J1Hardship2020

8 minutes ago, J1Hardship2020 said:

 

Thanks for the response! We saw the DOS received our 612/613 on June 17th, 2020 so that is encouraging that your got your favorable recommendation in 2 months!!?

Are you now applying for the I-130, I-485, & I-765? If so how is that going?

Thanks!

21 minutes ago, dsahay said:

@J1Hardship2020 sorry for the late response.

Yes, I applied in June 2019. My I612 and I613 was sent from USCIS to DoS on December 10, 2019. DoS received it in January 6th 2020. DoS sent favorable recommendations on February 27th, 2020 and March 30th, 2020 I received the approval notice from USCIS. 

In the present scenario the cases are taking 18-20 months for approval, but as long as you have a strong case and you  ask a congressman to contact USCIS and DOS and put in a expedite request, you might get a faster approval. In my experience and from what I know from some of my colleagues, if the case is genuine and strong, expedite requests are accepted and USCIS and DoS does process the paper work faster.

All the best !

 

On 6/18/2020 at 12:34 PM, J1Hardship2020 said:

Have you heard anything back on a recommendation? 

Any luck getting the recommendation?

Thanks,

On 6/16/2020 at 11:06 PM, j1hardshipwaiting said:

@dsahay did you hear anything about your waiver from DOS? For us, Fulbright/hardship case, DOS received I-613/I-612 from USCIS in April 2020 and we don't know how long it will take for them to make a recommendation.

Is the sponsor views definitely updated on the status? Because it looks like they haven't even asked for it yet (see our timeline below)

 

Have you heard anything back on a recommendation? 

On 6/17/2020 at 9:52 AM, J1hardship said:

Hello Everyone, 

 

- I applied for a J1 hardship waiver based on exceptional hardship to my US citizen child on May 16th, 2019. 
-USCIS updated the case status tool as it has sent my application for Non-USCIS advisory opinion on April 16th, 2019.

-Since then no update on DOS website as my i612/613 has been received 

-my service requests has been answered by California Service center as they were waiting for the response from the DOS waiver review division.

- I contacted the congressman recently, answered as

 “ the transferring of I-612 waiver recommendation requests to the Department of State (DOS) J-1 Waiver Division has not yet been forwarded for review yet. Per the supervisor, the current work at home mandate and limited number of clerical staff at the CSC has caused a delay in the processing of I-612 waiver recommendation requests. “ recommended a follow-up with them in 45 days to check on the status of the case.

- my j1 status expiry on June 30,2020. After then no salary no healthcare coverage. Applied for a j1 extension to take the boards. But will be in a situation of extreme financial hardship. 
 

I feel so helpless and frustrated. Any suggestions? 

 

Thank you

 

I am in the same boat... The USCIS sent to DOS on May 26, 2020 and the email that I sent to 212ewaiver@gov responded today with it will take 4 weeks for the 612/613 to be uploaded onto the DOS system.

I too wrote to my senator but it might have been too premature seeing the DOS is taking so long to upload docs...

Hello,

I too had a pending finding along with all of my received documents and now it says the same thing as yours?

When did this change for you? Also did the DOS send a favorable recommendation back to USCIS?

Thanks!