Dijana99

Right now NVC only is taking 60 days (it may change in the future hopefully)
and then add around a month for it to schedule at an embassy (depending on the embassy)

THAT is the only thing keeping me strong. This will be a distant memory in our happy lives.

oh it's fine! Yes, I got happy. All we can do now is pray and wait because in the end it will be worth it. I called my lawyer and he said if we don't get our NO2 by April that we need to call them. But hopefully they can get back on track because I got the USCIS a couple of days ago and they said October filers are going to have a normal processing time. But idk what is a normal timeline for them. 

Last time I checked they were. We really won't know anything until we look one day and see now processing July.

thank you!
hvala puno!

The affidavit of support is not needed until the interview. We did not fill it out until we received our NOA2. Embassy in Sarajevo did not even look at it though. 

Your fiance will need to bring the affidavit of support documents to their interview. After your NOA2 approval arrives a few months from now, you can start putting together those documents to send to your fiance. 

I was 17 years old when I sent in my petition. I wrote in my declaration when I would turn 18. My lawyer did research and said it was fine just make sure to include it.

Unfortunately, no one is ever going to be able to give you a definite, airtight answer to this question. That would be great, but not realistic. I'm a June filer (6/8 NOA1), and we just received our NOA2 on December 1. The next step (NVC) is said to be slowing down now compared to in the past, and what used to take around 30 days is taking 40+ days. We're already past a month from receiving NOA2 and have heard nothing from NVC yet. Then you still have whatever else requirements you may have, such as medical, and of course the final interview, which I've heard occurs about a month or two out after being approved/denied. If you technically filed in October, then do the (estimated) math.
 
The best advice anyone can be given at this point is to not plan things this early in the process. I've heard stories of people already planning their wedding right off the bat, only for them to not make it because the process went past their original wedding date. Don't do that. Whatever your reasons are for aiming for July, that's none of our business, but it's beneficial to your emotions to realistically consider the strong possibility that may not happen. It might - but I would not put all your eggs in that one specific basket quite yet.

I'm a May filer.  At 223 days now and still not gotten a NOA2 yet.  I've contacted congressman and senator and filed request myself now they show on June but still nothing happening for me.  Some May already are here and married now, so it's all dependant.

The graph isn't intended to predict, just to have a general idea of how long, on average, cases received each day from April up to know has taken to be approved.

It takes as long as it takes. Stressing about it won't make it go faster. July 2018 may or may not be possible, no one knows. Last year, when average processing times were still a bit shorter, the whole process from filing to landing in the US took us a year. And I am from a low fraud country. We just had bad luck, several times (mail got lost, my husband had to request a new birth certificate which took months, etc).
I know it's hard, but try not to stress about it. Stressing will only make it harder.

You're going to see those dates change multiple times.
 
I filed July 5. We saw our estimated timeline date start in September. It has gradually moved from September to January over the last 6 months. It has always moved back - never forward.
There are people in April and May who have not had their NOA2. There are also people who have not received their NVC information.
 
There is a lot of information in these threads about what people are experiencing. My genuine advice to you is to not make ANY plans in advance. Nothing is static right now except for the extremely long waiting times we are all facing.
 
 

The approval times are like an elastic band.  It stretches and contracts all the time.  It is nearly impossible to predict with any accuracy other than using several month ranges.  The USCIS will redeploy resources all the time based on the work load, and this has a significant effect on any petitions adjudication.  I have seen approvals times go from 4 months to 10 -12 months and everything in between over the last few years