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48 minutes ago, HardshipWaiverApr said:

For those that don’t have government funding why did you go the hardship road? 
 

I had the “wrong” impression that the majority of hardship cases had government funding involved.

To answer your question, I guess, one common reason that people go this route is, for cases when they can not obtain a no objection, while they do have a strong hardship case.

What really bufles me, though, is that even after the USCIS finds an exceptional hardship and forwards the I-612/613s to the DOS, the sponsors may still reject. I though that USCIS's finding should be sufficient.

12 hours ago, DrIdaddoq said:

Someone mentioned the sponsor views. Take a look at this 

Thank you. Just to ease my worrying a little bit, do you happen to know of any case where there is a Sponsor Views involved, but it has a favorable recommendation  

7 hours ago, DrIdaddoq said:

I wish they publish real processing times. Like what's the average time for those 262 hardship cases from 2021?

Yeah. I doubt they will ever do it, because it will be well outside of their estimated processing times.

I just was always under an impression that once the USCIS forwards the I-612/613, that meant that they did find an extreme hardship, so I dont understand how there still can be 7 Unfavorables.

I wonder if the 7 people that got an unfavorable were governmental fundings and the sponsors rejected them  

@Pillowchis @DrIdaddoq

Did either of you receive governmental funding (Fulbright) ? Surprised to see that they have not asked for sponsor's view yet given how long you two waited already.

Hi @cyr20

I am in the same boat. Was yours updated eventually ?

Hey all,

I was a J1 visa holder, subject to 2 year home residency requirement. I am in a process of applying for J1 waiver based on an exceptional hardship to my USC wife. I submitted I-612 to USCIS and in parallel submitted the DS-3035 to DOS. When I completed the DOS portion it generated a barcode that I, apparently, was supposed to include with my I-612 documents and send to USCIS. USCIS, however had no mention of that barcode anywhere and has accepted my application successfully.

I am worried that without this barcode the USCIS wont be able to forward the I-613 to the DOS once they make their decision.

Does anyone know what the process is for the USCIS to share it's decision to DOS. Has anyone had a situation like this?

Thank you