Hey, you don’t need to tell me anything. I am a naturalized citizen. You don’t wait a whole year before you get your green card. It should be ready after you go through the immigration procedure. Mine was. And btw I made my GED for the heck of it, in the 1980s (I have to look the exact date up) in the same high school my daughter graduated from and I came here in 1966
The attorney said to expect 8-9 months after marrying to get the green card (and not to worry about international travel issues).
You’d think that someone on a unexpired ongoing student visa who got married would now have two good reasons to be here, but apparently it sets up a conflict that hostile bureaucrats like to exploit. Return from the honeymoon on your student Visa, and they can reject your green card application for fraud (and deport you) because as a newlywed, you have an intention to immigrate that is in conflict with entry on a visa.
Figure $3000-4000 for legal and filing fees to get the green card.