Yes, and unfortunately, it's not moving a month every month or anywhere near that, so you can't just look at the date now, deduct it from the present year and say, I waited x years so far, so that's how many is left......
"a couple months before the divorce was finalized in the US, we got married in a small courthouse type marriage in Syria."
Like I said on Reddit, obviously an invalid marriage as you were not free to marry....