Hello Maki! It can be 12-14 months, longer or shorter. It also will take time (2-3 months), after USCIS approval, after NVC, to get your Interview date and do your interview. About your situation regarding the job... it depends on your possibilities as a single person and as a couple together. Hard fact is, USCIS doesn't care about your income, but your husbands income, cause he will be your legal sponsor when you move to the US, so for USCIS it is important that he earns money over a specific threshold. How you live your life in between and later together in the US job wise, is really your personal matter. If you have the means right now and if it is good for you and what you need and want, to be without a job, depends on you, and on you two as a couple and what you agree on together. Simply what works for you both. I also quit my job. I am at Austria, Vienna, my husband is in California. I live off my savings and honestly don't want to work here again while I wait. We agreed on that and also would like to build up a classical life over at the US where he provides the financial means through a job, while I do the housework. We are a gay trans couple. What I just want to say, there is no easy answer to that question. People and relationships are colorful and the limits are the individual people involved. Talk, talk, talk with each other... be absolutely honest with each other, and most important, to yourself in the first place. Work both hard on yourselves and your relationship, your trust and respect for each other, with open eyes to reality as well to find out what you WANT to do, alone and as a couple, and what you CAN do. So you can meet in reality and build up your life together. We wait for 4 months now and submitted I-130 and I-129f K3 visa (I recommend to do that as well, because it is free and has the possibility to speed up things if you are lucky). I wish you all the best for your future and family! Congratulations to your marriage and that step you take here! :)

hi rik k-g! I appreciate your comment and congratulations on your marriage too 💕 wow you are in a similar situation as me! I think I’ll find a job and save some money. because I’d rather have some as I don’t feel good asking him for money every time I need something. he already told me that he doesn’t mind providing but it’s for my own sanity 😇💅 if you don’t mind me asking, what’s I-129f for?? since we are legally married!

Haha, I understand that, it's a mental struggle for sure. 💪 The I-129f K3 visa is to enable married couples to be allowed to be together at the US while they wait for their I-130 to be approved. USCIS normally doesn't approves K3s, but it still can fasten up your I-130, as they don't want the doubled work for the same, so to say, and so just approve the I-130 faster in some cases, cause then the K3 has no meaning anymore anyway. That's how our lawyer explained it. It's not promised, but it CAN make the process faster. It doesn't hurt after all, as it is completely free without a fee. :) Thank you for your congrats! 💚