Business Visa - B1

My appointment slot was at 9:30 am. I reached the main gate at around 8:30 AM.

Before we go to VISA officer, there are couple of other counters to visit.

At 9:20, I arrived at VISA officer counter. She asked my passport and nothing else

I was asked below queries by VO

1. What is your designation?
2. Why are travelling?
3. How long will be the travel duration?
4. When did you join the current company?
5. Which city are you going?
6. What is your annual salary?

She said, your VISA is approved...I said thank you :)
Its done in less than 5 mins. I was holding all the documents, they did not see any document except PASSPORT.

 

Hello All,

First of All, I would like to thanks, this forum site, this helps a lot for everyone who is going to interview for the first time.

I am very pleased to get this forum link from one of my colleagues.... Thanks a lot, man :)

2nd June: - Biometric, My appointment time was 2.00 PM and I reached only 5 minutes earlier. Stood in the queue, only 2-3 members are there in the queue. Carry your DS-160, passport and appointment confirmation print. Gave 4 left fingers print, 4 right fingers and then 2 thumbs. Audio isn't really that great so focus more on what person behind what he is saying.

3rd June: - My appointment time was 9.30 AM, reached 8.00 PM. After Leave My Cab, just run away to line beside the main door ad watchmen told me that, that line was for 9.00 AM members, so I just stood opposite side of the road, after 10 minutes that watchman announced that 9.30 members, so I stood in the queue outside the consulate got my passport checked they will mark appointment sticker on your passport with violet green pen. Proceed in the consulate get your belongings scanned. No mobiles allowed beyond this point. Enter the waiting area 1, Area has got just fans no AC again your passport sticker is checked here.

Enter the waiting area, 2 students sat beside my left and right and both are very silent and, I was trying to talk with one of them and he just replied me what I asked, so, I am getting bored and after some time I just sang a song for relaxation.

Finally call for the Office entry where visa officers were sitting, got my passport scanned and waiting in line for my turn, I was seeing constantly all the Visa Officer and one of them is very strict and I was praying that I don't want to give my interview with that guy, so finally my number was came and I got that person.... ohhh god........ so just went to him and give my all the answer confidence.

Here are the questions and answers.

Me: Hello Sir!! Good Morning!! How Are You? (with full confidence)
VO: Good Morning, I am Good, How about you? (with smiling face)

VO: Why do you want to go to the US?
Me: As my client is going to establish his business and add new products, so he wants me to be there for onsite analysis of new product development, knowledge transfer session, technical discussion and more about business process.

VO: What kind of product?
Me: Answer in Details.

VO: How long you are going to stay in the US?
ME: 2 weeks

VO: Ok which company are you working?
ME:ZZZ company name

VO: Objective of your client's business?
Me: Answer in Details.

VO: What is Your Client Name?
Me: MR. YYYY XX YYYY

VO: What's your experience in your current company?
Me: I was not able to listen properly and my overall experience and also current experience, so that worked very very.

VO: Just checked his screen with surprise face...
Me: Waiting and tried to read his face, and thought why he surprise... and thought that something wrong with my information in DS-160....

Waiting......Waiting.....Waiting.....

VO: Do you have the offer letter from your client?
Me: Yes sir, I got it and just passed him to that paper, he didn't tell me to give that to him but I passed it.

VO: He read that carefully and in detail....
Me: Just see his face with confidence and smile...

VO: Have you Visited other country?
Me: No Sir....

Then the GOLDEN WORDS came.......

VO: I am going to take your passport, your visa has been approved and you will get it after 2-3 days.
Me: Thank You, Sir, Have Good Day... Bye....

I would like to thank each one of you who have shared their experience in this blog.This helped me a lot to prepare myself for the interview and the same made to share my experience!!!!

CONFIDENCE IS ALL YOU NEED WHILE INTERVIEW AND MAKE SURE YOU CARRY ALL YOUR DOCUMENTS.

Be confident, Best of luck!

First of all i would like thank this great forum which helped me a lot to prepare for interview.
I am working in US MNC from last 6 years.I applied four times from this company.
My B1 Visa was denied four times as details are given below:-
1st time(Jan-2012)-I applied for Training and Training period was 3 months,VO refuse the Visa and advise for another category. H1
2nd Time(March-2012)- I did not appeared in Interview due to unavailability.
3rd Time(September 2015)-Again refused as Training period was nine weeks and i have not provided sufficient information to VO and I did not answered properly for previous visa refusal question as i was to expecting those questions.i was bit nervous this time as well.

4th Time(October 2015)-After 3rd refusal we reapplied again after 15 days and got refusal again as VO said circumstances are not changed you need to wait and re apply later.I was confident this time and had answered each question properly.

5th time-(June 2017)-Again i got opportunity to go US and i applied again.This time i prepared all answers for below questions and practice in front of Mirror.

1. Where will you go?
2. Why?
3. What kind of Business meeting?
4. What kind of product?
5. What is purpose /Goal of this meeting?
6. How long will you stay in US?
7. Which company you are working?
8. How long with this company?
9. Where you will stay in US?
10. What is your designation?
11. What project engineer do in your company?
12. What kind of company?
13. What is your company product?
14. Do you traveled internationally?
15. Which countries?
16. What kind of Visa was?
17. What was duration for last international visit?
18. What was purpose of visit?
19. What is your product?
20. Why you are going or selected for this visit?
21. Who will bare your expense?
22. How they will pay?
23. Your annual income?
24. Any specific plan for this visit?
25. Why you rejected last time?
26. Do you booked hotel?

I prepared all answers of above questions.But this time VO does not ask about Previous refusals.
I answered each question confidently.
Key points are:-
Duration of stay was 1 week.
I visited CANADA last year on business visa so it may be positive effect.
I answered my 1 week plan.
MY company is US based company and VO was familliar with my company but I applied four time from this company as well.
VO asked duration with company- I said 6 year 5 months.
Salary per month- YYYY X
Asked about family- I am married and have 1 kid.
Are they travelling with you- I said no
Maintain eye contact with VO and answered each question confidently without thinking and without But/if/may be etc.
I went in formal,No tie.

Hello
So i applied for the b1/b2 visa on 21st april 2017 with my daughter who's 21 yr old.
We were nervous when we gave our interview and didn't answer most of the questions correctly. Probably that was the reason of our rejection.
So i want to apply again with my daughter to participate in a tradeshow this July. Pls help us.

This is how it went
Vo: gm, passport pls
I: gm and gave him our passports

Vo: why do you want to go to the usa?
D: we're participating in a tradeshow

Vo: where will you be traveling
D: texas

He asked us for the invitation letter and we showed it to him

Vo: how long will you be staying there
I: for ten days

Vo: why are you participating in this tradeshow
D: my mother's a designer so we're going to display our product there

Vo: what does she design?
I: clothes. I design traditional wedding wears and casual clothes

Vo: so you'll be selling clothes?
I: no we're going to display and take orders on them. We'll go backto our country to get them ready.

Vo: so you will export them?
(We were confused) i said no, we do it online. (We don't have an export license)

Vo: how long have you been working?
I: 3yrs. We've done similar exhibitions in our country and in dubai as well

Vo: oh great, how were they?
D: they were really goood

Vo: how good was it? How many orders did u take?
Confused again, I randomly said 25

He asked me about my salary and i said there's no fixed amount because it's business. So he asked me how high or how low is it?
I said 50k rupees per month

He asked if any one of us has traveled to the US before. We said no.

Vo to my daughter: what do you do?
D: im studying medicine.

Vo: where from
D: told

Vo: why are you going with her?
D: to help her with this exhibition. We've always traveled together for such trips!

Vo: how many siblings do u have and what do they do?
D: sister's married, elder brother's working with dad now and younger brother is studying

Vo: who is going to pay for your trip
D: my father. (I forgot to mention that i was going to pay for myself and my husband would pay for our daughter)

Vo: what does your father do
D: hes a businessman

Vo: describe your father's business
D: he owns furniture showrooms

Vo: okay and it it wholesale or a retail shop?
D: long pause.. didnt answer it correctly

Vo: whats his income?
D: no fixed amount. We both were confused

Vo: how many workers does he have
D: daughter had zero idea about this. I said 7 which isnt true because he has more workers.. and i forgot to mention about the factory too

He handed over the 214b letter

Please advise!
Thanks!

Hi All,

  First I would like to thanks immihelp for helping me prepare for my B1 visa interview. I read almost each and every post on this forum to prepare for my interview. My B1 got approved today, below is my experience:

OFC on 29th June - It was a very quick process. I reached at 9.30 and was done by 9.40 :). All you need to carry is DS160 letter, Appointment confirmation, Passport. No need to carry bunch of documents.

Consulate interview on 30th June - I had appointment at 10.00 and started from home at 7.45 AM. I got stuck in huge traffic jam and was worried that I will miss my slot. Thankfully I reached at 9.45 AM and could join the queue immediately. After that few security checks were done and we were asked to wait at outside waiting area for 30 mins. There were around 100 people with me. Then they allowed us in where again your fingerprints were verified and asked to wait for our turn to face the VO.

  Here is my interview in exact words:

VO- Good morning. Can I have you passport please?
Me - Good morning Mam, sure.

VO - So why you are travelling to US?
Me - To attend business meetings and technical trainings with my onshore team. (The word Onshore is imp here as many pepole say Onsite).

VO - So you had travelled to US before?
Me - Yes Mam on L1 visa. Intracompany trasfer.

VO - Was it with same epmloyer?
Me - No Mam, it was with YYYY X. Very big name in US (I guess it helped).

VO - So where are you working now?
Me - YYYY X

What is your designation?
Me - Technical Lead

How many people you supervise?
Me - 4 pepople. 3 software developers and 1 QA.

VO - How long you will be in US?
Me - 4 weeks, then I will come back to India to train my juniors.

VO - Thank you sir, your Visa is approved. You can collect your passport in 2-3 days.
Me - Thanks Mam! Have a good day.

That's it. Not a single document was asked. Be confident and keep eye contact. That's very imp. Also, wear business formals and do wear your company ID
it adds weight. All the best to prospective applicants!!

Hi All,

I attended the interview yesterday , the Consulate officer asked for my passport and asked the below questions

1)What is your purpose of visit ?
2)how many days you plan to visit ?
3)What do you do ?
4)what is your annual salary ?
5)how many years have you worked in this company?
6)Are you married ?
7)what does your husband do ?
8)What is his annual salary ?
9) Do you have kids ?
10)What is your highest qualification ?

Ok Your Visa is Approved

Hi All thank you for sharing your experience that will help me a lot.

Can you guys help me to list out no of exact documents required to take in embassy during interview and fingerprint.

Currently I am going to carry below listed things, Do i need to carry anything else?

-PASSPORT
-Apportionment confirmation page.
-DS 16 confirmation page.
-B1 Invitation latter.
-2 passport size photocopy.
-Last 6 salary slips.
-last 2 Form-16.

Hello all

i applied for L1 blanket last year and appeared interview at US consulate ,but unfortunately it is rejected

After my company applied for L1 individual visa and this also denied by UCICS last month

Now if i apply for the business visa ,the above two rejection will cause any impact for business visa

Thanks
Joethi

Hi,

My visa interview transcript is as below:

VO didn’t look at any document except passport. He had zero expression on his face and that made me a bit nervous. Honestly, I wasn't able to smile throughout the interview as suggest by people in the forum.

VO: Good Morning, please pass your passport.
Me: Good Morning, yes.

VO: Why do you want to go to the US?
Me: I am going to attend business meetings with my client.

VO: Where do you work?
Me: xxxx

VO: What’s your experience?
Me: x years and x months

VO: How much is your salary? (I couldn’t understand the question as the speaker stopped working, asked him two times saying, ”I am sorry” and letting him know that his voice is not audible)
Me: xxx lac/year

VO: What’s the purpose of these meetings?
Me: My client has asked me to come there and gather the requirements for an upcoming project. ( He couldn’t understand, so I said this) I’ll be going there to gather the requirements for an upcoming project and once I am back in India, I’ll work on them.

VO: Who do you work for? (He meant who’s our client)
Me: Gave the client name, he seemed puzzled, then cleared him up by telling him the company name again and providing the industry for which my client works

VO: Who’s the project manager you are going to meet?
Me: Provided the name of Project Manager.

VO: Have you ever been to any other country?
Me: Yes, I have been to US when I was x years old.

VO: Your visa is approved, thank you!
Me: Thank you!

Not so pro tip: Answer short and crisp. Let him/her ask new questions, don't make them find questions from your answers.

All the best!

Hi,

I would like to share my experience and take some suggestions on reapplying

1st attempt in the month of Feb 2017 (HYD)

Asked few questions like length of stay, Purpose of visit, exp with current company, I've answered accordingly but officer given me 214b

2nd attempt June 2017 (MUM)

Was confident this time and officer have asked me the questions like purpose, Length of stay, exp with current company and who are your clients etc

Answered everything with confident and also thought i made it this time but the same thing happened officer just said i agree with previous officer comments so couldn't approve the visa and handed over 214b again

reason what i felt was the exp with current company its only 14 months but i think that's fairly enough and i could see people getting visa with 2-6 months exp and not sure does it really matters

So, I request you guys to please suggest on how to get this thru and also am thinking of reapplying but few of my friends suggested if i had one more rejection it would make matter really worse and three rejections leaves bad impression also one more rejection may damage profile extensively

Please help....

Looking forward for the suggestions and opinions