L1, L2 Visa

Hi,

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences it helped.
I had my interview few days ago.

My experience in order of occurrence:

1. Day 1 went to VAC for biometrics, simple process took hardly 15 minutes.
2. Day 2 went to Consulate, stood in a queue before being called upon for my time of appt.
3. Joined another queue for security (both these queues outside consulate on the footpath) and then went straight in.
4. The attendant there arranged the documents in order as per instructions they shared mins ago.
5. With passport and arranged docs, Paid fraud fee (by cash) at the fee counter.
6. Another zigzag queue waiting for my turn.
7. Here comes the interview:

Questions asked by VO:
1.What is your company name? (fyi...its a product company..)
2.What is this company's business?
3.What is your salary in US? (fyi.. its above 100k)
4.What is the salary in India?
5.What is your role? (Software engg)
6.What is your experience in company? (fyi.. i am only little ore than 2 yrs exp)
7.How long will you be staying?
8.What is your specialization? (answered in 3 lines, about specialization and proprietary stuff)
9.Will you be at client? (No, as i won't)
10.Who are your clients? (named US clients)
11.What is the revenue generated? (i had very less idea only known due to internal communication, so honestly told so and approximately told the figure)
12.How any employees in India? (when i answered this he commented its relatively smaller firm, i commented we are spread across xx countries worldwide)
13. There would be others you have your expertise, why you then? (told a distinguishing aspect)
14.Do you have kids?

To my husband:
1. What do you do for a living?
2. will you work in US? (seems like this is to check if your spouse is aware of the legal permit, so be careful about saying if you get work permit and suitable role then yes)

Finally he started stamping, i was clueless whats happening, then i heard some words and then "safe travels", thats when i knew.

Some tips from my experience:
1. Be presentable and Always have a smile. (not grinning of course)
2. Greet the officer with a smile with like "gm officer how r u" (it matters as they might be grumpy from last interview, u never know!!! so the first few seconds can change the whole train of conversation)
3. VOs were amiable as i observed, so we can answer calmly and not rush as they would give you enough time.
4. its difficult to contain the whole work exp in few words, but be crisp and use good choice of words to make an impression
5. Be confident and be convinced about your specialization/uniqueness which makes it easier to convince them too.

Thanks!