EAD card given in 10 minutes

My husband and I went at the end of March on a wednesday with an infopass appointment and were asked to resubmit the form and them given another appointment to comeback after 2 weeks again a wednesday at 9.00am to collect the ead cards. Our cases were already transfered to DC office. The appmnt was on my name but they let us both in given a token and waited for 10 mins or so and then were called to the window. We were done with our ead questions in 5 mins. Both of us were given different tokens so went to different windows. As we understood they issue IEAD on wednesday's only, the officer at my husband's window called up some other officer to confirm they were not giving appmnts for the next week and gave it after 2 weeks. She then asked us if we had any more questions(I was done at a different window by then so went to my husband's window) and we asked about our parole, she checked the status and said they were approved in february and wondered why we did not receive them still, then checked something else and told us the files were missing in the database gave us new forms to fill in, we had photos too with us which she stapled them and approved the application in front of us, and told we will be gettin them soon in the mail. We got them in about 3 weeks. We went to pick the IEAD, photo id was asked, including a previous EAD if you have, right index finger print was taken, a photo taken and the EAD card given in 10 minutes. We got a year card since our cases have been transferred to DC office.