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L1A Individual approval after Blanket denial
Hi All - This forum has helped me immensely, doing my bit now.
Working for one of the big fours (tech - GAFA) and applied for L1A blanket initially, with visa appointment in early August, 2019. Questions asked were as below:
1) You will work with xx company?
2) Applying for L1A?
3) What will be your designation?
4) Your salary in US?
5) How many direct reports will you have?
A: 4 direct reports.
7) Their designations and will you have indirect reports?
A: YY Managers and they will be functional managers, influencing stakeholders such as ZZ. Hence, they can be considered as in-direct reports and will be around 60 members.
8) Your manager’s designation and his manager’s designation?
A: Sr. Manager for xx. His manager is Director for yy.
9) What will be your day to day work activities?
At the end of the interview VO mentioned that “There is no issue with your profile or work you do with xx company, however given the narrow scope of L1A, your visa is not clearly approvable. Pls contact your HR for other visa options”.
Post this, my attorney suggested to go for Individual filing under premium processing.
Timeline -
August 31: Shared all inputs from my end to my attorney, includes detailed info about role and related evidences/examples.
September 27: Petition filed and sent to USCIS
October 8: Got approval notification
October 9: Booked my Visa appointment with latest available date for my preferred location within India.
December 2: Bio-metrics completed
December 3: Visa appointment, questions asked as below:
1) Which company?
2) Company in India?
3) Role details in US?
4) Location in US?
5) Salary in US?
6) Will you have hire/fire authority?
VO asked if I know my rights as a worker - had a sigh of relief after hearing this. But he again goes on :)
6) To my wife - what will you be doing in US?
VO says, give me couple of minutes and goes inside for 5 minutes.
7) Comes back and asks how many years have you been with the company?
VO sees a different colleague of his coming (looked superior) and again goes inside to have a chat with him. This is where I got nervous and started thinking about what's going on.
Comes back and takes 2 mins, while he was typing and reading into his monitor. And finally says, your visa is approved.
Not sure if there was any doubt or confusion at the end which got his decision delayed, but had a happy outcome.
Thanks again to all the forum members for your contributions which is helping lot of folks through the process.
Working for one of the big fours (tech - GAFA) and applied for L1A blanket initially, with visa appointment in early August, 2019. Questions asked were as below:
1) You will work with xx company?
2) Applying for L1A?
3) What will be your designation?
4) Your salary in US?
5) How many direct reports will you have?
A: 4 direct reports.
7) Their designations and will you have indirect reports?
A: YY Managers and they will be functional managers, influencing stakeholders such as ZZ. Hence, they can be considered as in-direct reports and will be around 60 members.
8) Your manager’s designation and his manager’s designation?
A: Sr. Manager for xx. His manager is Director for yy.
9) What will be your day to day work activities?
At the end of the interview VO mentioned that “There is no issue with your profile or work you do with xx company, however given the narrow scope of L1A, your visa is not clearly approvable. Pls contact your HR for other visa options”.
Post this, my attorney suggested to go for Individual filing under premium processing.
Timeline -
August 31: Shared all inputs from my end to my attorney, includes detailed info about role and related evidences/examples.
September 27: Petition filed and sent to USCIS
October 8: Got approval notification
October 9: Booked my Visa appointment with latest available date for my preferred location within India.
December 2: Bio-metrics completed
December 3: Visa appointment, questions asked as below:
1) Which company?
2) Company in India?
3) Role details in US?
4) Location in US?
5) Salary in US?
6) Will you have hire/fire authority?
VO asked if I know my rights as a worker - had a sigh of relief after hearing this. But he again goes on :)
6) To my wife - what will you be doing in US?
VO says, give me couple of minutes and goes inside for 5 minutes.
7) Comes back and asks how many years have you been with the company?
VO sees a different colleague of his coming (looked superior) and again goes inside to have a chat with him. This is where I got nervous and started thinking about what's going on.
Comes back and takes 2 mins, while he was typing and reading into his monitor. And finally says, your visa is approved.
Not sure if there was any doubt or confusion at the end which got his decision delayed, but had a happy outcome.
Thanks again to all the forum members for your contributions which is helping lot of folks through the process.
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