Approval: Spouse Visa - Priority - Outside the UK (USA)

Received the approval today!

Priority, outside the UK (US)
Bio - July 3rd; ECO - July 11
VFX tracker changed to "Decision Made by UKVI" on July 28, but no decision email that week
Did a paid enquiry on Aug 4; got the response the same day, it said that the case is still being processed
Approval email - Aug 5 (it does seem that the enquiries might help if you are stuck in that limbo of getting the actual decision email.

24 days, including the bio day and the approval day.

My wife did the keep your passport option, and the validity start date is August 12, so probably that's the visa delivery window to the VFS location (went to the LA location)

Applied with a solicitor's help, as I just moved to the UK, and there were some questions about proving the income that we did not want to mess up. If your case is straightforward, you can probably do this without a solicitor.

Good luck to everyone waiting for their visas; it will happen soon! :)