get our test invites it could all be gravy and smooth sailing from there with faster times between test to DM and DM to oath. It does nothing to dwell and it's better to try and look at the positives. The positive is the fact that by the end of the year we should all be citizens and that after this, we won't have to go through any of this again.