I submitted my case on Dec 29th and today, Jan 15th, I got a Interview Was Scheduled notification. Goodness I didn't expect things to be moving this quickly. I have a trip planned soon and I come back at the end of the month. I hope the interview gets scheduled later than that, it seems that's the case from what I searched around.
I was eligible to apply for 2 years but kept postponing because I had things lined up. Had to push myself to file at the end of the year otherwise I'd kept pushing it. I thought it's at least 5 months waiting so was sure I had nothing going on beside this one trip.
I'm in WA state and case is IOE