Will Schu

We picked Yerevan, Armenia at the suggestion of a lawyer we consulted when doing the I-129F. 
I would pick someplace that your fiancee can get to without a need to get a visa (like Armenia, Turkey, etc). Getting a visa for anyplace in Iran is a practice in insanity from what I can gather.
 

We will be the same situation and I wondered the same thing! Did you read this on the U.S. Embassy in Armenia website?
 
 
I really hope it's true!

Salaam!
Here's the thing I found out with Yerevan so far.
They expect to communicate with your fiancee. My emails go unanswered, and they'll reply to her within one day. 
When we got the invitation letter, they asked for her email address, and only then did they actually send the invitation document and other information.
 
We did get an interview. Finally!
What she had to do is send them a completed copy of our DS-160, and make her case to get an interview date because our petition is expiring soon. USCIS puts 4 months on the petition, and the NVC ate up 2 months. Yerevan responded in less than one week after the NVC forwarded our case to them.
The free appointment slots are not up when you go through the AIS system to register your DS-160 and pay the MRV fee. They'll open up slots after your fiancee emails them (no phone and they only like to reply to fiancee).
Hopefully, that will change and you'll be able to schedule when you guys in the  information--but be prepared for the stress.
 
From what I can gather, the NVC is mostly contractors. It's probably a safe bet they drag their feet and complain once they accumulate too much to do--so be prepared for any communication dealing with the NVC to be next to nothing. Their inquiry information does say to contact them if you have not received any word 6 weeks after USCIS sends their case to them. Make sure you do! The only communication was the K1_FTP (K1 forwarded to embassy)--and it will be a Rich Text File format. The only way I found out they received our case was through the inquiry system. They never sent any notice.
 
Message me with any questions you have. I'll do my best to respond as soon as I get them.
Make sure to scan your NOAs and keep good copies of everything. Once your case gets to the NVC make sure to start preparing everything you can (start now if you guys can). After the case makes it to Yerevan do your best to move on everything as fast as you can.
 
Good luck!!
-Will
 
 

Also to follow up, we never got an email or letter that the NVC received  our petition. The only notice in that regard is the I-797 (the NOA2) USCIS sent. 

For ours it took about 6 weeks to get a short email from the NVC that our case was forwarded to an embassy. 
The case number is listed at the top of the “K1_FTP” and in the body of the message. 
After that it took about 3 weeks for the embassy to send me an email requesting my fiancée’s email address to send her the welcome invitation email with next to no information in it.
 
You’re going to have to email or call them a lot just to keep things going. The welcome email did not say to send them a copy of the DS-160 confirmation page, but they requested it after we got to a point where we could not do anything. It seems they now custom schedule each interview date to the submitted DS-160 & the case number specific to the embassy (three letter embassy abbreviation followed by some digits that look like a date timestamp).
 
Good luck!
I’ll do my best to keep my timeline update.

Hi everyone, i know its late, I didnt post last week. but here is the overview of processing rates for last month.
It seems that USCIS is loosing steam again, after months of progress, they are reducing processing again (for what ever reason).
On the second screenshot are untouched NOA1 Cases per each Month.
It seems that this decline was caused by situation that USCIS done "on off days" for some reason, one day they do great progress, day after processing rate halves.

I am a May 13th filer. Tomorrow will be the day I can inquire my case about being outside normal processing times. Does anyone have any experience with how long it takes to get a response?

Congratulations!!
it’s good to see someone have progress.
I hope that luck comes our way. We’re now at 443 days after receipt and 434 days since last update after NOA1.

Congratulations!!
it’s good to see someone have progress.
I hope that luck comes our way. We’re now at 443 days after receipt and 434 days since last update after NOA1.

Hello there. Small update for you guys:
We just received our NVC number today (08/02/2022)
NOA1: 05/13/21
NOA2: 07/01/22

Congratulations!
 
We're at 429 days now and going. I'm starting to think it's not because "some cases take longer than others."
 

Congratulations!
 
We're at 429 days now and going. I'm starting to think it's not because "some cases take longer than others."