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Hi guys final update I received the card  yesterday two days after the notice on my account finally, hope everyone get yours soon.

Thank you, Never Know it might  be sooner  fingers crossed for you. 

Hey guys I have an update/tip,
 
If you have been waiting a reasonable amount of time (lets say 90+ days) please send USCIS a message through your account. Explain your situation nicely and ask if there’s a problem with your case etc. 
 
I sent them a message last Friday explaining that my POE was August 1st and 94 days later there has been no change in my status. They replied on Monday stating that the status is now “application received”. Today it changed to card being produced. So fingers crossed!

What a coincidence!
My wife received her card just today. I am from CO. Today marks the 119th day since her arrival, so I guess USCIS didn't miss their timeline! 😂

- interview and DV visa pickup: Sept 30th 2019
- POE: Oct. 15th
- CPO: Oct. 28th
- GC mailed: Oct. 30th
- GC received: Oct. 31st. 2019
overall pretty fast, I hope others waiting will also receive theirs soon

what i did is file a e request for card not mailed. it might work or next step should be infopass appointment. 

Hi! I completely understand your frustration. Luckily, as of 3 days ago, we finally got the green card. It turned out that my husband's visa packet had been lost. Of course, the USCIS never gave us this info. The way we were able to find out was by contacting our Senator, and his office sent a inquiry to the USCIS on our behalf. They were able to figure out that the visa packet was lost, and once we had that information we were able to make an infopass appointment. At the appointment they filed a Lost Visa Packet form for us and a little less than a month later, we got the card. Neither the ombudsman nor direct contact with the USCIS did anything for us which is so frustrating. My advice is to contact your senator.  I am positive we never would have had any success or even gotten any information if my senator had never gotten involved. If you have any more questions at all, feel free to message me! I'd love to help. And good luck!!!

Mine was 63 days. Arrived 3 days after I filed a status enquiry. 

A few weeks to a few months........that's about as accurate as I can predict......In my wife's case, it was about 3 weeks.

*~*~*moved from “AOS progress reports” to “moving to the USA” where similar topics are discussed*~*~*

3 weeks to 3 months is typical 

My husband and I just finished the CR-1 process, and it was 11 months from filing to visa issuance, I just wanted to post our experience for the benefit of others.  This site has been so useful in the last year, I read relevant threads almost every day and the experiences of others were very informative in our process so I feel like it's time to post what we learned and our experience in getting approved.  I am the USC, older by 27 years, with other big differences like culture, language, education, income, many "red flags," so based on everything we read here we got married in Brazil and filed for a CR-1 spousal visa in July of 2018.  My husband wanted to work right away on arrival without the long wait for EAD which would have driven him crazy.  The entire process went smoothly, with no RFEs or other delays, we got assigned to TSC and the petition was approved after 7 months, then another 4 months to visa issuance for NVC and consulate stages.  Because of the big age gap we front-loaded with evidence of four visits and financial co-mingling, also a sample of our daily communications, email log, Facebook friendship, receipts, boarding passes, a few visit and wedding photos...  Then at the NVC stage we side-loaded more evidence of our three additional trips together since filing the petition.  I was concerned that because of the age gap, we would get more questions at the visa interview (I traveled to Brazil to be with my husband for his interview), but it was clear from the quick interview and very basic questions (when did you meet, how many visits to spend time together) that the CO had made a decision to approve his visa before the interview based on all the evidence submitted at both USCIS and NVC stages.  So the lesson learned that I would like to pass on to others who have concerns about an age gap or red flags in general, is to front-load and side-load lots of evidence of visits in person--we had a total of nine visits in an 18-month period, an average of one visit of about a week long every two months.  I was also concerned that the CO might ask about our language difference--I have learned a lot of Portuguese since we first met in November of 2017 but I'm far from fluent.  My husband's English is not good at all.  This was not even an issue at the interview.  The CO asked my husband questions in Portuguese and me in English, but the questions were not difficult, very easy.  So good luck to all of the other couples here on VJ who have a big age gap like ours--you can do it with no unusual delays and get approved in less than a year with evidence of visits to spend time together, at least it worked for us.  I'm not sure if Brazil is considered a high-fraud country like some are, but our experience overall was very positive.  The hardest part was the 7 month wait for the petition to be approved, and we made it work with visits to be together every two months.  Good luck everyone--whatever your situation I hope you will be together soon.  All the best to the Visa Journey family!  Reading your threads has been very very helpful.

Hello.  So our medical appointment and  X-ray was on the 21 of March.  But the day before we went to get blood drawn in the same building as the doctor, which if I remember correctly was on the 16th floor. After that we went to do the urine test. The location of this place from the doctors building was a few blocks away.  You must  no pee for 2 hours before giving sample.  The next day we went to do the X-ray in one location ( not far from doctors office) and later in the afternoon we went doctors appointment. The doctor determined my hubby needed only 2 vaccines and sent us to the 2nd floor of the same building. ( it would help if you have your vaccinations card).  After that the doctor told us to come back in 2 days to pick up packet to bring to the interview.  (Please do not open).  On 28th of March at 8:00 am was the interview, we arrived early to avoid a long line.  There is a gentleman that stands outside to check you in.   You go up to the second floor and they will hand you two pieces of paper, where you put your paperwork in order and fill out another.  They will call you in order of who was done with the paperwork first.  Someone calls your name make sure your paperwork is all in order and then they call you again for the interview.  During the interview they asked a couple of questions and told us that the  visa was approved.  Below is a list of addresses and how much we paid for each exam .
 
blood work- Diagnósticos da America-Lamine Med av. Ataulto de Paiva 135 Leblon ( name of building is Cidade de Leblon) R$44.00
 
urine test-  Richet  av. das Americas 4801 loja D. R$262.15
 
vaccine and doctors appointment was in same building as the blood work.
 
X-ray-  Cavallieri. rua Carlos Góis 375 Leblon R$170.00.
 
doctor appt R$600.00
 
I would recommend staying near the area of your exams as everything is close to each other. You will most likely only need to go to the US Embassy once.  The hotel I stayed at was named Mar Ipanema Hotel on Rua visconde de piraja 539.  Hotel was great!  Wish you the best.  Hope this helps..