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Thanks 8老師 for your help.

Now my wife is in US and we already mentioned that my wife fulfilled the 2-year requirement in the 485 filing, Can I still file J-2 waiver independently?

 

-Have your wife filed her I-485 to USCIS yet? If no, she may not file it until get the J1 waiver. If yes, she still can file J-1 waiver because J-1 waiver is irrelevant to the I-485 filing two different things). You can file J-2 waiver independently, but J-2 waiver is somewhat complicate because the Chinese Embassy may not issue the document to you as you mentioned here.

There are two possible ways for you to get the J-2 waiver:

1.Apply for Interested Government Agency (IGA) waiver. Sometimes DOS can sponsor a J-2 as IGA for independent waiver. Here is a link for your information:

http://www.hooyou.com/j-1/j1_iga_waiver.html

2. Apply for Advisory Opinion waiver. Here is a link for your ingformation:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/info/info_5502.html

Because application for J-2 waiver through either IGA or Advisory Opinion is somewhat complicate, you had better find an experienced lawyer to help you.

 If yes, how can I file J-2 waiver because Chinese embassy only issue J-1 waiver (I think), do I still need to follow the following steps: 1) DOS to get case number, 2)中國領館教育處, 3) 聯係國內原單位, 4) 材料寄教育處, 5)中方出具 NOS, 6)美方 DOS 批準.