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My friend who was on J2 had to leave the US for two years despite having his EB2-NIW i140 approved. You cannot escape the 2 year home country requirement. You c
by yandie 6y ago
My friend who was on J2 had to leave the US for two years despite having his EB2-NIW i140 approved. You cannot escape the 2 year home country requirement. You can apply for i140 but you can't get the green card/immigrant visa until you satisfy it.
- d1zzy 6y agoI was able to get a waiver to the 2 years home residency requirement. Since my position wasn't sponsored by my home country I went with the "NO OBJECTION" route. The US part of it went very smooth, it was my home country part that required to demonstrate, to my home country government, that they hadn't payed me to come to the US (lol). But other than that the process was easy and worked fine.
- yandie 6y agoYeah I should add the waiver footnote around J2 requirement. This depends on countries - my friend's one is very strict so he couldn't do anything.
- thrwwyrbrts010 6y agoMy spouse's and my country of citizenship are not the same - I wonder if I (as J-2 dependent) require a letter of no objection from my country of citizenship, or if it would have to be from the country of citizenship of the J-1 holder.