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L-1A Blanket Rejected@Chennai - 13th March 2013
I firstly wish to thank all the individuals who posted their experiences in this forum.
On the day of the interview, I was asked to pay the DD for Rs. 28,500 to a cashier at one counter and then was directed to another counter where there was no queue. The Indian guy sitting at the counter was short and stout and his job was to assemble the papers required for the interview.
My company had arranged three copies of the required documents with binder clips. Each copy had the I129S, I-797, BEP letter and org charts organized neatly for easy reference. The form I-797 blanket petition supplement had 33 pages as my company is one of the Fortune 500 firms with a presence over 100 countries.
This guy first asked me when I had gone to the OFC. I felt it was unnecessary as the DS-160 form I had submitted clearly mentioned that date but I still answered politely. He then took off all the binder clips from the bundle I had submitted and shuffled the papers haphazardly. He tore just the front page of I-797 petition along with the I-129S from the first set and stapled them with the DS-160. He then pushed the rest of the papers which were messed up expecting me to clear up his mess. He incoherently muttered about providing two more copies of my petition and then called over the person who was standing behind me. Before I could ask him what he wanted, he rudely waved his hand asking me to stand aside while he called over the next guy. Apart from this guy, there was no one in the queue for this counter.
I took the I-797 petition from the remaining two copies and waited patiently till this person was done with the guy standing at the window of the counter. I felt the VFS guy should have completed processing my documents before he called over the next guy. However, I still controlled my patience. After the guy behind me left the counter, I handed over the remaining two copies of my I-797 back to him. The VFS guy said I was wasting his time and asked for the I129. I had to look for these from the mess he had handed me a few minutes ago. His behaviour pissed me off and I wanted to give him my piece of my mind. However, with the interview still to go, I decided not to create a scene and left the counter. I also felt like giving this loser a tight slap.
First of all, this piece of cr$p sitting on the other side was not doing his job properly, expecting me to do his job and on top of that, taunting me for not doing HIS job properly. If he wanted just the first page of I-797 along with I129S from all three copies, he should have either mentioned that clearly or done it himself.
With this bitter experience, I left for the adjacent building and waited for my turn. The American visa officer was interviewing candidates in front of me in Tamil (yes, Tamil with an American accent and he was very fluent in it!)
My turn came and the questions asked were as follows.
(1) Which visa have you applied for?
(2) Which company do you work for? Who has filed this petition?
(3) What is your designation?
(4) Who do you report to?
(5) How many people do you manage (both direct and indirect)?
After that, he said my petition was not clearly approvable and that the L-1A visa was for only senior managers and executives. He also said that there were other ways I could go to the US and asked me to inform my company that it should file my petition in a different visa category.
I thanked him and left.
My background:
MBA degree from a reputed business school based in the US + 8 years of work experience of which 2 were in India.
The officer neither looked at the org chart nor the petition letter explaining my role in the US.
Good luck to all who will be appearing for this visa interview.
On the day of the interview, I was asked to pay the DD for Rs. 28,500 to a cashier at one counter and then was directed to another counter where there was no queue. The Indian guy sitting at the counter was short and stout and his job was to assemble the papers required for the interview.
My company had arranged three copies of the required documents with binder clips. Each copy had the I129S, I-797, BEP letter and org charts organized neatly for easy reference. The form I-797 blanket petition supplement had 33 pages as my company is one of the Fortune 500 firms with a presence over 100 countries.
This guy first asked me when I had gone to the OFC. I felt it was unnecessary as the DS-160 form I had submitted clearly mentioned that date but I still answered politely. He then took off all the binder clips from the bundle I had submitted and shuffled the papers haphazardly. He tore just the front page of I-797 petition along with the I-129S from the first set and stapled them with the DS-160. He then pushed the rest of the papers which were messed up expecting me to clear up his mess. He incoherently muttered about providing two more copies of my petition and then called over the person who was standing behind me. Before I could ask him what he wanted, he rudely waved his hand asking me to stand aside while he called over the next guy. Apart from this guy, there was no one in the queue for this counter.
I took the I-797 petition from the remaining two copies and waited patiently till this person was done with the guy standing at the window of the counter. I felt the VFS guy should have completed processing my documents before he called over the next guy. However, I still controlled my patience. After the guy behind me left the counter, I handed over the remaining two copies of my I-797 back to him. The VFS guy said I was wasting his time and asked for the I129. I had to look for these from the mess he had handed me a few minutes ago. His behaviour pissed me off and I wanted to give him my piece of my mind. However, with the interview still to go, I decided not to create a scene and left the counter. I also felt like giving this loser a tight slap.
First of all, this piece of cr$p sitting on the other side was not doing his job properly, expecting me to do his job and on top of that, taunting me for not doing HIS job properly. If he wanted just the first page of I-797 along with I129S from all three copies, he should have either mentioned that clearly or done it himself.
With this bitter experience, I left for the adjacent building and waited for my turn. The American visa officer was interviewing candidates in front of me in Tamil (yes, Tamil with an American accent and he was very fluent in it!)
My turn came and the questions asked were as follows.
(1) Which visa have you applied for?
(2) Which company do you work for? Who has filed this petition?
(3) What is your designation?
(4) Who do you report to?
(5) How many people do you manage (both direct and indirect)?
After that, he said my petition was not clearly approvable and that the L-1A visa was for only senior managers and executives. He also said that there were other ways I could go to the US and asked me to inform my company that it should file my petition in a different visa category.
I thanked him and left.
My background:
MBA degree from a reputed business school based in the US + 8 years of work experience of which 2 were in India.
The officer neither looked at the org chart nor the petition letter explaining my role in the US.
Good luck to all who will be appearing for this visa interview.
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