L1, L2 Visa

Thanks for all the members who posted their experience here, which has really helped me in my preparation. I had my Blanket L1 in the month of Feb which wasn’t approved. I have prepared for months almost all possible questions reading over 1-2 years of experiences in this forum. I had full confidence in my interview, and finally the decision was “not clearly approvable”. It was really heart breaking moment. I was working with a top US MNC, parent company, salary in a range which can be said as “high” for L1A/L1B. Was going to a state where living expense is one of the lowest, at the end it didn’t go through. I appeared interview with wife and child, and the VO asked questions to my as well, with which my confidence level was raised, but the decision was what I never want to hear. We were totally disappointed and it took really weeks to come out of it as I was feeling I missed something which I was deserving.

Luckily my company US counterpart was agreed for L1 individual and I started processing immediately, and it took my attorneys about 1 ½ months for filing it because of H1 timelines. Right after five days of filing it in PP, I got RFE!!!. It was beyond my expectation, as I put enough time for researching and making a very strong documentation with my attorneys. I didn’t want to give up this time, and put all my efforts for collecting almost everything possible which talks about my expertise and uniqueness, but it took some time for my attorneys to file it, almost 3 months !!!. But luck was in my favour this time it looked, five days after I got status my case was approved. This happened towards end of June. Next challenge was getting an interview slot. Earliest slot I received was in September, but luckily I got an early slot after keep on checking for weeks, which was July end. This time again I booked in Chennai.

Stayed in THE Park, which is walkable distance from embassy. OFC went fine as usual and we spent rest of the day going to temple and Marina. This time couple of other things I done was, one didn’t look at any forums including this as I didn’t want to get tensed/relaxed based on other’s experiences. Though I used same set of questions in immihelp forum for preparation. Second, I didn’t prepare in the way I prepared for blanket, all I did was going through my petition 3-4 times. I got a slot early in the morning, and we could bypass the queue because of kid and finally infront of one of the counters.

VO : Hello
Me : Good morning Ma’am
VO : So, you applied for L1-Individual
Me : Yes Ma’am
VO : Which company
Me : YYYY company
VO : How many years with ZZZ
Me : 9 years
VO : Salary
Me : Indian or US?
VO : US
Me : YYYY k USD
VO : All the best , your visa is approved

Right after that she took our passports and returned a green slip. I really couldn’t believe that moment. We returned back from Chennai on same day. Spend rest of the time till flight in visiting temple and in hotel.
Next day morning, I could see status as Issued and yesterday got my passports stamped.