Our office recently received a notice of approval of Form I-192, Application for Advance Permission to Enter as a Nonimmigrant, for one of our clients. The waiver application was adjudicated by the CBP Admissibility Review Office (ARO) in only four (4) months and was granted with a validity period of five (5) years.
This waiver approval was in response to an I-192 renewal application, as our client had previously been granted two (2) I-192 waivers.
Although each application is different, this four (4) month processing time has been common so far this year with cases involving Canadian citizens filing an I-192 waiver renewal application. As recent as last year (2008), such renewals were previously taking about six (6) months to process.