Jacke

We arrived in the US on May 7th, just updated everything on our timeline/profile. May be helpful for anyone in a similar situation where your regular US Embassy is no longer an option for an interview. 

PD May 3 21, TSC. We got yesterday our first actively reviewing update. Hoping to hear second one soon and get approved!

We just found our approval notice online.

PD: May 26th, 2021
Active Review: Since June 14th, 2021
Approved: December 17th, 2021

Correction: 1 day before.

Congratulations @Jacke.  Did you file K3?   Wishing you good luck on your approval and for the rest of the journey

We just found our approval notice online.

PD: May 26th, 2021
Active Review: Since June 14th, 2021
Approved: December 17th, 2021

Congratulations!

We just found our approval notice online.

PD: May 26th, 2021
Active Review: Since June 14th, 2021
Approved: December 17th, 2021

We filed electronically in mid-Apr and had the familiar story of being notified electronically that the case had gone to Nebraska but with a receipt letter from California.  Eventually a call to USCIS confirmed California.  Tried to get it expedited due to a work relocation back home but with no success.  Since then I have been checking the USCIS account weekly and watching the data on this website.  After a couple of months where nobody on VJ being processed by California seemed to receive a NOA2 (maybe something to do with processing all the Afghans) it does look like things are moving again slowly.
 
My advice is to (a) make sure your timeline is correctly entered in VJ - the more data, the better the predictions and (b) watch how approvals on your service centre are playing out.  If you filter the data to show all cases (not just unapproved) arranged by NOA1 you can see how quickly things are being processed.  The official processing times are way longer than what seems to be reality for most applicants who upload their progress on VJ.  Finally, make sure that you are ready to go with either additional evidence for USCIS if requested or with everything that you need for NVC.
 
Hope that helps.

Wow! I hope it doesn't take that long for y'all. Congrats on I-130 approval and DQ though! 

I can't find the April thread so I decided to post here instead.
 
We submitted our application on April 17th, and it was updated to under active review on April 20th.
My husband is British and we both currently live in the UK, we had only been married a few months when we applied.
We were notified we were being processed at the Nebraska Service Center when we received the USCIS acknowledgement letter.
We heard absolutely nothing after that.
We use an app called Case Tracker to see at a glance the status of our case.
A little over a week ago I used USCIS' online help to try and find out what was going on with our case. We didn't get any update, but were notified that our case was no longer at Nebraska but at the California center. We hadn't received any notice of that, and there was no indication online about the change.
On November 10th, my husband noticed that the day count had changed on Case Tracker, though the status still said under active review. I verified this on USCIS' website. I remembered seeing someone say that often times the approval notice will be uploaded to the documents on the USCIS website long before your status is updated, so I checked and found we did have our approval notice.
 
Anyways, hope this helps some folks. I'm glad we are moving on to the next stage. Does anyone have a sense how long it is currently taking the NVC to send the paperwork for the next stage?

We're both in Russia and will be here until her immigrant visa is ready, and we occasionally live in a nearby country for however long to keep my visa compliant in Russia. This was indicated in our application but the USCIS account info shows me living at my US mailing address. A lawyer we consulted advised us not to change this and stated that it shouldn't cause any complications or delays. The lawyers and folks we've consulted with are about 50/50 on whether the I-129F trick actually works (the trick being, it leads to I-130 processing instead of your I-129F - when they get to it). Based on current timelines we're seeing on here, Lawfully and elsewhere, it seems the I-130 will probably beat the I-129F anyway. Still, can't hurt, as it is free to file! Good free insurance to some extent, I suppose. 

You can use Ask Emma to request a live agent on the USCIS website. They will be able to inform you of the current service center. You can also call USCIS as well to request this information. I'm not familiar with NE (other than the USCIS website estimates) but from what I've seen with CA, I'd expect to start seeing approvals in the next month or so for May I-130 filers. Each case is its own deal though. As we've seen on one end, some have already been approved! Let's keep in touch!

Oh I see! Thank you for sharing.
I also read that updating your evidence with new pics could help too. 
Anyway, we are not in a hurry, but we reaaaaaally hope to entrance USA in August, haha.
Good luck with fast approval!

We're both in Russia and will be here until her immigrant visa is ready, and we occasionally live in a nearby country for however long to keep my visa compliant in Russia. This was indicated in our application but the USCIS account info shows me living at my US mailing address. A lawyer we consulted advised us not to change this and stated that it shouldn't cause any complications or delays. The lawyers and folks we've consulted with are about 50/50 on whether the I-129F trick actually works (the trick being, it leads to I-130 processing instead of your I-129F - when they get to it). Based on current timelines we're seeing on here, Lawfully and elsewhere, it seems the I-130 will probably beat the I-129F anyway. Still, can't hurt, as it is free to file! Good free insurance to some extent, I suppose. 

You can use Ask Emma to request a live agent on the USCIS website. They will be able to inform you of the current service center. You can also call USCIS as well to request this information. I'm not familiar with NE (other than the USCIS website estimates) but from what I've seen with CA, I'd expect to start seeing approvals in the next month or so for May I-130 filers. Each case is its own deal though. As we've seen on one end, some have already been approved! Let's keep in touch!

I-130 NOA1: 05/26/2021
I-130 Case Is Actively Being Reviewed: 06/14/2021
I-129F RCVD: 08/09/2021

US citizen applying for a spouse (Russian Federation).
Original Service Center: Nebraska
Current Service Center: California
Filed: Online (overseas)

Will post an update when any changes occur. Feeling optimistic about the late November/early December 2021 window based on information from this site.