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13 hours ago, BigDN said:

Hey there, I just saw that you got your final approval from USCIS.

Can you please walk me through the process?I just got a FR from DOS today.

What happens next?Anything I need to do?

Thanks.

You do not need to do anything. DOS  send your FR to uscis and file a Form 612 on your behalf.  You will get a receipt notice from USCIS  for the filing. you can follow the USCIS status with that receipt number. This whole process(from FR to get the hard copy of the final approval from USCIS)  was one month for me.

6 minutes ago, RD07 said:

Did you get your final approval from USCIS yet? Thanks!

Yes, i got the hard copy on  4th June

2 minutes ago, Nancy29 said:

Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, was your process recent? 

Yes, My FR was sent on 3rd May and I am waiting for the final waiver from USCIS.

12 minutes ago, Ola87 said:

Dear All, 

 

I wrote DoS, and I was told they couldn’t find my application which was sent by my lawyer. So I was asked to send my package. I am a bit confused at this moment - my lawyer made 2 errors in my statement of reason. 
 

1. Do you think I should write another statement of reason as an additional document, and attach it to my email to DoS. I felt the lawyer cut out a lot of my selling points. 
2. Must I copy the lawyer in my response to DoS, as I didn’t tell him I wrote DoS until I got a response from them.
 

Please, help

This is the same response I got  when I contacted them for the same reason., and sent them the details of my payment and scanned application as instructed. The next day DOS site got updated with document receipt, but I think  this was a coincidence as they normally take at least a week to process a email. This was confirmed as this Monday I received my FR in the  self addressed envelope included in my original package. BTW I did not have a lawyer.

PS

I wrote this above to point out that your package maybe still be found  and if there is no absolute need  to  change your Statement of reason  not to do that and stick to the original.

13 hours ago, Nancy29 said:

Hello Everyone, I need some help

I have a j1 visa and applied for my waiver 3 months ago. Last Friday, May 14th, the website updated that they received my DS-3035 form. I filled this online form three moths ago, I actually think that I saw it on the list of received documents before. Why is it now showing up. Why would it take three months for the DoS to receive an online form when they got all the rest of the paperwork I had to mail months ago. Even the letter of no objection all the way from my country. Does this mean that the countdown for them to review will start from May 14? I know it can take several moths after they received all documents. I know several other people that applied for waivers and The online form ds-3035 was one of the first things that the department of state marked as received. The company that is looking to sponsor me was also not happy about this because it looks like I just filled in the form. Is this a normal thing to happen? Would this delay process for too long? I barely have two months now. 

Any info woulod be great

Thanks!

They generally update all the documents except the NOS at a same date(this should be the case as these are all part of single package), but I remember seen similar situation or two like yours in this forum. Yes it take 2-3 months to get the DOS site update from the delivery date to the Lockbox. 

Processing time is greatly varied after this stage( to be on positive note it took mine only 2 weeks), and it would do no harm sending an email with kindly mentioning the  details of your filing date and the dead line of yours.

8 minutes ago, Hardship waiver said:

 

Congratulations! It has been 24 weeks now at DoS and no sponsor review requested. Does the 24 weeks window include receiving sponsor review or does it take them 24 weeks to then ask for sponsor review?  

No, they did not requested sponsor reviews, most of the delays in my case (my guess) was from the Lock box delivery  to DOS status update(from first week of Jan to March 16th). My NOS was delivered mid Feb but I had to make my embassy email that again. Finally they sent a reply to one of my emails and told me that they located my NOS and updated the status 2 days after. After that, FR took very short time compare to the other's posted here(see my timeline screen shot).

In my case emailing the DOS helped me a lot , almost all of them were replied by an officer. However I sent those emails giving a reasonable time in between( I know this is a very difficult task given the time sensitive nature most of us are in), this is a waiting game.

Now I am waiting for the NOA from USCIS.

Hope this helps.

Good luck to you all.

1 hour ago, Pizookie said:

That's great news! Congrats
How long did you wait before emailing DOS to ask for updates? It's been 7 weeks since I mailed my DS-3035 but still nothing is shown online.

I think it was 8 weeks( it is in the DOS site I think). For the first email they said due to covid situ it is usually takes 12-16 weeks to update the case status and wait. Then I sent a second email at the conclusion of 12th week, for that they asked me to email my whole application package. My case appeared on line just after the following day, but I think it was a coincidence as it usually take 5-10 days for a email to get a personnel attention.

Thank you for the Admins and the contributors of this forum. It was a great help  for me to guide myself through this process. Finally, after four months, I got a 'favorable recommendation'. Here is my time line,

-I sent the package on Dec 31 2020, the check was cashed about one week after.

-My embassy sent the NOS on Feb 23 and delivered on 24th.

In both of above situations I had to  email and asked for the updates as my case was not appearing on line. In each occasion, after one week of the automatic reply  a visa specialist replied and told me to email the whole package, and in the case of NOS to ask the embassy to email it(they gave specific emails).