chiblosom

thanks for your advice, I checked my mail the next day and a letter indicating the PD and notification of form. I was required to verify my husband's DOB "if required" by calling a number provided. I didn't reply or call the number as his DOB was correct. My question now is, am I right by not replying or calling them, and do I need to call soon? Also, my letter doesn't tell me whether my form was sent to Texas or California how long do I have to wait for that?
 

All will go well. 

Thank you.

Some of the things to take can be country specific and I believe in the appointment letter there’s a link to follow for things to send to your interview 
some things tho cuts across which is the beneficiary’s original civil documents n your tax transcripts (all u sent to nvc)

Yes Yes Yes… Congratulations to you too!

Yes Yes Yes… Congratulations to you too!

VISA APPROVED!!!!! We are so happy and emotional right now! We were really nervous but the interview was quick! 

Passport size photo 

By offer do you mean an employment letter? I don't think you're penalized at all, I don't think there's a time frame to my knowledge anyway. As for pics I just made a collage of pics for our recent visit on an 8x10 and scanned that. I also sent pics with the original petition but again same type of thing. Hopefully its enough, now I'm getting nervous LOL! I don't have chat or call logs either. I feel like its overkill as we are married and they were too hard to obtain. This part of the process sucked!

I filed an I-130 petition for my husband in July of 2018.  Today his CR-1 visa was approved so we're near the end of the long wait to finally live together.  My husband and I arrived at the consulate in Rio de Janeiro this morning, just before 7 am, for his 7:40 am appointment.  At about 7:50 am my husband's name was called, to go to window 14 which is the one with a door that you close behind you when entering. I was more nervous than my husband was--we have a big age gap and my Portuguese is not great but he was very calm and confident.  We had front-loaded and side-loaded with lots of relationship evidence.  My husband was only asked a few questions in Portuguese by a very nice younger female American consulate officer. She asked him how we met, when we met, and how many times in person I had visited him in Brazil (8 times). I added, in Portuguese, that we had recently spent 11 days in Europe together, so a total of 9 trips together, plus the current one in Rio (7 days), so a total of ten face to face visits. The CO only asked me two questions, in English, my current profession, and how long I had been working in that field. After that she said everything was good, the visa was approved, and that it would arrive in about two weeks by courier service. The whole interview was maybe 5 minutes and we were done and approved. I couldn't believe how smoothly it went. We left the room and passed all the people waiting for their interviews after us and stepped out into the stairwell where we had one of the biggest hugs ever. I started to cry, and we walked out into the glorious warm sunshine of Rio in the morning of Brazilian Valentine's Day. Life is good!  And good luck to all of you still waiting.  Your day will come.

Thanks, will try that. You're very helpful.

I got interview date 19 days. after case complete! Its coming soon!

Wow, congrats! Yours was really fast. How long did you take to get a CASE NUMBER? Am waiting for mine.

Thank you, gives me hope.

CONGRATULATIONS to you!! have been rooting for you. Good luck with the interview. How long does it take to get a case number? NOA2 April 26, sent to NVC May 3rd.

We just received the email that my husband's interview will be June 12 in Rio!!  Faster that we expected but we are so happy!  CC was May 2, interview email received today, May 21, interview June 12.  God is watching over us.  Now we're changing our travel plans for June.  We had planned to be together for a week on the beach in Brazil to celebrate our first wedding anniversary, June 21, now we're adjusting for this news, to be together for his medical exam June 5 and interview June 12.  Good luck everyone while you wait.

Case completed! document qualified! interview time. FINALLY

Yah!!! So happy for you, am glad you finally have a CASE COMPLETE. 

YAY CASE COMPLETE!!!! My NVC process has taken a bit longer for no apparent reasons, they received my case on 1/22/19. Does anyone know how long it takes for them to notify you of an interview date? (Not how long for actual interview) Just wondering if we'll find out soon the date or it could be a week before the interview...

Thanks and hang in there...  NVC seems to be working hard these days, to assign case numbers (ours took one month), and to review and approve documents (in our case this happened after just over two weeks).  So NVC is improving its processing times for CR-1/IR-1.  Make sure you read all the NVC advice about how to scan and upload documents correctly, to avoid delays later in the process.  If there are problems it typically takes another three weeks for them to review after the documents are corrected.  Good luck!

I have called NVC at various times, it often takes multiple tries to get through to a real person, but with patience I have usually been successful, lots of waiting on hold.  If you want to get through you eventually will.
 
By the way, this morning we received "Documentarily Qualified" at NVC!!  All documents were accepted after only two weeks of uploading everything on April 14, no problems, but we were very careful to follow all the instructions.  I also just uploaded three missing pages from my tax transcript only two days ago so we feel lucky that we got through NVC so quickly.  Now we are waiting for my husband's interview in Rio to be scheduled....  it's a very exciting feeling to be so close to the end of this crazy process that we started when the I-130 was filed last year on July 20.  There's a very good chance that my husband's interview will be scheduled less than a year after filing his petition.  Hang in there everyone!  The end will come eventually.

Big congrats...Waiting on NVC to receive my case.

Big congrats...Waiting on NVC to receive my case.

@chiblosom
 
this link is to a great guide to the NVC process.  It’s worth spending lots of time getting familiar with its contents. 
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/after-petition-approved/begin-nat-visa-center.html

Yes Yes Yes!! I finally got an approval for my I-130 yesterday April 26 which also happens to be my birthday. This is the best birthday gift ever. Phew off to the next stage!  
PD July 25, 2018.
RFE Sent April 15