had the waiver appointment...

[brendavera 2]

to make a long story short,I'm a U.S Citizen. I submitted the 1-130 for my husband back in january 2012. He had his visa interview on November 15 2012 and was asked to schedule a waiver appointment to submit the I-601 waiver( he lived in the U.S illegally for 6 years)

his waiver appointment was on November 29 2012. He went to his appointment and turned in the waiver application and packet. They told him to wait 30 days to get a response from them via DHL. could anyone tell me what to expect next? what will they say? and will it really take 30 days?

please respond to my question thank you soo much. god bless you all

[canadian_wife 1,827]

What will they say? They will either say there is extreme hardship to the US citizen or they won't. We don't know your case

good luck

[Mrs.A2010 4]

to make a long story short,I'm a U.S Citizen. I submitted the 1-130 for my husband back in january 2012. He had his visa interview on November 15 2012 and was asked to schedule a waiver appointment to submit the I-601 waiver( he lived in the U.S illegally for 6 years)

his waiver appointment was on November 29 2012. He went to his appointment and turned in the waiver application and packet. They told him to wait 30 days to get a response from them via DHL. could anyone tell me what to expect next? what will they say? and will it really take 30 days?

please respond to my question thank you soo much. god bless you all

Brenda, I"m so glad to hear that he was able to get an appt to turn the waiver in SO FAST after his interview!! People always make it sound like months in between those.

I hope it doesn't take the full 30 days to decide on the waiver either. Please come back and post again to let us know when you hear back!

Good luck!!

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

Wow, you are one of the last people to use the waiver system in Mexico - these days just about everybody is filing to the waiver lockbox in Phoenix. As of December 4, Mexico will no longer accept the waivers in its system, they'll finish processing the ones (like yours) that have already been submitted, and that will be the end of the system in Mexico, everything will be centralized in the US from that point forward. What this means is that very little is known about how things are going with waivers in Mexico, since very few people have been using that route. It could take 30 days. It could take less. Mexico's system was unique in that they used a two-tier process: First they would decide if it was "immediately approvable" and if so, it would be approved "on the spot". At one time in history, this was done literally the same day, within like an hour of submitting the waiver. In more recent years, it became a multi-week thing where it took them awhile to get to your waiver, and this is where they're at now. However, because of the decreasing volume of waivers at Juarez, I would expect it to take fewer than 30 days to do this. If at the time they review your waiver, they decide it sufficiently demonstrates extreme and unusual hardship with substantial evidence and proof of anything claimed in the letter, then they will approve it, they will request his passport (if they aren't currently holding onto it) and they will put in his visa, return it by DHL, and he'll be all set. If, however, they feel that hardship wasn't sufficiently proven, they will at that point send a letter saying you have something like 84 days to submit additional evidence (but at this point I'd move much faster than that because they may be getting through the waivers more quickly with fewer to deal with).

I suggest visiting Immigrate2us.net for tons more info about waivers and the process through Mexico. Again, most people are now using the lockbox, but if there's anyone familiar with what's going on in Mexico right now, it's going to be the people at immigrate2us.