Moving back to the States with UK spouse

Thanks Sarah and Brooke (great to hear from you by the way, you lurker!). It's a way off for us yet anyway, it just seems unfair to me that if you go into the green card lottery the paperwork is minimal compared to the spouse route where you have to have a sponsor etc etc. although as you say ours should be fairly straightforward, especially once our baby is registered as a US citizen as well.

Congrats Kingy! (sorry, don't know your real name!) 

You must feel such a HUGE relief! So did they give you the visa that day, or have you received it via courier since your posting?

Thank you so much for all the details; it helps tremendously. So now I wll probably have to book a flight to London, pay $1000 for so little notice, and be there and back in three days. Ugh. 

But it is good to know that I really should be there, and quite honestly I would have been a nervous wreck here in San Diego waiting to hear how it went!

One thing making us crazy though is the fact that we still haven't heard anything!  I've looked at everyone else's timelines and it seems like we're behind (figures...). But Laurie keeps reminding me that there was a Bank Holiday in there, so that may explain it. Yeah, right. Poor guy...I must say "Did anything come in the mail???" about a thousand times a week!

So here's where we are so far (and does anyone think we should perhaps contact them since it's been so long?):

Fri Apr 23: sent in all docs (I-130s, DS-230, etc)

Tues Apr 27: credit card debited

AND THAT'S IT! Seems like most people have gotten the NOA two weeks after sending everything. OK, I know I'm anxious, but I can't help it. 

Any ideas???
Brooke 

It's early yet Brooke - hang tight. I bet you will hear something soon - a letter accepting your petition. About a month from now (maybe less) you will get your appointment letter   

just bumping this up