Hello everyone! First of all some general info. My name is Nate. My wife's name is Huiying. We met in October of last year and fell in love. We were married in March and Huiying moved in with me. I have two children to another woman however, I have full legal and physical custody. We all live together and are very happy. Huiying came here on a J-1 visa in January of 2012. We were under the impression that she was not subject to a 2 year home residency requirement until a couple weeks ago. (Her DS-2019 said "not subject" but her Visa said "Subject") We filed an advisory opinion and it came back (after over a 10 week wait) that she is subject. She only has one month left here according to her DS-2019 and then an additional 30 days grace period. We are unsure what to do now. I know we need to obtain a J-1 waiver but, I have recieved so much different feed back. I would say I've spoken with about 9 different lawyers over the past few months. I've done a lot of research on my own as well. I read that a requirement for a "No objection waiver" is that she has 6 months remaining on her visa. So, one lawyer said "She just has to go home." Another lawyer said that we should file an exceptional hardship waiver. The estimated cost for her services and processing fees was $4,800. Another lawyer said that we should just file a "No objection waiver" anyway and see what happens. Either way Huiying will be overstaying her J1 Visa. I plan on calling the Chinese Embassy tommorrow and see if they can provide me with any direction. This entire Visa issue has caused so much stress between our othewise extremely happy family. I've lost so much faith in my government and lawyers for that matter. Can anyone provide us with anything that could help us in our journey? Thank you all so much. It is good to know there are others out there who have gone through similiar situations and prevailed.