What is going on at CSC with the variances in timelines?

[Heartwarming 15]

I looked at igor's list and saw this:

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/monthly_filers.php?visa=3&form=2&scenter=1&option=2&sortby=2

Date Sent First NOA

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Last 15 Approved I-130 IR-1/CR-1 Filers at the California Service Center

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Names

Date Sent

First NOA

Second NOA

1

Benny and Vicky

2011-01-17

2011-01-20

2011-6-7

2

Vicky and Alejandro

2011-05-29

2011-06-02

2011-09-29

3

B and A

2011-08-23

2011-08-29

2011-09-28

4

Jessica and Ulises

2011-05-28

2011-06-03

2011-09-28

5

Misty and Peter

2011-08-17

2011-09-01

2011-09-27

6

K and J

2011-05-31

2011-06-03

2011-09-27

7

WB and SJ

2011-04-15

2011-05-02

2011-09-26

8

joe and ria

2011-05-31

2011-09-26

9

Josie and Maarouf

2011-07-26

2011-07-28

2011-09-26

10

mr georgia and ms jamaica

2011-05-27

2011-06-01

2011-09-26

11

Chris and Yoshiko

2011-08-17

2011-08-23

2011-09-26

12

Peahen and Maulik

2011-05-27

2011-05-31

2011-09-22

13

John and Rogelinda

2011-04-30

2011-05-04

2011-09-22

14

J and S

2011-05-17

2011-05-19

2011-09-21

15

Atif and Shumaila

2011-05-24

2011-05-31

2011-09-21

15 entries found!

It seems as though many August I-130 applications are already being approved? I see many 26 day approvals. What is that all about?

Edited September 29, 2011 by Lonely Waiter

[kelad 8]

Your calculations are incorrect the month is in the middle, look again does are months apart not days.

[Laure&Colin 557]

When I click on your link, the list of last 15 approved members are all June + one July filer...

I don't understand where you got this list you pasted here?

But it's true, some cases seem to be adjudicated surprisingly fast although members sometimes stated they did not request expedite. When you look at the approved petitions for I-130, there are already people who filed in September and October. Well, for the vast majority of them, the spouse comes from a western european or highly developped country: several from Japan, Spain, Australia...

However, not all cases from these countries are approved faster than usual.

It made me wonder if CSC randomly picks up "simple" cases from low fraud risk countries and processes them immediately to lower their average processing time, or what?? If that were true, I'd love to be one of the lucky few