Agree with you and ....
Officers may be doing their work. I believe there are a lot of approvals, but nobody is updating the computer system , AVM and mails
the approval notices. We will see a lots of approvals and REFs in next two weeks.
another story : I checked AVM, it said my EAD is approved on oct 10, 2001. the coming approving notice with envelop stampping on oct 7(sunday !!!) . So my EAD was approved on or before oct 5.
the above story tells me that AVM approved date is the date they update their AVM system. it is nothing to do with the actual approved date.