Applying for waiver--confused

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Pramath

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I am from India, and was in the US from 1999-2001
on a J1 with a 212(e) requirement. We have been living
in Canada since July 2001. I decided recently to clear
the 212(e) requirement (to improve my catchment
area for jobs). I have two of the required three NORIs
and should be getting my third one soon from my regional
passport office. My confusion regards the process of
applying for the waiver. I went to the state department
website and filled out their on-line form and saved and
printed the resulting forms, bar codes etc. This was
Tuesday night. But Wednesday morning I discovered
mistakes (I had typed dates incorrectly, and had missed
details on one IAP-66). I retyped yesterday, correcting
things, using the case code I had obtained the day before.
It suddenly occurs to me that this might create problems.
Does it? Afterall the process is not complete until I mail
out the printed forms (and have the Indian embassy mail
the no obligation letter to the State department).

And can one mail the DS-3035 to the Department of State
before getting the no obligations from the embassy?
 
I have another question. I was on a J1 from 1984 to 1991, and then
returned home to India (was there till 1999). So clearly I have cleared
the home country requirement *for that J1 stint*. I later came on a
J1 in 1999 (and stayed till 2001). I then moved to Canada. While applying
for a waiver, am I supposed to give details about the first stint (I have
no paper work left on that)?
 
If the program allowed you to generate another packet - it should be fine. DoS does not receive any info you type in until you mail the packet.

I do not know if you need to include any info about your previous J1 - just read the instructions on the form, my guess is that they are only interested in your latest J1.
 
I am in the same boat. I included the previous J1 documents while applying waiver for the latest J1.

Good luck!

FZ
 
Well I don't have the previous ones.

On a different note---what is the size of the self addressed
envelope that we are supposed to send to St Louis? I now live
in canada, so does anyone know what the costs are for US to
Canada. I will have to find US stamps from somewhere, but I am
sure Toronto will have a place which sells them. But if remember
US to Canada rates are different from US to US rates.
 
AkaMuzik ,
Thanks for posting your experience. I agree, when applying for the waiver one needs to research the program goals and make an argument why staying in the US is a better way for fulfilling the goals.

My program goals were promoting intercultural exchange and understanding, or something like that, I made an argument that I am in a better position to do so if I remain in the US, since Fulbright sponsored my MA, but I continued with my PhD and as a result I have done research, teaching, conferences etc that compliment original Fulbright goals. I received my waiver. Sorry to hear you did not receive your waiver, but maybe other people will benefit from your advice. So many people do not post their experience whether it was positive or negative, so the whole waiver process for people with government funding becomes a mystery.
 
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