I wait roughly 5.5 months for aor and others get it in less then two months. When apparently its Covid at its worse. I cant conceive how this is possible. I really believe they open these thing and decide whos they process first. Until I can see actual facts or a operations mngmt process to it.
You're not going to get the information (and neither am I) to show. But
from what I've seen (AORs etc), it is more consistent with them effectively almost fully stopping the first stage (to AOR) for close to six months - and then later deciding to 'reboot' with segregated piles being sent in different processes. I.e. the variable of importance is not nationality but month of submission.
How could we distinguish between your scenario and my scenario? If the long delays (six to nine months) are consistent not by nationality, but by when the files were submitted, it would
seem to be consistent with my hypothesis.
And crucially, if the current relatively quick (eg two months) to AOR is roughly consistent with application inputs by nationality, your hypothesis would seem wrong. (Again keeping in mind that the sample of applicants by nationality here is not random - but skewed by type of applicaiton and language of this forum)
But I don't think it makes sense to compare the waiting times for applicants mid-year with those at end-year with different nationalities until you have some baseline.
So believe what you want, of course, but I think it's offensive to imply there's some favouritism going on without better analysis, and I'd appreciate not repeating.