MoKhaleel

Unfortunately our case took longer to be approved than average. So don’t take it as a reference. And you also have an expedited case so hopefully your case will move faster:
 
PD: March 28, 2018
RFE: beginning of December, 2018
Approval date: ?
Sent to NVC: January 14th, 2019
 
We got RFE because in my country, birth certificate is not a hardcopy certificate. You go to Civil Records Office and submit a request for a print of your civil records (birth, marriage, divorce..etc) with the reason you need it. My mom wrote “to be submitted to American authorities for immigration” so they’ve printed the English version of it for her and stamped / signed it. 
She got an RFE for not sending the original but only the translation! 
So in December, my mom wrote the reason “personal use” and got a copy in her country’s language, then paid a translation office (to English again.) Then it got approved by USCIS. Crazy but true, what a comedy!

Mokhaleel, that June 4th case they put up there is the “newest dated” case they’re processing, among thousands of cases. It doesn’t mean the “oldest” case in process.
 
Theorically, the best place to check your status is https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do but unfortunately statuses aren’t updated real time. Many people got approval (or rfe) letters in the mail whilst their status still reading “we have received your case”.
 
Only time I’ve seen a different status there for my mom was “we have sent your case to the department of state” which meant they approved the I-130 and sent it to National Visa Center. 
 
I’m attaching a screen shot of what that (approval status) looked like:

Even replacing 2018 with 2019 I do not understand your question. I think you misunderstand how the process works.

Thank you for spotting such a tiny typo. How is your reply helping Mokhaleel? We are all here to ask for help and/or give help. His question is very clear.

Today is not 2018!

I tried to expedite my husbands case way back when for the same humanitarian reason and I was informed it was denied so I just assume they information everyone when they get denied or approved.

If you see action then you know your case has been expedited, usually you aren't told it has not.

no sorry, it just means they took for example a box home that has many different petition but if they took it home there is a good chance they are now working on it, however can't say if it will be completed sooner.
 
for example if in that box they take home the officer sends out a RFE, everything can potentially be put on hold until the RFE gets returned on that case.
 
I am surprised you didn't hear back about the expedite in November, normally they answer expedites within 7 days.

Then you are still within normal processing time?

did you file AOS as if she was here in USA? or is she in Iraq, if you expedited June 2018 you would have heard something back then.
 
I assume you were a USC back when you first filed
 
Telework is what many do when adjudicating files they take a stack home to work on, they have so many days in the office and so many days out of the office and work from home.