Don't know...
My RD is 09/04/2001 -- transferred to Baltimore.
I have seen RDs even upto Feb 2002 transferred to Baltimore.
Wish I had filed it ONE working day before, would have got an RD of 08/31 and who knows would have been done wih GC by now..
The only reason I can think of these transfers, is that VSC is distributing their workload, but why only Baltimore (MD) beats me!