NM2001

You can always try and request, just be honest in your request. It won’t hurt your case even if they don’t approve it. No harm in requesting. Good luck! 

Yes, we had a joint sponsor. We didn't provide any proof of financial hardship other than stating the facts, that my son is a full time student and working part time at the same time supporting his wife in PK. Also we already went through AP during our fiancée petition that was not approved. But we also had a lot of supporting evidence such as just recently meeting up in Dubai before Covid. Every case is different so they take into account a lot of different things. 

Financial and emotional hardship.

We expedited, so they may be only doing emergency expedited cases and mission critical cases. They had a limited amount of applicants their.