All being well, you will get the notification of your I-130 approval a few months after filing. For us, it took 8 months to have our I-130 approved but some couples waited longer than that and some couples had a much shorter wait. There is no logic to it unfortunately.
Anyway, that beautiful day came for us at the end of April 2019 and we saw the words we have been waiting for - Your I-130 petition is APPROVED. Great news and congrats were in order! We were informed that our petition would be sent by USCIS to the National Visa Center (NVC) so we can begin visa processing. The transfer of an approved case from USCIS to NVC can take up to 6 weeks. You may wish to contact NVC (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/national-visa-center/nvc-contact-information.html) to ask them if they received the case, but be prepared to hear the same message every time you call - please wait, it may take a while. Once NVC receives your case, they will allocate a new NVC case number (for the UK, cases normally start with LND########## , LND = short for London being the relevant Embassy that will eventually schedule and hold the interview) and give you an Invoice number too. That Invoice number is equally as important as the Case number as you will need both to identify your case and log on to NVC's online system. For us, it took approx 4 weeks for NVC to receive our case and allocate the numbers. We were notified by email of this, so be sure to check your emails!
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