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Received USCIS Approval after 42 days of received notice.
USCIS first Notice of receiving: April 1,2020
Final USCIS Approval: May 12, 2020
Thank you all for support and information.
 

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do

Hi all, I wanted to share you my timeline. As mentioned March 23rd-FR
March 30 - DoS Physical approval letter
April 1 - USCIS received case
April 6 - USCIS receipt notice
April 16 - USCIS approved case
April 20- got USCIS approval notice. 

Hey guys. Finally some good news. Got my FR on exactly 12th week today. Hopefully USCIS goes faster. Here is my timeline.
  Department of State Advisory Opinion Finding: Favorable Recommendation
  Item Action Date Recommendation Sent April, 20 2020 Fee Received January, 28 2020 Form DS-3035 Received January, 28 2020 Form DS-2019 Received January, 28 2020 No Objection Statement Received January, 28 2020 Passport Data Page Received January, 28 2020 Statement Of Reason Received January, 28 2020  

Congratulations! 

I got my USCIS approval notice in mail. The notice is dated April 15, although my online status still shows pending. Hope it helps! Best wishes for everyone!

I'm new here, but it seems like the DOS has announced some extensions.  It may be extended further to June in the future? "Any J-1 program that had an expiration date between April 1 and May 31, 2020 will be granted a two-month extension in order to provide exchange visitors the opportunity to complete their programs and to continue to finalize travel plans to return home."

Thank you @waiver2020. This forum is so helpful. Super grateful to you all.

Thanks! I was also hoping for positive output. I have a faculty job in hand.. but enough is enough I can't take this anymore.   I hope whatever happening is for the best.  

Congrats!! Happy for you.

hello everyone, 
I just want to share my good news that I have received my FR after the exact 12 weeks of waiting. Here is my timeline:
Department of State Advisory Opinion Finding: Favorable Recommendation
  Item Action Date Recommendation Sent April, 09 2020 No Objection Statement Received January, 16 2020 Fee Received September, 25 2019 Form DS-3035 Received September, 25 2019 Form DS-2019 Received September, 25 2019 Passport Data Page Received September, 25 2019 Statement Of Reason Received September, 25 2019 Other Received September, 25 2019
 

Yes. 

Hey Dev1971,
 
Yesterday I finally got my receipt notice from USCIS. It was issued on April 1st, but the thing is my address was wrong: my street number is 2105 but they entered 2150 lol... I assume there's some manual data entry in relaying the info to USCIS. That fortunately caused an NSN and USPS managed to re-route it to my address.
 
I never got the DoS letter, don't think I ever will. I had tracking labels on both documents, but they have not been scanned to this day so doubt either was sent. I took pictures of the address I wrote on the envelopes and confirmed it was written correctly (and confirmed the same on DS3035). I assume they never sent me those envelopes, maybe the size or postage was wrong, not sure...
 
Rest assured though, that's not needed for the embassy interview/change of status: USCIS has final authority and their approval notice is all that's needed; friend of mine never got his DoS letter either. So, I recommend calling USCIS and asking for your case number; form number for waivers is I612. If they messed up your address you should be able to resolve with USCIS; if neither budges recommend you seek help at your representative's office.

Finally! What a nightmare! 11 weeks later... don't give up guys! Let's see when the H1B suspension is revoked. Good luck ya'll

Hi guys, first time here. June expiration. NOS. 11 weeks deliberation already. H1B process frozen. Absolute desperation.

Thank you. I will be changing my current J1 status to Permanent resident-Green Card. I am not sure if that’s the right way to explain it. But I have been waiting for way too long now, causing me to be checking the website numerous times during the day and even nights. Lol

Yes! I just noticed that my table with information is missing. I am nervous to find out why this happened. I have been patiently waiting to see an update over 11 weeks now. Please let me when your table comes back and if any changes.

I am experiencing the same with my case today. If I am not mistaken, somewhere in this long discussion chain I saw that last year some people had the same problem and it was system issue which was resolved very soon and it did not have any negative effect on the case. I thing that the same is happening now and we will have soon our information back.

Hello guys! I received my FR today. Hopefully things will move faster now. Best luck for all those waiting for their FR.
 

Hey guys,
 
You might have seen me posting and complaining here before. My case took a really really LOOOOONG time. Finally today it was approved. I wanted to share my timeline here, because I've received lots of informations and supports from many of you here, even though we've never met anyone in person. I wish you all good luck and stay calm and healthy during these covid-19 times.
 

 
For the USCIS part:
1/15/2020, USCIS issued the I-797 notice of my case;
1/24/2020, "Name Was Updated" (I'm not sure what this mean. My case didn't move forward for a long time from here);
3/27/2020, "Case Was Approved".
 
I'm still waiting for the physical mail notice. 
 
It seems that most people's cases get approved within 2 weeks once it gets to the USCIS. Some other cases have taken slight longer. But for mine, it was more than 10 weeks. I really don't understand why it took so long. During this time, I've called the USCIS and they couldn't give me any useful info. If you've been waiting for your case for a long time, be patient, it'll come. Good luck to everyone. 

I sent all docs on Jan 10. DoS took 1months to update. Embassy sent NOC on Jan 17 and DoS took 1.5 months to update 

Today my case was approved by USCIS. Here is the timeline:
 
USCIS received my case from DoS on March, 18 2020
I received an I-797c notice from USCIS on March, 20 2020 (receipt)
Case was approved by USCIS on their website on March, 26 2020
Waiting to receive the notice via mail...
 

Hi Guys, I am also seeing the notification for the FR. Docs received date Jan 22 and status showing yesterday date March 23rd- FR.

Hi guys,
I am happy to share my waiver timeline. All my documents were received on Jan 22nd and I just learned that the DOS sent my FR on March 23rd. Hope this info is helpful. I actually emailed on Friday (March 20) to the DOS to inquire about my status where I also mentioned that I have a job offer. I am not sure if that helped though. Also does anyone have any idea how long USCIS is taking process the final step? Can anybody share their USCIS timelines?
Thanks..

In the email response to my query about status update, waiver department said that they are still processing cases. They didn't indicate any change in processing time...hopefully its true and not just the case of copy pasting the standard draft email!