Business Visa - B1

I had my B1/B2 visa interview on 23rd Feb 2018 and here is how it went.

Mumbai 10 AM slot.

VO: Passport please.
Me: Good Morning. Here they are.

VO: Why do want to go to the States.(While handing over the old passport back to me)
Me: Business Meetings and Customer Trainings(invitation letter is for customer training and hence the same).

VO: Will you be receiving the training?
Me: No. I'll be giving the training.

VO: Training on what?
Me: We have recently created a product XYZ for our clients which I will be Training them on.

VO: How long were you in the UK?
Me: 28 days for the first time and 18 days for the second time.

VO: I am sorry but I cannot approve your Visa today. You can apply again.
Me: Thank you. (Totally baffled and lost)

I am still not sure what went wrong but I suspect that my DS 160 mentioned Business Meetings and while answering I answered Product Training as well which is the basic reason for my rejection. I am a Project Manager and have been to UK(twice) on Business Visa.

Thoughts?

Hi,

My company wants me to reapply(Rejected in last year) for B1 visa. But they wants me to apply from Kolkata while I am staying at noida (near to delhi consulate). So I have some questions in my mind:

If I will apply for Kolkata location then VO can ask me why did you not applied for Delhi location as it was near by to my home and office address. What would be the best answer in this scenario? Please suggest.

Hi,

I have my visa interview on 6-March, where I have the following doubts if someone can help me on:

1. I have mentioned a stay of 4 weeks in US in my DS160 form from 5-March to 2-April, but in between I got sick and had to be admitted in hospital. Now, because my employer pays the visa fees after filing of DS160 (which I filled before my hospitalization), they take a week to process that fees. When they completed the payment, I was already in the hospital. So I could not schedule my VISA interview dates. When I got discharged from the hospital and sat to schedule the appointments, I saw the first available date was 6-March which was falling after the "date of arrival in US" of 5-March as mentioned in the DS160 form. Will this be an issue in the interview? How to best deal with this if asked?

2. I work in a reputed MNC company in India and have 3.5 years of experience as a software engineer. Now, I am a Senior SW Engineer (involved in testing of software) with an annual package of INR 7 Lakhs. I am actually going to receive a training for 4 weeks on a new hardware and software that our team in US have recently finished designing. Is it an issue to say about "training"? If yes, should I mention something else? Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

My total work experience is 3 Years 4 Months.In current company (product based) 1 year completed.I have applied for Business Visa (B1).I got invitation letter for training with entire schedule.But in this forum I have seen most of rejecting cases are for training.Can you please help me the best answers for "Purpose of visiting to US" & "If seniors are there why you are going" and any other critical questions with best answers.

Hi all,

Thanks to all who has shared their experience in this forum. I was following up with this forum two days before and got ready with the different questions , had a mock interview to my self with all the questions. I got 90 % of the questions which I have prepared from this forum. It builds your confidence.

For 0945 Slot, I reached there by 0900 and stood in the line. Its not needed, but better to be there instead of getting tensed.

Me : Good Morning.
VO: Good Morning. Your passport please.

VO: (By going through the pages in Passport. I was having L1B in my previous company and it got expired long back). Are you still in <<Previous Company>>
Me : No. Now I work for <<Current Company>>.

VO: What is the purpose of your travel
Me: Business discussion with Client.

VO: Who is the client
Me: <<Client Name>>

VO:
What is the product you are working on
   We will discuss on challenges and how to. deal it
   Will you be a part of design discussions
    No only about the challenges we have and how to deal on the current version of the product
What is the product you after going to work with?
What is salary per Annum
Married?
Are you going with your family?
Why you want to go there and not other members
How long you have been working in this project
Is the internal meeting or external?
At what level from clients are comingHi all,

Thanks to all who has shared their experience in this forum. I was following up with this forum two days before and got ready with the different questions , had a mock interview to my self with all the questions. I got 90 % of the questions which I have prepared from this forum. It builds your confidence.

For 0945 Slot, I reached there by 0900 and stood in the line. Its not needed, but better to be there instead of getting tensed. I have already been twice to US under L1B visa in the previous organization.

Me : Good Morning.
VO: Good Morning. Your passport please.

VO: (By going through the pages in Passport. I was having L1B in my previous company and it got expired long back). Are you still in <<Previous Company>>
Me : No. Now I work for <<Current Company>>.

VO: What is the purpose of your travel
Me: Business discussion with Client.

VO: Who is the client
Me: <<Client Name>>

VO: What is the product you are working on
Me: Told about the product.

VO : What will be discussed in this meeting
ME : We will discuss on challenges and how to deal it.

VO: Will you be a part of design discussions
ME : No only about the challenges we have and how to deal on the current version of the product

Vo: What is salary per Annum
Me: X per annum

Vo: Married?
ME : Yes

Vo : Are you going with your family?
Me : No. I go alone

Vo : Why you want to go there and not other members
Me : I have been in this product for past 4 and half years. Right from the Day 1 in the <<Current Company>> .

Vo: How long you will be having meeting there.
Me : two weeks.

Vo: How long you have been working in this project
Me : For the past 4 and half years.

Vo : Is the internal meeting or external?
Me : External. We will meet with few people from <<Client>> and discuss about the current challenges and how to improvise on it

Vo: Which city you will be travelling to ?
Me: <<City>>

Vo : how many people are there in your team here?
Me : 10

Vo: What's your designation
Me: <<My Designation>>

Vo: At what level from clients are coming
Me : Director and above.

Vo: What language you use in your product ( Strange , I didn't expect )
Me: <<Language we use>>

Vo : what IDE you use in your product ( Again Strange, I didn't expect)
Me : <<IDE we use>>.

Vo : Visa got approved.
Me : Thank you very much and Have a great day.

Not all the questions are in sequence. Given almost all.

Tips:
1. Look straight to his eyes.
2. Be confident. ( You act confident, You will be in reality)
3. I wore Full formals (Plain white shirt and Clean shaven) and that makes a lot of difference.
4. Go through this forum for two days before the Visa interview.
5. DOn't ever say that you are in requirement, or design or implementation or Training . Have the answer around business like business discussion / challenges / improve like that.

Other Questions I prepared from this Forum:
What will be the port of entry ?
what is the meeting date ?
When is the start and end date of the travel ?
Have you travelled abroad earlier ?
what is the agenda for each and every day ?
Do you get any remuneration while you stay in US from Paypal ?
Who will be taking care of the expenses during the stay ?
How you can guarantee that you will return ?
how will you / your company benefit from these meetings ?
what is your role in your current project ?
What is your role in previous organization ?
where you are staying ?

My best Wishes.

Hi all,

its really helpful going through all the post but i am still confused with process as i am also having the similar answer as most of the question raised by the VO and answered by the people here so what should i do differently to get the Visa my travel period is 3 weeks which falls in in rear category.

i am currently working with a french Bank which have there branches in 82 countries with strength of 1,70,000 employees.

so i am not going to visit any client site its a extended branch in new York, to migrate some additional task in India. (as i know i can not use word training KT session).

My designation is manager and total exp is more that 7 year but in Current org is 1 year. in my invitation letter its already mentioned that i visiting there for attending business meeting and KT session also in day wise detailed plan we have mentioned all the activities as discussion with the team and manager.

as i saw this forum today only and i don't have much time left it, i would really appreciate to get quick reply.

so to conclude i would like to have your suggestion and view to how i can purpose my self with there right answers to the similar kind of question.

Plz response

Hi guys,

Please help me to find why my b1 visa got rejected.

VO: Please pass Ur passport
Me:Sure
VO: Which company Ur working for.
Me: xxxx
VO: Which client your working?
Me: xxx
VO:What is Ur salary per year
Me: xxx
VO: how long it working with Ur company
Me: past 1.7 years
VO: What is your purpose of visit.
Me: to participate in team meetings,group discussions and to attend user training .
VO: Do u have invitation letter?
Me: Pass my invitation letter ( which is from my parent company in US,as I don't have
Clinet invitation)
VO: he is typing something in system for a long time...
And he said Ur visa got rejected.

Can you guys please help. To find why they rejected...

Hello everyone, first of all, thanks to Immihelp, I really learnt a lot from this site -much appreciated.

I was scheduled for an interview in one of the U.S Consulate in Europe on 31st of Jan. The interview went quite well and I was asked some general questions like everyone goes through.

VO gave me white 221 (g) and said we do not need any other document or information from you but he collected my passport and said ''we need to proceed Administrative Processing (AP), I think it should be fine but I cannot guarantee the visa, we will decide once AP is done''.

I left the counter with smiling face and said thank you.

Since that day, the status of my application was AP and I got a change in the last update on 15th with still AP status and today I got another update in date and my status turned to 'Issued'.

Is this mean I have been granted a visa? still, confuse.

Thanks, everyone.

Hi Guys, help me understand why I got rejected, my company will apply again in all likelihood.

Chennai
10:15 slot

VO : Good morning, how are you?

Me: Good Morning, I'm fine, thank you! .

Vo : Which company are you from?

Me : Told first the smaller name, but then completely told the bigger name.

VO : The micrphone is in the right hand side

Me: **Moves towards the right**.

VO : Why do you want to goto US ?

Me : Bunch of meetings I need to attend.

VO; What do you do for YYYY ?

Me: Statisticall Modelling, building ML algorithms,to recommend stuff to higher management.

VO : Where do you want to goto US?

Me: Atlanta

VO: As a statistician, why do you need to go to US for this meeting?(Similar to this)

Me: I have to interact with various teams across two weeks. Understand their prrocesses, and the kind of people they hired, and the way they go about engaging in their processes

VO: What processes are these?

Me: .different teams do different work and we need to sit with them to understand how all of these tie up and essentially implement that in India.

VO; Ok

VO:How long have you been wit conversant?

Me: One year

Are you married?

Me: No

Vo: **looks at the passport** and have you traveled anywhere outside India ?

Me: No

Takes the blue 214B form out and says you cant get the visa for the following rules and highlights the first point of 214B,which talks of lack of ties to one's home country.

I say ok, and leave. In the meantime, I am devasted.

What went wrong? He didn't ask for my salary, which was pretty good,and neither he asked about my family,whether there were any ties back at home. I genuinely have no reason to immigrate to US. I can't even if I wanted because I have dependents in the form of Sibling and a parent.

What went wrong in here?

Hi Members,

I had my Visa interview on 6th Feb 2018, below is the conversation:

VO: Which Company?
Me: XX

VO: How long you have been associated with this company?
Me: 10 Months

VO: Purpose of Visit
Me: Interact with Solution architects, Sales directors and participate in Client business meetings.

VO: Have you travelled abroad earlier?
Me: No

VO: What is your per month salary?
Me: XX per month

VO: Sorry I cannot approve your Visa now, you may reapply later. Handover 214(B).

I am married with a kid, has 12 years of experience and decent salary. Please help me with below questions.

What could be probable reason for rejection?
Can I apply again for B1 within a month?
If I go for L1 instead of reapplying for B1, will this rejection affect by L1 Visa approval.
Should I go for B1 or L1?

Appreciate your help in advance!