Here in MA the process is: sign up on the State website and wait, which I did. When my cohort was called up and the notice came it took a brief while to get an appointment. The only glitch was every time one answered the prompts to find there wasn't an appointment at the day and time you wished the entire process of answering the prompts had to be repeated. I drove an hour to a dilapidated mall and was back in the car in twenty-five minutes. Very well-run operation. Arriving at the end of the day the site wasn't the least bit crowded.