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I wonder how the petition got approved when it was filed if there was overlap in the dates between marriage and Divorce certificates.

How the visa officer find out? Did they compare divorce certificate date with the marriage certificate date?

Some African country

They signed the marriage certificate in future date to let the divorce finalize first on the ceremony day.

My friend;s actual marriage date is different than the date on marriage certificate due to divorce was not finalized. What marriage date will be considered? Also at immigration interview do visa officer look at the US citizen arrival and departure record to reconcile with the marriage date? Any was in this situation? Thanks

Email or Mail is not necessary. You upload everything and they will tell you if they accepted or rejected any of your documents.

I think USCIS is delaying CR1 cases to IR1 to reduce the backlog. Once they approve your IR1, good thing is you are done with them for 10 years for GC renewal or 3 years if you chose to become citizen. Seems like case delaying has something for both parties. After watching few cases i can say 8-10 months at USCIS and the 10 to 14 months at NVC stage including interview

I think one way to reduce backlog is to delay the cases and issue IR1 instead of CR1. Conditional Resident visa adds the backlog since conditions need to be removed and that needs the whole process again. LR1 is for the applicants more than 2 years old marriage. If you read Visa issuance report https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html It clearly shows pre covid more CR1 than LR1 and now More LR1 than CR1. So in short delay is helping both applicants and USCIS. Applicants get 10 years GC and USCIS reducing the backlog

I think this website takes pre covid numbers average of cases at the embassy add them up and analyze them with the current number of cases. I checked Islamabad embassy approved higher number of cases in March 2021 more than 450ish and their average per month is 155ish . So it makes some sense to catch up the backlog. Nothing is certain with the USCIS anyway

I checked few consulates and immigrant categories IR-1/CR-1 and found website shows great improvement. B1/B2 do have massive backlog and was not my concern. Nobody knows exact anyway

This website piled up data and shows backlog after DQ has been caught up and things moving faster than usual . Check the wait times at your consulate. https://visawhen.com/consulates