Given your situation, here are some considerations about scheduling the medical examination:

1. **Timing of the Medical Exam**:

- **Medical Exam Validity**: The results of the immigration medical examination are generally valid for six months from the date of the examination when applying from abroad. If your wife were to have the medical exam in early March, she would need to have her visa interview within this six-month window for the results to be considered valid.

- **USCIS Processing Time**: The processing time for an I-130 for a spouse of a U.S. citizen can vary widely, but you've already waited 13 months. While it's not guaranteed, if approval is imminent, scheduling the medical exam might be strategic. However, there's no clear indication in your timeline when you might expect approval, and the average processing time can range significantly.

2. **Interview Process**:

- **Interview Location**: Typically, after the I-130 is approved, the National Visa Center (NVC) would process the case before scheduling an interview at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate in Thailand. The interview for a spousal visa usually happens abroad unless your wife has returned to the U.S. under a visa that allows for adjustment of status.

- **Returning to the U.S. for Interview**: If your wife returns to the U.S. with you in late March, she would need to have already started or completed the NVC process for her case to be ready for an Adjustment of Status (AOS) interview in the U.S. instead of an immigrant visa interview in Thailand. This includes having her petition approved, receiving an immigrant visa number, and possibly going through the NVC stage.

3. **Risks**:

- **Premature Medical Exam**: If you schedule the medical exam too early and the I-130 approval takes longer than expected, you might need to redo the exam, which would be an additional cost and inconvenience.

- **Travel Considerations**: If she returns with you to the U.S. without having completed necessary steps abroad (like the interview), her application might get delayed further or require consular processing anyway if she's not legally able to adjust status in the U.S.

4. **Actionable Steps**:

- **Monitor Application Status**: Continue to check the

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If you have to ask you can’t afford it.

Dude it’s easyer to bring family there. It takes years to get vacation thing to America. Besides it be the most amazing time for them. Also if you do this consider marrying her on your return with parents. It be an amazing time. And makes documents easyer. Wait sorry still confusing but better. The ceremony is a big deal not like America

As a vet you could be a Realiter specialist in helping other vets locate and rent there

Go to company see if the company lawyer can decide

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I hear you

For one thing. There is not one bit of knowledge you should be listening to. It’s all couch potatoes lawyers. Only the official Thai embassy you should be getting facts through. Here it’s a get you thinking kinda thing. Other wise I have a bridge for sale.