BigSkyDreamin

The USCIS (Homeland Security) petition approval is 6 to 9 months.  After that the petition goes to NVC (Department of State).  After they pre-process the petition you will get another tracking number.  At that point you can submit the DS-160 (actual visa application) for each of them.  After that it is medical, the interview and then hopefully POE.  That is the first half of the process but at least you can finish it together.

Understood...it’ll be a whole lot easier to manage the continuation of the process if we are together when we are working through it. The biggest hurdle is just getting her and her son to the US.