My fiance and her daughter have now been here for almost 3 days. It was an eternity in waiting.
She is from Central America and so I have no insight about those particular embassies.. but there was one thing that you said that I felt qualified to respond to.
You mentioned moving so that she could be near her family while you wait. One thing about that, is that you will have ample time to wait and hence she will have ample time to visit the family. Likewise, I don't believe that the embassies will impact your wait nearly as much as which processing center in the US receives your package. We watched as the estimated wait time in other processing centers remained constant, while the wait time eventually doubled for us because the people in California were putting in it an honest 40 minute work day at their houses, as they weren't required to go to the office for 2 1/2 years after covid began.
Otherwise, the common wisdom had been that a fiance could get over to the United States faster than a wife. But as others have commented, while we were waiting an eternity, we saw that the spousal visas were being handled much more quickly.
Best of luck...
No longer so Gruntled
