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Less than a month?! See, mine is taking way too long! It's been 44 days today since the USCIS received it!

I requested USCIS to have the J waiver expedited for two criteria (medical emergency and financial loss), I send the documents to proof the need to have the case expedited and they expedited it. The timeline also depends on the center that the case is being processed. I am not sure if applications made outside of US would be process in the same way. From all forums and information that I collected when I was applying for the J1 waiver usually does not take longer than 2 months.

I recommend you find out what Center is processing your case to have an better estimate on how long is gonna take. Based on the information that I have, No objection cases are faster and it is only a matter of time to get approved.

Uptade on my timeline for the J1waiver

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J1 waiver timeline based on non-objection

Documents received by DOS - February 17, 2016

No Objection Statement - March 08, 2016

Incomplete Information Letter - March 21, 2016

Update documents received - April 13, 2016

Favorable recommendation sent - April 21, 2016

I-612 received by USCIS Vermont Office - April 26,2016

Final approval by USCIS I-797C Notice of Action (NOA) - May 20th 2016

Received at my address in US the I-797C Notice of Action (NOA) - May 25th 2016

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I am also a former CNPQ scholar from Brazil.

Good luck to all.

Hi All,

Just want to share my timeline for J1 waiver application based on no-objection.

For the newbies, the process is not hard, I recommend if you have experience in grant applications I suggest that you should do it yourself. I did with a lawyer and it was a sequence of mistakes and waste of my precious time and money.

The total process for receiving the favorable recommendation was about two months including the lawyer mistake of not sending the Form G-28 (only if you are using a lawyer) with the initial application and requesting the non-objection only in February, way later than it should be. His mistakes cost me at least one month in delays.

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J1 waiver timeline based on non-objection

Documents received by DOS - February 17, 2016

No Objection Statement - March 08, 2016

Incomplete Information Letter - March 21, 2016

Update documents received - April 13, 2016

Favorable recommendation sent - April 21, 2016

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