I applied and paid on Jan. 4th, no update still pending. My wife applied on Jan. 17th, and today it went to conditionally approved. She hasn't been out of the country since 2011 while I went to Israel in 2014 and Canada a few times since 2014. Clean records for both of us. We'll have to travel 2 1/2 hours for the interview since there is no airport around us that does them. Not that we can schedule an interview anyway