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L1B Blanket Visa approved at chennai
Hi all,
   My L1B Blanket visa got approved at chennai and the information at the immihelp site helped a lot. Following is what i prepared and my experience during the visa interview:

Preparation:

1) I read all the rejection cases of L1B on this site . Some of the experiences were very scary since people mentioned that it depends on the mood of the interviewer, but i didnt find it to be so during the actuall interview.

2) I took the list of all questions they can ask from this site and made sure i had convincing answers for each question. I actually created a word document of the exact answer i would give for each question in the exact narrative style. Most questions have objective one line answers and thus are simple. The important questions that requires subject explanations are:
            i) your current role and what specialized knowledge u have.
            ii) your future roles and responsibilties in USA .
            iii) why is this knowledge specialed
            iv) why cant the USA team member do this
            iv) why cant you do it from india
            v) Why you and not any other team member in India
   
I wrote down convincing answers for all these and rehearsed them in front of the mirror. The actual rehearsing took only 1-2 hours once the answers content matter was ready.

The Experience:

  The OFC started with a bit of bad note since some information was missing on my DS160 confirmation and he sent me back to get it edited from a cyber cafe. I had to run in the heat of chennai to find a cybercafe to edit it and run back to the OFC center. so reach the OFC a bit early and get your documents verified with the person at the door. Actual OFC was done in less than 15 min.

 The Visa interview i reached the gate 30 min ealry. The queue was luckicly small since it was an afternoon slot. The document assmebling etc was done quickly by the person. He asked me why I edited the DS160 (since the confirmation numbers differed for the frist and second DS160). I told him what was missing in the first. He assembled the documents and took my OFC again at the consulate and then I went for the actuall visa interview. I greeted the Visa officer with a pleasant smile (all these tips of being confident and pleasant and polite are mentioned at this immihelp site so i wot repeat them. In general be a good human being and let it reflect in your demeanor at the consulate.) He started with normal questions about what my company does, what salary i would be getting etc. The he came to the specific of the specialized knowledge and asked to explain everything in detail. I explained him in simple terms of what i did. He probed a lot about why it was special, how it differered from our competitors , what programming language i used, who are the customers. Finally he granted the Visa and gave me two documents to carry back and kept my passport. The important thing was being confident with your answers and not throwing in too many technical terms since they anyway wont know all of it. Infact explaing it in layman terms seemed to impress him. The mirror rehearsing helped a lot since I didnt fumble for words during the interview. I am happy that unlike some of the success cases listed here, i got the visa after lot of probing.

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