Precisely

This was a question I was asking a little more than a month ago as my cousins on my wife's side entered the US on DV's.  They also checked the box on the DS260 to get a SSC.  Fast forward two weeks, no cards, but the GCs arrived, so we went down to the SSA to see if they could give us any information on the SSCs progress.  They looked my cousins up on their system and it showed nothing in the works, so my cousins promptly applied for cards and received them about 10 days later. 
 
If you do decide to go down to the SSA, I suggest waiting for your actual GC as for some reason there are clerks at the SSA that do not understand that an endorsed IV (CR1/IR1/DV, etc.) is in fact a GC.  Also, if you go down to the SSA, go in the afternoons as they don't seem to be as busy.
 
Good Luck!

here's the timeline based on 8 months of research by following many many cases of real couples here on VJ:
1. NOA2 arrives, file is sent to NVC and takes 3 weeks to arrive there
2. NVC because of the backlog takes 8 weeks to assign a case number
3. once you get the case number you can upload forms, documents, pay fees, this may take days or weeks depending on how ready you are with everything, so estimate at least 1 week
4. NVC then takes 3 weeks to process your documents, schedule your interview at the consulate/embassy, and sends the file to the consulate/embassy
5. depending on the country, the interview could be as early as 4 weeks from that time or much later, I've seen in some countries because of the backlog, up to 6 months
6. medical and biometrics are dome before the interview in the 4 or more weeks while waiting
7. if there are no issues like further documents needed, administrative processing (1 week to more than a year), or problems with the interview leading to a denial, which could all add weeks to the process, very unpredictably, the visa is ready for pick up or delivery to the beneficiary, this also depends on the country, and takes from a few days to a few weeks
 
So the total is very different for each country.  I'm estimating for Brazil the time from NOA2 to visa in hand, assuming no delays, and we have all our documents ready to upload now, will be about 21 weeks, or 5 months, from receipt of your NOA2, to visa in hand, but it could be longer as there are many possible bumps in the road.  And we are not going to buy any tickets for travel until visa in hand so a month later to get a reasonable fare, we are hoping that six months from now (we just received NOA2 a week ago) he can travel to the US.
 
Good luck to you with the NVC and interview phase of this crazy process!

It took us 6 weeks and they quote 4-8, so you should be a bit more patient. If you want to know that they received your petition from USCIS you can call them and ask or send them an email. 

Sorry this happened.
 
File for divorce. After that, her immigration process is her responsibility. If she has a 2 year green card, she can file RoC by herself with a divorce waiver. If she's got a 10 year card, then no need for RoC. As for you, all you need to do is move on and not look back. 

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

I love those vague posts. 
And OP will probably never come back and the mysterious lie will forever remain mysterious. 

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

K1 is the fastest way but that is a fiance visa, so that's unavailable once you marry. Most people would recommend CR-1/IR-1 visa anyway - this is the marriage visa and takes 12-15 months on average so she can't make it in time for your brother's wedding. You may be eligible for Direct Consular Filing: https://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf. DCF can be extremely fast in some stages but unlikely you'll finish the entire process in 2 months.
 
1. This is easily DIY if you follow the guides https://www.visajourney.com/content/guides/. People will help if you have specific questions but you'll unlikely find someone patient enough to explain "everything". Your first step is to file the i130 and i130a, along with supporting documentation.
2. Fastest way is the CR-1/IR-1 if you married (better than the K-1). 12-15 months on average (perhaps less with DCF).
3. As above.
4. You can do this process fairly easily on your own. Lawyers are needed if you have particular challenges to overcome, e.g. if her previous denials were due to illegal activities then lawyers can help with waivers.
5. Guides can show you how much this will cost. I have done the CR-1 and start to finish it has been approx $ 1,500

Thanks!
 
I called the helpline and they’ve done it for me over the phone now. I’m all set ! 

The entire interview can be nerve racking. You don't want to make a mistake and set you back. Most of the CO's take that into consideration. The CO's are well trained to uncover fraud and so a question like the she asked you and your response did not set off any alarm bells so she didn't go any further in questioning that topic.
 
I was at my wife's interview but they would not allow me to stand with her. I was asked to take a seat in the lobby. I took a chair and I was in ear shot of an interview window and I listened as this young lady with child was interviewing. There were some questions asked and immediately the CO was zeroing in on something because there were further questions being asked. She eventually uncovered a fraudulent application and denied it and band the women for 10 years.
 
So I think you are find and it will take days to about 2 weeks for it to be issued. Good luck and safe flights.

Ready status still continues and will remain there until such time as your CO begins the final adjudication then you will see it go through these stages first being AP. These are all good signs and nothing to worry about.
 
Just about everyone goes through this process.  Based on the discussions I had with the case officer he informed me of the steps to complete the processing of your visa:
 
the first AP is the immigration unit doing the paperwork for approving the visa
the first ready is a notice that they are finished and the paperwork is being sent for visa issuance
the second AP is the visa issuance people doing their own paperwork
the second ready is that the visa has been issued and is currently being processed for delivery
 
Then "issue" is posted and the visa has left the BIG house to YOUR house.
 
Once you get that second ready, it should be sent out within a few days, although we received our visa before any of the various websites that allow you to look up the status said that it had been sent out.

Ready means that your case is at the embassy and is ready to interview. Follow this information:
 
P3 instructions for the UK
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M92AwztXRnkFw6xwUF0ZlntJ6D4-eK2E/view?usp=sharing
 
Embassy Page
https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee-2/required-documents/
https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee-2/medical-examination/
 
London Portal here on VJ
http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Kingdom&cty=London
 
London sub-forum on VJ
There are experts over in the sub-forum for your country located here http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/99-united-kingdom/  This is where others from your country who are processing or those who have completed their interview and they can guide you on their experience. A TON of information and help there.
 
A fellow VJ'r who just completed their visa interview
https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/690372-my-whole-k1-experience/
 
Medical prices including vaccination pricing
http://www.visamedicals.co.uk/us-price.htm
 
Medical questionnaire
https://uk.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2017/05/USA-MEDICAL-QUESTIONNAIRE_IV.pdf
 
 

By the way, out of "Rome, Edinburgh, Seville, Los Angeles (Disneyland) and Las Vegas, London and San Francisco" the only place me and my wife haven't been to together is Edinburgh  
 
Congratulations and good luck.

Thanks Apelcina and all the best on your interview

and technically, the visa is not really approved until it is issued.  There was a recent case from Morocco, I think, that was refused and returned to USCIS even after the consulate officer said it was approved.......but this doesn't happen often.......good luck.....Hopefully, you will see "issued" very soon.

You can easily do it yourself without an attorney so long as you follow the guides and are vigilant.
 
Here are some links to get you started:
Overview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bvTEwLyHz1LVQ5enFjMmc4YXM/view
Filing the i130/i130a: https://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1 
NVC stage: https://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/NVC_Process
 
You can also post in the forums for specific advice, the people here are very helpful.

You can easily do it yourself without an attorney so long as you follow the guides and are vigilant.
 
Here are some links to get you started:
Overview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bvTEwLyHz1LVQ5enFjMmc4YXM/view
Filing the i130/i130a: https://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1 
NVC stage: https://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/NVC_Process
 
You can also post in the forums for specific advice, the people here are very helpful.

So I became an LPR on 3rd April, 2013. This meant that according to USCIS' filing calculator I became eligible to file an N-400 on 3rd January, 2018 (plus five years minus 90 days). I filed my N-400 online through ELIS at 2:30am, staying up late because I was excited to finally begin this final chapter in my immigration journey.
 
I hit an early roadblock when the receipt NoA for some reason assigned me an N-400 priority date of the previous day, 2nd January. The "application received on" date was correct since it said 3rd January. I posted about it here more than once, and the consensus seemed to be that USCIS would honour the "received" date, not the "priority" date.
 
It took a year of waiting (thanks, Dallas backlog) but I eventually got my naturalisation interview scheduled for 14th January of this year. I dutifully attended, answered all questions and passed all the tests, but was told a decision could not be made. Well the decision was made tonight, and a denial notice popped up in my online USCIS account. The reason? I applied too early. The notice stated that I applied on 2nd January, 2018, and was only eligible to file on 3rd January, 2018. Again, this wasn't mentioned at the interview, and I brought all my emailed ELIS receipts and other documents showing I filed on 3rd January in case they ever brought it up, but they didn't.
 
So it's been a fun night. After a brief period of shouting, loudly, I began to move into attack mode.
 
What I have done so far:
 
1) Emailed the CIS Ombudsman giving them the entire story, receipts with timestamps showing I applied on the correct date, and all that jazz. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the Ombudsman is closed right now as part of the partial federal government shutdown, so I'm not really expecting much out of this immediately.
 
2) I'm going to my Congressman's local office tomorrow to give them the story and all the same documents and seeing if they can intercede with USCIS on my behalf.
 
3) Emailed my old lawyer and another lawyer that helped me back in 2013 to see if they can offer suggestions. Not trying to freeload on them; I offered to pay whatever fee they deem reasonable on this, since it's obviously no longer in DIY territory.
 
4) I'll be contacting the two biggest local newspapers, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, to see if they're interested in doing a story on this. I figure the more attention I can get on it the more likely I am to get something done.
 
I also have the option of either filing a fresh application, together with its $725 fee and one year wait time, or an N-336 formal appeal of their decision. Fun fact on the N-336: it costs $700 to file, and you will often wait almost as long as it costs to process a new N-400, so they kinda get you coming and going on that one. I'm not ruling anything out yet, but for now I'm hanging my hat on something from 1-4 getting me somewhere on this.
 
So at the end of the day, anyone intending to file for naturalisation on the day they become eligible: DON'T DO IT. Wait a couple of days, then submit. You will avoid all this bull, and can instead deal with some other USCIS bull that will be unrelated to this.
 
Now it's time to write some letters to newspapers and see if I can get anywhere. I will post replies here as to what happens, if anything meaningful does.

Marry & apply for a spousal visa. Good luck.

I love reading all of your heartfelt expressions of frustration with this long process.  I haven't met anyone here on VJ but I can sense a connection through your words.  I can relate and empathize and that makes a world of difference.  Thank you everyone, please know that your words comfort me, to know that others feel much the same way as I do, and as my husband does.  We all cope with this long wait to be together in different ways, but to know that there is an ending that will someday bring us together, whether in the US or some other country, helps so much to allay the doubts and fears and increase the patience that we all need to get through it.  Thank God for VJ and this very supportive community!  It has helped so much to check on how everyone is doing, offer a bit of advice to the newbies, and to know that we are together in this fight for love.  Thanks again to all of you!  And all the best wherever you are in this journey.

I don't like to pry into people's social lives, but you mentioned it, so I'll give my two cents.
 
Drinking every evening, every day, isn't healthy for any relationship, even if you were together. There's a lot of science to suggest alcohol can create dependency, and no doubt that it can cause issues with anger, depression etc, that carries with it a plethora of other risks and spill over into life and relationships.
 
- It's hard to help people break such habits, especially from thousands of miles away, but it may be worth (delicately) broaching.
- Don't bring up immigration all the time, it's like watching paint dry, and then talking about it. 
- However, communication and being open about emotions and expectations is so incredibly important, and at the risk of sounding like a jerk, it can be revealing if certain gestures aren't reciprocated by the person that supposedly loves you. I'd disagree with the guy that says being stoic as a rule is a good thing - nobody likes a complainer, but if something is, for good reason, bothering you or the relationship, then there is no good reason to bury it.

I don't like to pry into people's social lives, but you mentioned it, so I'll give my two cents.
 
Drinking every evening, every day, isn't healthy for any relationship, even if you were together. There's a lot of science to suggest alcohol can create dependency, and no doubt that it can cause issues with anger, depression etc, that carries with it a plethora of other risks and spill over into life and relationships.
 
- It's hard to help people break such habits, especially from thousands of miles away, but it may be worth (delicately) broaching.
- Don't bring up immigration all the time, it's like watching paint dry, and then talking about it. 
- However, communication and being open about emotions and expectations is so incredibly important, and at the risk of sounding like a jerk, it can be revealing if certain gestures aren't reciprocated by the person that supposedly loves you. I'd disagree with the guy that says being stoic as a rule is a good thing - nobody likes a complainer, but if something is, for good reason, bothering you or the relationship, then there is no good reason to bury it.