Please, explain this to me.

[B&Y 0]

Here are some extracts:

I-129F K1 Filers at the Vermont Service Center - Approved Petitions

from: 2008-11-01 to 2008-11-30 Sorted by First NOA

# Names Date Sent First NOA RFE Second NOA

739 Mark and Ana 2008-11-03 2008-11-07 2009-01-20

740 Christopher and Alexandra 2008-11-01 2008-11-07 2009-02-06

741 Nanci and Martin 2008-11-10 2008-11-13 2009-02-06

742 David and Jenny 2008-11-03 2008-11-14 2009-02-14

743 Nick and Nilda 2008-08-21 2008-11-25 2009-02-02

5 entries found!

I-129F K1 Filers at the Vermont Service Center - Approved Petitions

from: 2008-12-01 to 2008-12-31 Sorted by First NOA

# Names Date Sent First NOA RFE Second NOA

744 Betsy and Anders 2008-09-12 2008-12-19 2008-12-28

1 entries found!

I-129F K1 Filers at the Vermont Service Center - Approved Petitions

from: 2009-01-01 to 2009-01-31 Sorted by First NOA

# Names Date Sent First NOA RFE Second NOA

745 W and A 2008-12-31 2009-01-05 2009-02-11

746 Paul and Glenda 2008-09-03 2009-01-15 none 2009-01-29

2 entries found!

Some petitions were approved in a few days, some in a few weeks, and some people here waiting for NOA2 over 6 months.

I have only one explanation, some users in this forum have wrong NOA1 days and all this wrong data create a wrong data for others.

or

Vermont takes one petition from the top and 10 from the bottom, this way they can get nice average results in general.

Any ideas?

[Nik+Heather 121]

Some people apply (and are approved) for expedite - for example military before they ship out...

I agree with you, it does seem like it might do something funny to the averages!!!!! I actually grabbed some of the raw data, threw out the high and low wait times, and made my own average. I don't remember the specifics, except that it seemed as though the averages weren't too different (high wait and expedite balanced out, basically).

Also, you should keep in mind that some people might take all they want/need from VJ, and never log in again to update their time lines - it looks like this is true for about 10% of time lines that get started.

[Brad and Vika 129]

Some people apply (and are approved) for expedite - for example military before they ship out...

I agree with you, it does seem like it might do something funny to the averages!!!!! I actually grabbed some of the raw data, threw out the high and low wait times, and made my own average. I don't remember the specifics, except that it seemed as though the averages weren't too different (high wait and expedite balanced out, basically).

Also, you should keep in mind that some people might take all they want/need from VJ, and never log in again to update their time lines - it looks like this is true for about 10% of time lines that get started.

True - also remember that VJ is a very small sample of applicants. The USCIS service center definitely take petitions in order, but they do not necessarily process them in order. There are extensive threads about delays in processing.