Congrats Kjinnj--wishing you the best, long and short. Hope you keep us posted. I'd offer you help with USCIS, but so much has changed in the last six or seven years since we suffered---I mean 'did it' -- from paper work formats they use, to fees. There's plenty of good resources here though, so make use of them, as well as visajourney.com.
I think the best advice I have to offer is that while you should take it seriously with an eye for detail, try not to 'over do it'. I looked at everything figuratively speaking, with a microscope, from every conceivable angle, second guessing myself the whole way through, to the point where it took way longer than it should have.
Find people here and there, to 'cross reference' questions and concerns.
There's a common sense element you can apply to it and no two applications/forms in the process are typically the same. They are human and most USCIS people we dealt with were reasonable, ONCE you got a hold of them.
Worst case scenario and something needs fixing, it's rare that you restart from square one. I did have to send one expensive quickie Fed Ex document one time. And at one point, they said there had been no issue of a NOA #2 , although we already were at the NOA step three. Ironically, for a couple hundred dollars, as I recall, they offered to make us a COPY of the NOA two document that they said didn't exist--kind of govt. space cadet B.S..
I finally got a real, live USCIS person who didn't just look at the monitor and say "All I can tell you is the same thing you're seeing from our website on your computer monitor" on the phone, who fixed that--but that took patience and luck.
We found that to get through to someone helpful and actually a living person at the USCIS office, to either do the telephone menu instructions completely backwards, or in random order--I'm not sure if that still works, but it really did for us. Shouting "FIRE!" didn't seem to help, though. Calling your Congressman or Senator isn't as helpful as it once was, if it helps at all--unlike the pre 9/11 days.
If you have a good track record of keeping evidence of your obviously ongoing relationship and you've been there 2 or 3 times, just using common sense and not making molehills into mountains with the paper work ought to keep you fine. Actually being there for the interview seems to help a whole lot where your lovely wife is coming from, but we got real lucky.
I wasn't able to fly to the Embassy (in our case the Philippines) and my wife's quite a bit younger than me (she helps me find my teeth, aerosol spray on hair and eye glasses EVERY time (JOKE
) and I was having some 'Imodium moments' up to interview day and yet immediately after the interview, the Yankee Embassy guy who did the interview, actually TEXTED my wife, wishing her happiness on her new life in the USA--instead of making her wait for the snail mail. I should've sent BOTH of them flowers, looking back....
Again,
BEST WISHES!
