For Oct applicants who are still waiting for AOR, not sure if what will help but I can share my story with you and may be it will be of some help
I made an application on oct 11 which got delivered on oct 13 but on Oct 13 I realized I had used the old form (Aug, 2017) so on Oct 13 I resent my entire application with the updated form for Oct-2017 and a cover letter explaining what happened and why I am re sending the application. The new application got delivered on Oct 16, 2017
My AOR currently says we received your application on Oct 16, 2017 and I still haven't gotten my first application data set back but I believe (hopefully) my application in process hopefully is the new data set I sent out since my AOR came on Dec 4 which is way after compared to other ppl whose application got delivered on Oct 16th.
Hopefully this helps some of you guys