Mickey344

Not mine. 

Congratulations on your approval. I think you should send a copy of the approval from USCIS to the office where your case is being adjudicated with a copy of your receipt notice for I-485 since that may be the likely reason your case is pending. You are fortunate your case was not denied outright since you did not have a basis to adjust your status before hardship waiver approval. 

Congratulations on your approval. I think you should send a copy of the approval from USCIS to the office where your case is being adjudicated with a copy of your receipt notice for I-485 since that may be the likely reason your case is pending. You are fortunate your case was not denied outright since you did not have a basis to adjust your status before hardship waiver approval. 

I reached out to senators and reps offices, they requested to expedite, quickly rejected and then ignored after repeated requests.  I did not file a lawsuit.  

Just got FR.  52 weeks at DOS.  No government funding.

Got FR today after submitting WoM 2.5 months ago (DoS asked for a 2 week extension). My lawyer reached out to me this morning and said AUSA told them the case is approved. The site was updated roughly 3 hours later.
 
Paid 3.5K for the attorney and highly recommend them. Dm for the attorney recommendation. 
 
 

Finally got approval.
 
My case has been pending with DoS since Feb 2022. Filed a lawsuit which took about 1 month for all parties (USCIS and DOS) to be served. Once they got served, it took around 3 weeks to get FR from DoS. USCIS asked for an extension until Nov but ended up approving the case and sending me the final waiver within 2 weeks of FR from DoS. 
 
I hired a lawyer and paid 5K. Good luck everybody 

Still waiting, since June 2022 at DOS. There have been some approvals that I saw on the FB J1 Waiver group. They were mostly cases from 2021. 

21 months for recommendation. Wow!! 

Another one got it finally. 

Saw this one today. It doesn't show the date of recommendation, but it was pending till last week. 

Yes, 17 months, approved this month.

Nope. The most recent waiver statistics available is for year 2021 on the website. Nothing for fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023 is almost coming to a close. 

I have a positive feeling that a lot of people will get decisions on pending J-1 hardship waivers this month since the 2023 fiscal years closes on 9/30/2023. 
Fingers crossed. 

Wow!! Is that 20 months!!! I’m 

Not mine, but another recent Favorable

I sent an email on that 212ewaiver@…., 
this para was included in the generic reply.

Thanks for your answer. For my case, it is 15 months since DOS received my I-612/613.

DoS typically mails you the decision in the stamped envelope that you submit with the application. However, not everyone receives that. 

Yes, let’s keep the group and community going to support each other. The process is long and lonely. If anyone has any updates please update us to give us some hope through the process. 

HI EVERYONE,
                        MANY AMONG US ARE EXTREMELY STRESSED WITH THIS PROCESS AND NEED OUR HELP AND INPUT TO GO THROUGH IT. 
Please keep this group going and post any result you come across here so that members stay hopeful that things are moving. 
 
What I have observed is that cases that were received by DOS in 2021 are done and DOS is working on cases from the first half of 2022. The date that matters is the receipt date on the DOS portal not when USCIS sent your i-612/i-613 to DOS. 
 
 

The group has been silent for a while. Is anyone getting their cases approved recently? My file has been complete at DOS since Sept 2022. The wait is very exhausting. 

I am a Fulbrighter, hardship to US spouse. Case has been sitting with DOS since June 2022. We tried expediting through a state representative but nothing happened. Will try the senator route this month. This sucks!

Foreign fund meant to be person’s home country government fund

Mine since March 2022(I-612). No US government fund. Hardship to US citizen child. No expedite. 
I see several cases from March 2022 with foreign fund approved over the past 3 months and one case from April 2022.
I see that queue for foreign funds become longer than the US government fund (Fulbright etc.) 
Please let us know if any approvals happened recently.