Yes, there are; I am going through one right now. Unless you have been through one or stood beside someone that has, shut your mouth. They are not a cake walk, they are invasive, tedious and because you don't know what you are talking about they start from the parish and move UP. Most annulments don't make it past the parish to the tribunal. The ones that do even if granted at the diocese get an automatic appeal to be sure of validity. What you probably don't know either, American's apply for annulments in greater numbers than overseas because American's don't ditch the church after divorce like those divorced overseas do. We (the one's going through this process) are trying to stay connected to the church; but then here is you..just like others here "holier than thou".
I recommend you withdraw you petition and wait a month.
After that, you should be granted a free permit to commit adultery within 45 days. Go for it, Ghost!
More B.S.
US statistics
Despite this decline, the United States, with 5.9 percent of the worlds Catholics, still accounts for 60 percent of the Churchs 58,322 declarations of nullity (2007 statistics in the Vatican Secretariat of States Statistical Yearbook of the Church). Of the 35,009 declarations of nullity granted in the US, 79 percent were granted through the ordinary process, while 21 percent were granted through the documentary process.
Oh yeah?
In 1991 some 48,600 petitions were considered as presented to American tribunals. Of those, only 43,900 were accepted for adjudication and, of those, only about 39,100 were decided by formal sentences. Assume that almost all of these sentences were affirmative. That is still only an 89% affirmative rate among cases actually accepted, and barely 80% for those cases officially presented.
Since when is 89% considered most?