L1, L2 Visa

Thanks to this website and all the members who posted their experiences.

I had heard many rejection stories of L1 and was little anxious about getting it. I have 10 years of industry experience in embedded domain and was kind of confident that I will get it. Then I fumbled in to immihelp website just four days before my interview and in fact started getting nervous after reading all the experiences.

So I printed the questions for L1, prepared answers for almost all of them and tried rehearsing them aloud. Briefed my spouse about the questions she would be asked.

Ofc was just formality on Day1.

On Day2 we went 20 mins before out scheduled time, we were let in ahead of the queue because of the kid.
Then after the initial process of ordering the documents, finger print matching and paying visa fees we were made to stand in the queue for the interview. To my surprise there was no token issued. The facilitator just asked me to stand in queue which was shorter compared to others.

Our VO was a lady. . The VO in our adjacent queue looked like he was Indian origin. He was asking questions very loud and was finishing the interviews too fast. Either approving or rejecting. Our VO was very calm, not speaking too much mostly looking in to her comp screen and was taking her time for every interview.

When our time came we greeted her and she returned the greetings.

Questions:
who is your client?
I could not hear her properly as she was speaking away from her mike, i asked her to repeat twise and then she leaned to the microphone and asked again. I replied with my client name.

What is your project?
I explained the project in four sentences and stopped. She was looking in to her comp and typing something.

Who is the current employer?
I answered.

Whats your Indian salary?
I answered

What are your responsibilities at work?
I started well answering this question and in the middle I think I goofed up. So she stopped staring in to her computer, turned to me and looked in to my eyes for 5-6 seconds. Then she asked the next question.

Whats ur project?
This time I answered more elaborately and linking my past experience to the current project.

Can you spell your project and the connection from the past project?
I spelled both the projects. She typed something vigorously in to her computer.

Just for a moment I thought If I goofed it up.

In the next second she said I am approving your visas. You will get your passports shortly.

Then she asked my wife if all of us are travelling together to which she replied yes. We all greeted her good day and left the counter.

My two cents on L1:

I think the VOs there are there to approve our visas. They don't have any business to reject if the case is genuine.
 So unless we goof up with the unnecessary tension we should be able to get the visas. Just being confident and answering straight will help.

All the best for yours turn :-).