Hi Bugbabe,

Well, your submission will remain in the pool for up to 3 months, so you should hopefully be picked within that timeframe (although when is anyones guess!). After you are selected, i believe it can take up to a few weeks to check everything out on your form, such as your work history, medical and police checks etc, and then you will be sent (if successful) an offer to apply for residency.

Most people seem to report around 6-9 months for the whole thing to be processed, but it varies so widely that no one can really answer this question.

I suppose if you are picked at next selection, your application is top of the pile of those picked, and all your stuff checks out with relative ease, it could be a lot quicker.

Its a 'suck it and see' kinda process unfortunately!