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L1 B ( blanket or individual )
I have have following queries on l1 b visa

* Does not marrying and being single affect your process. Is it taken in a sense
that the individual has less intent and motivation to return back to home country ?

* Why is L1b blanket rejected more than l1b individual ? What are the top factors to be considered for L1b blanket ?

* How doest one make a bullet proof documentation? What are the key factors !
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L1A Individual(Approved)
This forum was very helpful. Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and suggestions

I am working for a product company.
Filed L1 A individual. After RFE, petition got approved in December 1st.

Interview Date: 28-Jan
Questions:
How long you are working in this company
Indian Salary
US Salary
How many Direct Reports
Avg experience of the Sr.most direct reports

(To my Wife:) Mam Which city and state your husband will be working

(To me:) What is your roles and responsibilities

(To my son): Which grade are you sir?

She kept on typing for few secs and finally said 'You visa is approved sir"

Thanks again
Good luck
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Any Idea on Passport Arrival Duration ?
Hi All,

Anyone here attended interview on 31-Jan-20 ? , My Passport status still says its with US embassy did anyone have the same status like me , then please let me know.

Also if anyone has idea about the duration/process please reply me !! it would be greatly appreciated
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L1A visa
My turn to repay back to the forum for all the support

My L1A was approved today in Chennai. The lawyers had done a great job putting together a strong package. Turned out that it was not really necessary.

Standard questions on what's your salary in the new role, how many people reporting and example of some of their titles. We were asked as to how long the role was for and I mentioned it is 3 years for now. It was the honest response. Immigration officer was polite and respectful. Both mine and my wife's (L2) were approved.

I have lived for a long time in the past and allowed my green card to expire. No conversation on that at all.

Good luck to others in this phase.
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L1A Approved | Chennai
At the onset I would like to thank immihelp and the members of this forum.
The detailed experiences recorded here really helped me to prepare my answers well.

Interview Date: 03rd Feb 2020 at Chennai.

- To start with, there was a huge line infront of me. I spend more than 45 minutes just standing in queue. I couldnt resist the urge to hear what is happening at the different windows. I could constantly hear 'you visa is approved', 'your visa is rejected'. My advise would be to not get influenced and stick to what you have prepared

- my interview lasted for about 5 minutes

VO: Good Morning. How are you doing?
Me: Great! How bout you?

VO: I am doing just fine. Where are you traveling?
ME: told the US city where my I am supposed to travel?

VO: Which visa are you applying for?
ME: L1A Blanket

VO: Whats your highest level of education?
ME: Answered

VO: What will you be doing in the US? How what a typical day look like?
ME: Answered in about 5-6 lines which I had carefully prepared.
** Remember to prepare this really well. Focus on every word that you say. Discuss this with the leaders in your organization and people who have made it through. User keywords that are relevant to your profile. These 5-6 lines should be polished as much as possible**

VO: Will you be traveling alone?
ME: Yes

VO: How many people report to you?
ME: Answered

VO: Do you have hiring and firing rights?
ME: Answered

VO: Okay. Your visa is approved.
She stamped all the three copies, gave me 2 along with a green slip.

Pheww.

Suggestions:
1) prepare your story really well.
2) its a normal conversation. We tend to make it larger than life but its not.
3) dont try to over please the VO by constantly smiling. It shouldnt look like you are dying to get to the US. Remember, your company has chosen you to go there to do a job. If not US, it could be any other country.
4) Dress nicely, groom yourself and be confident in your body language and your answers

All the very best to everyone who is appearing for any visa interview
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L1b blanket - Business development and Sales role
Hi
Did anyone attend L1b interview as Sales/BD role. If yes, please share your experience on questions like Specilization etc.

Thank you
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L1B rejected Chennai
L1B rejected and hope my experience can help others. And I could see most of the experiences provided here are for approved visa. Requesting to post even if it is rejected, so that others can learn what mistakes they shouldn't do when they attend interview.

My whole interview has gone not more than 4 to 5mins and below is the conversation

VO: How is it going?
Me: Going good, thanks. How about you?
VO: Good. Passport please?
Me: Gave passport and 3 sets of I129s and other docs
VO: (He verified passport) Is it L1B?
Me: Yes, L1 blanket
VO: L1 Blanket?
Me: Yes
VO: You are from ###? (My company name)
Me: Yes
VO: who will be your client?
Me: Its *** insurance
VO: So, what are you working?
Me: I'm working as *** specialist. Developed various tools in *** area and recently developed a tool called "xyz"
(I have well prepared for this question - what is your speciliazation? Or what is ur profile? Etc)
VO: How it was built?
Me: it was developed using yyy framework blah blah (just 2 lines answer and again this was well prepared answer - with what framework ur tool was developed?)
(VO: He was typing something and gave some 20 seconds break)
VO:Is it *** (my client name?)
Me: Yes
VO: Insurance?
Me: Yes
(VO: Again he was keep on typing something and gave a smile to me)
VO: How long with ###? (my company)
Me: Replied
VO: How long with ***? (my client)
Me: Replied
VO: After 5 seconds, someone reports to you?
Me: No
VO: After typing something again for 10 seconds he said, sorry sir your visa is not completely approvable
Me: I was shocked, and tried to explain him that my tool has expansion for other clients as well but he interrupted saying you are with same client for long time and you should be doing monotonous work. As per our rules you should not be going for L1B, please ask your petitioner to do H1B instead.

I said, thanks returned back

Mistakes I did as per my knowledge
When he asked "VO:Is it *** (my client name?)" I replied as "yes" thinking he was asking my client name. But after rejection I realized he might be asking for whom this tool was built (again this is my thought, but not exactly sure in what context he asked that tricky question) and my answer should be "No" with an extension saying "built for *** client, and has potential expansion for other clients as well" (this answer is in my perspective)

I said same after he said it was not approvable, but the reason he gave was "I was with same client for long time". If my answer for "VO: How long with ***? (my client)" is less duration than what I gave, then also he might have rejected saying "I was with this client for less duration, so can't approve"

So finally here are my suggestions.
1. Prepare well with your story line on the tool or specialization
2. Have multiple rounds of review and mock interviews with your colleagues
3. Be in the context of what VO is asking, don't try to answer for what you have prepared
4. I have prepared for some other questions like, why I should travel, purpose etc but he didn't ask them. I would suggest to have your answers crisp & clean and try to inject the answers for others questions which you prepared even though he don't ask them. Because for my case I have prepared strong justification for this question but didn't provide those details to him as that question itself was not asked.
5. Finally, prepare your answers to make sure to end your answer in such a way that VO should ask question from where you stopped and that would be easy for you.

All the best!
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Duration for passport delivery
Could anybody share their recent experience on how much time passport delivery is taking from Chennai consulate to Bengaluru VAC.
Thanks in advance.
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L1B
Attending a Visa interview along with wife and Kids. Would it increase the chances of a VO to be convinced and approve it. My thought would be marginally YES.
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L1A Ind Extn w/ Approved I-140
Hi All,

Could you please help me to take a decision whether to file my L1A Individual extension in Premium or in Normal processing timeline? I-129,I-539 & I765 will be filled all together.My I-140 is approved.

My current L1A individual visa is expiring in Apr. This will be my 1st Extension with approved I-140. My spouse is planning to continue in her current job if possible & this is my only reason to think whether to file it in Premium. I under USCIS not processing L2 & L2 EAD processing in premium as a courtesy but heard it will be faster.

Please let me know if anyone of you have any suggestion what best to do on this case..

Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Akn
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