J1 Hardship Waiver 2021-2022 Timeline

[Hardship_waiver 50]

17 hours ago, PeterW said:

I am so sad to hear that. I have similar situation with you. My application was received by DOS at April 2022 and my J will expire next month. I also have to leave soon. My US citizen kid will lose medical care as well.

Was your application forwarded by USCIS in April 2022? or DOS uploaded it in April? In my case DOS took 5 months just to upload an electronic communication (i-612/i-613) with USCIS.

[DrIdaddoq 22]

Update: no updates. 
April 2021: filed USCIS 

September 2021: USCIS on hold 
September 2021: DoS received 612 613

as of today status: PENDING 

congressional inquiry: just wait, man. first come first serve. 

Very frustrating. 

[PeterW 17]

1 hour ago, Hardship_waiver said:

Was your application forwarded by USCIS in April 2022? or DOS uploaded it in April? In my case DOS took 5 months just to upload an electronic communication (i-612/i-613) with USCIS.

Hello, my case was sent to DOS at Feb 2022, and it was received at April 2022.

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2021 waiver statistics published today by DOS.

[Wyboxcx 45]

10 hours ago, Hardship_waiver said:

2021 waiver statistics published today by DOS.

Wow 7 people had to wait so long just to be rejected . This is so sad 

[exhrdshp 0]

I wonder if the 7 people that got an unfavorable were governmental fundings and the sponsors rejected them  

[DrIdaddoq 22]

I wish they publish real processing times. Like what's the average time for those 262 hardship cases from 2021?

[exhrdshp 0]

7 hours ago, DrIdaddoq said:

I wish they publish real processing times. Like what's the average time for those 262 hardship cases from 2021?

Yeah. I doubt they will ever do it, because it will be well outside of their estimated processing times.

I just was always under an impression that once the USCIS forwards the I-612/613, that meant that they did find an extreme hardship, so I dont understand how there still can be 7 Unfavorables.

[DrIdaddoq 22]

21 minutes ago, exhrdshp said:

Yeah. I doubt they will ever do it, because it will be well outside of their estimated processing times.

I just was always under an impression that once the USCIS forwards the I-612/613, that meant that they did find an extreme hardship, so I dont understand how there still can be 7 Unfavorables.

Someone mentioned the sponsor views. Take a look at this 

[exhrdshp 0]

12 hours ago, DrIdaddoq said:

Someone mentioned the sponsor views. Take a look at this 

Thank you. Just to ease my worrying a little bit, do you happen to know of any case where there is a Sponsor Views involved, but it has a favorable recommendation  

[DrIdaddoq 22]

1 hour ago, exhrdshp said:

Thank you. Just to ease my worrying a little bit, do you happen to know of any case where there is a Sponsor Views involved, but it has a favorable recommendation  

There you go

[Hardship_waiver 50]

21 hours ago, DrIdaddoq said:

There you go

How you found out these cases? Random search?

[ErinK 35]

2 hours ago, Hardship_waiver said:

How you found out these cases? Random search?

what type of cases need sponsor views?

[KA1214 1]

On 10/31/2022 at 11:19 PM, Freidrichm said:

My case has been with USCIS for almost 6 months now and they haven't sent me anything, no RFE, and have not forwarded it to DOS either. It's getting depressing. 

Is your case received by USCIS around May? Do you have any updates on yours? Mine is already 6 mos with them and no updates whatsoever. 😔

Edited November 10, 2022 by KA1214

[Wyboxcx 45]

6 hours ago, ErinK said:

what type of cases need sponsor views?

Typically cases that received Government funding. For example, Fullbright cases always request sponsor views and these are often negative and political. Did you receive government funding either from the US or your home country?