This is exactly what about i was thinking today, I am in this process so long,its almost done,and the wait makes me crazy now. Days seems like years....
Hi shorena!
I assume you have field I-130 petition for your husband. So let me congratulate you both with approval of that petion.
Actually I'm in the same position as your husband. My wife (btw, she lives in New Jersey too) filed a petition and we've got an approval in the end of September. And yesterday she have recieved a mail from NVC - a Welcome Letter with our Case number. So it took about 1.5 months for NVC to recieve our case and send a letter to us.
I don't know if it matters which USCIS service center worked with your petition, but our case was approved in California service center.
When you'll get your Welcome Letter you will be able to select an agent (yourself, basically) and pay fees in order to continue the immigration process.