Hello
My husband was granted the waiver mentioned 6 months ago for his B1 visa and has being travelling in and out of the US since for work. He has now applied for his L1, when we went for the interview at the consulate we were told the visa is on hold for administrative processing obviously due to the waiver. I was told today that each new visa needs a new waiver, the last one took 9 months so my question is, has anyone had experience of re applying for a waiver and if so how long did it take as the embassy worker indicated he didn’t think it would take as long the second time round. I’m assuming because he has had one granted before and they already hold all the information needed for it? Thanks in advance for any helpful advice 😊

Thanks Materialcontroller for taking the time to respond. Having been through it already I am aware it “takes as long as it takes” but my question was actually aimed more at anyone who may of already been in the same situation where they had to reapply for a waiver when one had already been granted. I was curious to see if this process may be quicker due to the fact the embassy already have all the information as when we applied before most of the time taken was gathering information requested and submitting it.

Ok so you have experience of this then, you didn’t mention that before. That’s good to know then thanks as we won’t make any plans if it’s likely to take that long again!

Materialcontroller, How long did each one take? Just curious?

Hi Boiler, thanks for the feedback. I did a search but couldn’t find much but I’m new to this forum so pretty useless tbh! That’s good news if it could be less than 6 months as it was a very long process last time but there was so much going backwards and forwards with information and then waiting for the review. I just thought as the case was already built and the waiver approved before it would maybe take less time, it was also not long ago that it was issued originally so there has not been much change other than the job position!