Koops

This is the first time I've made a post, but I just want to let everyone reading know that my standalone spousal i-130 was approved over the weekend. I've been following this thread in the background for the last few months. This thread, along with the September and August threads helped me keep my sanity over this whole process, so I appreciate everyone who contributed and continues to contribute. Hopefully my small contribution can be a ray of hope to somebody. I expected the i-130 process to be only about 12 months, I didn't expect it to drag out to 16 months! It's been especially frustrating reading about people with AOS requests using i-130/i-485 that were submitted after my PD but still approved months ago - when I first submitted the i-130, the processing time was the same for both standalone and AOS. My PD was 10/11/23, and I was approved on 2/8/25. I submitted online so I'm not sure if there was a specific service center involved. I did end up emailing my Senator 2 weeks ago, but I haven't heard back (yet?), so I'm not sure if that impacted anything. Fingers crossed that the next steps go smoothly and are quicker! Good luck to everyone!