Thank you for this, this was helpful. Yes, we are married and going for CR1, since we've been married less than two years. I am almost done with our I-130/I-130A, compiled all of our evidence and just waiting on him to get a good picture. He has an appointment scheduled for getting his passport. There's so many russians doing the same thing there, that when he got the appointment back in February, the closest appointment he was able to get was June 15. Until then we are in limbo, unsure if he can get the passport or not. We've decided that if he cannot get his passport, he'll go back to russia and continue avoiding conscription until he's 27, a little over two years from now, when it's no longer required. This will no doubt give him a couple charges on his record, in fact just him leaving the country without having done his service was enough, but hopefully if we end up having to do that, USCIS will understand that violating russian law isn't very difficult these days. This changes if Russia actually goes through with the rumored mobilization. If that happens, anyone aged 18-55 in russia has to actively be drafted into the war. Obviously, he's not interested in that. In that case, no idea what we're going to do.
Either way, it's helpful to know where that visa application will be sent to, so he might not have to be in poland after all. (again, if he does get his passport). This gives me a little more reassurance that as long as that passport thing works out, we can figure this out and maybe it wont take 2+ years.