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L1A Blanket - Visa Approved
Dear All
Firstly many thanks to this forum and I owe a lot to this forum for my L1A Blanket approval. I attended the OFC on 21-April and PA on 22-April.
Some experts in this forum suggested about not adhering to a dress code, but this is purely my view and take this only if you feel its relevant. Since its L1A, i wanted to put up the best possible attire to the Officer and I felt this is critical.
I wore a Brown colored Blazer for the OFC and wore Black colored Blazer for the PA just to show that I do show that 1. I do have multiple Blazers 2. Didn't want the Officer to get a different image of wearing a T-Shirt for OFC and Fully suited for PA. This would give a wrong impression that he is just dressing for this occasion. Again purely my view. Might be very trivial, but wanted to bring this out in case it helps someone
PA Experience
I went with my wife and daughter. Wife and I rehearsed on the various questions and decided on the best possible way to put forth the answer. We did mock interviews between ourselves (Might sound silly, you bet we did :-), thirdly we also gave some basic instructions to our kid - Greet the officer, Officer might ask for name, please do answer - these are nitty gritty things which will work well in our favor (My daughter is 2.5 years old).
Our PA was at 08:30 AM, we reached at 07:45. They let people at 08:00 AM. We were way behind the queue, but a security officer saw us with our kid and asked us to go directly inside.
Post security check and some basic verification, we went to the other building where we were greeted by young staff members who were very courteous and helped us arrange and bundle them up. He took the principal applicants passport, folded the three I129 one after the other followed by the Receipt, below that
dependents passport and placed a rubber band around this.
This is really good and all we need to do is, hand them over directly to the officer.
There was an old lady ahead of me (Around 60s) and the officer was talking to them in Tamil. This was amazing. The lady had a very poor case and I think their daughter didn't prepare her well for this and hence her application got rejected. There might be umpteen number of rejections you will see right there in front you, but please never be disturbed by those. This is very important
Then came my turn. We both greeted "Good Morning Officer". He said "Very Good Morning", So this is YYYY (Pointing to my daughter). We said Yes.
At that I told my daughter to waiver her hands to the officer and she gave a flying kiss (which was a heavy bonus).
Officer - I understand this is L1A Blanket, please understand this is a critical Visa and I need complete justification to approve this. Hence I'll raise some questions and I request you to give me answers which will help me evaluate you.
Self - Sure Officer, we perfectly understand and we will answer them to the best of our abilities
Officer - Who is your Customer ?
Self - ZZZ
Officer - Since this is an internal subsidiary, he asked details on this customer.
Self - I explained in a sentence what the subsidiary is and how its related to my main organization
Officer - What is your role
Self - ZZZ, Take care of YYY Functional Area
Officer - Can you elaborate a bit more
Self - Elaborated in 2 sentences.
Question 6 When are you planning to leave
Answer 6 Explained
Question 7 How many years are you planning to stay ?
Answer 7 3 Years
Question 8 Can you tell me in USD, what would be your salary
Answer 8 Provided only the figure
Question 9 How is the reporting structure, how many reportees do you have ?
Answer 9 I will have 5 direct reportees at Onsite, 5 direct reportees at Offshore
Question 10 What is your highest degree ?
Answer 10 Said I'm an Engineer. Then said Its Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical
Question 11 Overall Experience in TCS
Answer 10 Explained
Question 11 Hello Madam (To my wife), What is your Highest degree ?
Answer 11 I'm an Engineer. Then said Its Bachelors of Technology in Electronics
Question 12 Have you worked in US before ?
Answer 12 Yes and Explained where all she worked briefly
Firstly many thanks to this forum and I owe a lot to this forum for my L1A Blanket approval. I attended the OFC on 21-April and PA on 22-April.
Some experts in this forum suggested about not adhering to a dress code, but this is purely my view and take this only if you feel its relevant. Since its L1A, i wanted to put up the best possible attire to the Officer and I felt this is critical.
I wore a Brown colored Blazer for the OFC and wore Black colored Blazer for the PA just to show that I do show that 1. I do have multiple Blazers 2. Didn't want the Officer to get a different image of wearing a T-Shirt for OFC and Fully suited for PA. This would give a wrong impression that he is just dressing for this occasion. Again purely my view. Might be very trivial, but wanted to bring this out in case it helps someone
PA Experience
I went with my wife and daughter. Wife and I rehearsed on the various questions and decided on the best possible way to put forth the answer. We did mock interviews between ourselves (Might sound silly, you bet we did :-), thirdly we also gave some basic instructions to our kid - Greet the officer, Officer might ask for name, please do answer - these are nitty gritty things which will work well in our favor (My daughter is 2.5 years old).
Our PA was at 08:30 AM, we reached at 07:45. They let people at 08:00 AM. We were way behind the queue, but a security officer saw us with our kid and asked us to go directly inside.
Post security check and some basic verification, we went to the other building where we were greeted by young staff members who were very courteous and helped us arrange and bundle them up. He took the principal applicants passport, folded the three I129 one after the other followed by the Receipt, below that
dependents passport and placed a rubber band around this.
This is really good and all we need to do is, hand them over directly to the officer.
There was an old lady ahead of me (Around 60s) and the officer was talking to them in Tamil. This was amazing. The lady had a very poor case and I think their daughter didn't prepare her well for this and hence her application got rejected. There might be umpteen number of rejections you will see right there in front you, but please never be disturbed by those. This is very important
Then came my turn. We both greeted "Good Morning Officer". He said "Very Good Morning", So this is YYYY (Pointing to my daughter). We said Yes.
At that I told my daughter to waiver her hands to the officer and she gave a flying kiss (which was a heavy bonus).
Officer - I understand this is L1A Blanket, please understand this is a critical Visa and I need complete justification to approve this. Hence I'll raise some questions and I request you to give me answers which will help me evaluate you.
Self - Sure Officer, we perfectly understand and we will answer them to the best of our abilities
Officer - Who is your Customer ?
Self - ZZZ
Officer - Since this is an internal subsidiary, he asked details on this customer.
Self - I explained in a sentence what the subsidiary is and how its related to my main organization
Officer - What is your role
Self - ZZZ, Take care of YYY Functional Area
Officer - Can you elaborate a bit more
Self - Elaborated in 2 sentences.
Question 6 When are you planning to leave
Answer 6 Explained
Question 7 How many years are you planning to stay ?
Answer 7 3 Years
Question 8 Can you tell me in USD, what would be your salary
Answer 8 Provided only the figure
Question 9 How is the reporting structure, how many reportees do you have ?
Answer 9 I will have 5 direct reportees at Onsite, 5 direct reportees at Offshore
Question 10 What is your highest degree ?
Answer 10 Said I'm an Engineer. Then said Its Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical
Question 11 Overall Experience in TCS
Answer 10 Explained
Question 11 Hello Madam (To my wife), What is your Highest degree ?
Answer 11 I'm an Engineer. Then said Its Bachelors of Technology in Electronics
Question 12 Have you worked in US before ?
Answer 12 Yes and Explained where all she worked briefly
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