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Welcome to The Ranchod Law Group immigration show. After researching Visa Bulletin dates, we managed to put together this video for all 4 categories. Employment based categories have also been included in this video for the Visa Bulletin February 2023

USCIS, in coordination with Department of State (State), is revising the procedures for determining visa availability for applicants waiting to file for employment-based or family-sponsored preference adjustment of status. The revised process will better align with procedures State uses for foreign nationals who seek to become U.S. permanent residents by applying for immigrant visas at U.S. consulates and embassies abroad.


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Welcome to The Ranchod Law Group immigration show. Today we are talking about how to overcome grief and what steps you can take to feel better over time.

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J-1 Visa Waivers

J-1 visa holders, and their dependents, who’re subject to INA §212(e) are required to return to their home country for two years, or must obtain a “J-1 waiver” before they can change or adjust their status. If you do not want to return home for the two-year “home country residence requirement,” you can apply for a waiver of the requirement under any one of following five grounds:

1. request by a designated State Department of Health;
2. Interested Government Agency (IGA)
3. persecution;
4. no objection statement;
5. hardship.

Success Story: 
Client retained our services to file a hardship waiver on his behalf. Client had entered the U.S. from a Latin American country on a J-1 visa subject to the two year home residency requirement and while in the U.S. he met and married a U.S. Citizen. The couple is currently expecting their first child. The couple’s child is due two weeks after he would have had to depart from the U.S. We argued on client’s behalf various aspects of hardship including emotional hardship to his wife (pregnant and possibly being left alone in the U.S.), also wife was financially dependent on client (wife worked but client was main breadwinner) and her health insurance was through client’s employer, finally client’s wife could not accompany client to his home country, among other reasons, because she didn’t speak the language and wouldn’t be able to continue her career abroad. We really detailed every aspect of the client’s case to make the strongest possible case for our client. Client was absolutely delighted when his case was approved in less than two months! Now Client and his wife can look forward to the birth of their first child without having to worry about client’s immigration status.

Hardship

J-1 visa holders who can demonstrate that their departure for two years would cause “exceptional hardship” to their United States citizen or lawful permanent resident spouse or child (“qualifying relatives”) may obtain a waiver of the two-year foreign residence requirement.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the J1 Hardship Waiver
The benefits of the hardship waiver are that, if approved, the applicant can immediately apply for permanent residence or change of status rather than spending three (or five) years in H-1B status as may be required under the IGA wavier process. A physician would also not be limited to employment in underserved areas, but can take a position anywhere.

The disadvantages are that the outcome of the application, and the time to process it, is difficult to predict.

The hardship to the qualifying relatives in the event they were to go with the applicant to the home country, or in the event they were to remain in the United States, should be considered equally.
Requirements for a J1 Hardship Waiver
Typical hardships include medical hardship, psychological hardship, political and social conditions in the home country, and economic and career disruption which would impact the qualifying relative(s). Length of marriage, number of children, original nationality of the qualifying relative, and any past separation between the applicant and the qualifying relatives are also taken into consideration.

Mere separation and the attendant sadness that this involves is not enough to outweigh the public policy objectives of the J1 program.

Because the hardship waiver is not easy to obtain and is highly fact based and subject to discretionary considerations by adjudicating officers, waivers should not be submitted without careful preparation. An experienced immigration attorney can help you determine whether your waiver has a reasonable possibility of success.


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J1 Waiver Approval. We used three types of creative hardships to get a J1 Waiver approved for a client from Yemen that was subjected to the 2 Year Home Residency Requirement that prevented him from applying for a Green Card. The wife of our J1 Waiver client was a practicing Christian and she would suffer persecution in Yemen. We used hardship arguments that have also worked with some of our previous J1 Waiver clients. Our client and his U.S. Citizen wife were able to continue living in the U.S. thanks to the creative legal argument we prepared.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:13 Waiver Options
1:13 Process
1:49 Processing Times
2:08 How we got this case approved?
3:31 Criteria to Evaluate


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Welcome to The Ranchod Law Group immigration show.

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