Yep, it's ridiculous! My concern is that after waiting three months for the AOR, they might return the application for some trivial reason. They could easily request missing documents, but instead, they prefer to return the entire application and make you start over. This happened to some of my friends – they missed just one document, like a degree, birth certificate, or even a background check letter because it was more than a month old. You end up losing three months for nothing – it's not fair!