L1, L2 Visa

Interview
Whole consulate interview process would take 1.5 to 3 hours.

Me: Hello Sir, good morning. How are you?
VO: (No Reply as he was reading something. So I got nervous. Then he looked at me)
VO: Hi, Please give me your documents (Passed copies of i139, Payment receipts and passport)
(He took 30-40 seconds to read i139 and that gave me time to feel and prepare myself to the situation. After looking at the documents. He took one payment receipt and passed one to me. Then Started….)

VO: How do you pronounce this?
Me: <said my name slowly>
VO : (Laughing) No, I am asking about your company. What is X X X X .. (Initially I thought he was asking about my name but that smile gave me confidence and I smiled back..)
Me : Its XYZ. (Then he typed something on computer. May be he was googling about my company)
VO : What your company do?
Me : <gave answer in short> (I stopped after one sentence)
Vo : Is it product based or service based company?
Me : it’s both. We have our products as well as we provide services to IT organizations.
VO : OK, what you are going to do?
Me : I am going to implement our tool ABC for our client PQRS.
Vo : (Bit confused about ABC or didn’t hear it properly) what you said? H..?? What?
Me : A B C (pronounced slowly) it’s a big data tool.
Vo : What is it? Big what?
Me : Big Data. Its dealing with large data. You can say huge data more than tera byte and peta byte (By his expression he was not aware about technical terms)
Vo: Which is your client you said?
Me : Its PQRS
Vo: What? P .. Q?? (He didn’t hear properly)
Me : Its PQRS (and spelled for him . He googled on his computer)
VO : what your client do? (I think he was looking at clients website)
Me : Its one of the xxxxxxxxxxxx organizations in US (Just a line)
Vo: (He smiled at me ) how long you will be there.
ME : 2 years
Vo : any plan for extension?
Me : NO
Vo : when you are going to apply for green card? (..with a smile as he was looking at me carefully for answer)
Me : I don’t have any plan to stay there. I will be back after two years to my family here in india.
(He smiled at me)
VO: OK I am approving your visa. ( then the stuff about i139 copies. One for HR - one for you – Passport collecton.. so on)
Me: Thank you sir.
(He smiled back)

Total interview took 3 to 4 minutes.

Don’t carry unnecessary envelopes as they remove papers from envelopes and stamp all empty envelopes.

Don’t carry cell phone but you can carry wallets, goggles, Keys (But avoid if you can)

Key point is the confidence and be crisp about your answer. I didn’t give any answer more than 2 lines and he was okay for that.

Don’t be nervous looking at other candidates as you can see and sometimes hear other interviews while you are standing in queue. (I was nervous but took my time to feel comfortable)