Our client, a Fulbright scholar from Norway, faced a significant challenge due to the two-year home country requirement under 212(E). While in the U.S., he met and married his wife, who suffers from anxiety and minor depression. She is employed and attending university in the U.S. If he had to return to Norway to fulfill … Read more
Newly Proposed Filing Procedures Will Allow Spouses and Children of US Citizens to File Their I-601 Waiver in the United States What is an I-601 Hardship Waiver? Certain classes of foreign nationals are not eligible to immigrate to the United States because of previous immigration violations, the commission of serious aggravated felonies, drug or alcohol … Read more
The vast majority of foreign physicians who come to the United States for graduate medical training are going to be subject to INA Section 212(E) if they obtained such training with a J1 visa. J1 visa holders subject to INA Section 212(E) are required to return to their home country for a period of two … Read more