Just wanted to update here. We passed our interview last week on Mar. 19 in Buenos Aires. The visa officer who interviewed my partner gave him a hard time (I could hear a lot of what they said on the other side of the door). She interviewed him mostly in English but asked a few questions in Spanish too for some reason. He did great and after 55 minutes, he came out and just said to me that it was my turn (she wanted to talk to me, so good thing I went to the interview). I was with her for about 10 minutes and she asked me questions about what we had in common, and what I did for a living, and I could see she was kind of skeptical. But when I mentioned that we liked to cook and that I could speak some Spanish, she kind of changed her tone and spoke to me in Spanish a little and about Latin culture. She told me in the end our relationship seemed to be "eligible" and that after they checked my partner's new PCC and driving record and made sure that his medical results were still valid, she would email him next week.
On the following day, though, the visa officer left a message on my cell phone just before 6 PM and asked if my partner could bring in his passport to the embassy. As it was late, (by the time we get there, the embassy would have been closed), we went the next day at 8:30 AM to give them my partner's passport. The agent there photocopied it and gave it back to my partner and said his coPR might be ready after 3 PM that day. However, we were both had 4:30 PM flights to catch that day, so we told her that they should just email my partner and have them send the coPR to his house. We left the embassy after that. 2 hours later though at 10:30 I got another call/message on the cellphone that the coPR was ready. We had a cab ordered to take us to the airport at 12:30 PM, but decided to make a trip to the embassy. Luckily the traffic was not too bad, so at 11:00 AM we got there and my partner got his coPR.
It was a crazy time. As I have had a few days now to reflect on it, I guess how it all happened so fast in getting the coPR in the end was almost like a reward for us having to wait almost 14 months to get to this stage.
As our story was a worse case scenario of what can happen, when you start to lose hope, just remember it will eventually all come to an end!