L1, L2 Visa

Hi All,

Thanks for all the experiences shared. It gives lot of hope and better understanding of interview scenario.

Now, its my turn to post my experience.

Lets discuss what happened on Interview day:

I attended the interview along with my family (wife and kids). Finished the initial process in OFC and went to actual interview on next day.

Note: For those who accompany with kids & infants will get high priority to attend the interview first. So please make sure you are ready for the interview once you paid the Frad. Det. fees. Within a minutes (after entering the building) I was asked to attend the interview.

Questions asked:

1. Where do you work?
2. What is your specialization?
3. How old are you? (to my daughter)

Visa officer was very friendly and was really enjoying our kids coversation and activities.

Comment from officer: Your visa papers looks good and put the approved seal in i-129S and gave it to us. Officer asked us to wait for a minute.. since he was searching for something in his system but a last he couldn't find and asked us to go to counter # 31 and gave us a pink slip.

In that counter, they collected all the Visa papers & passports and asked my resume and instructed us wait for 4 to 6 weeks.

I received the passport exatly after 4 weeks.(really painful days for the whole family)

So, guys please be cool whatever happens and do your homework before the Visa interview. I will suggest a mock interview if possible; so that you will be well prepared.

Here is the list of questions you should be ready to answer (collected from different source):

Which company do you work for?
How long have you been working in this company?
How many employees in your company hold the same title/position as you?
Which type of visa have you applied for? Or is this L1-A or L1-B
How much is your Indian and us salaries?
How many years have you worked on the product? Or how long have you been working in India office?
How long are you planning to stay?
So where are you going in us? Or which place you are going to work in us?
Have you been to us before?
How many people are working on this project?
How many persons working in xxx product in your company?
How many people of your role in this project?
What is your team size in us/India?
What is your total experience?
Have you have ever been to us on work visa?
Since how long are you working with the organization?
Why are you travelling to us?
What is your highest degree of qualification?
You have travelled earlier to USA was it for work?
What is your business industry?
What is your current role?
What is your experience in this product?
What is your date of joining in your current company?
The work that you going to do in us; why can't it be done from offshore? Or why would you have to travel to US?
What will be your role and job responsibilities in us? or What are you going to do in us for this product?
How many of those employees have the same skill set as you? Or How many people trained in this skill set? Or How many people have this specialization in your company? Or Can i have an exact number of people specialized on the same?
Why only you needed for this job? Or Why not somebody else? Or Why are you selected for this position instead of others?
Does your company have proprietary products?
Which application you are working ? or What kind of software you are working on?
What is your application do? & what all are the benefits ?
What are the tools used for this project? Or What kind of tools you use?
What is your business Industry?
What is your duties? Or What activity you are doing here in India for your project? Or
What is your role/title? Or What is your role and responsibility currently?
Why a person can’t be trained to work on this tool?
How did you gain expertise in these tools? Or What trainings have you completed? Or What are all trainings you have attended? Or How did you gain experience?

Specialization:

What is your specialized knowledge?
What specialization do you hold in your industry? -
What is your specialized knowledge in these products?
What makes you special for l1b blanket specialized skill?
Why you specialization so specialized
Whats your skill set?
For L1B visa, the primary qualification is the specialize knowledge, so what is your specialized knowledge ? How you be a specialize in these?

Hope this is useful...

All th best to all applicants. Be confident, cool and keep this in mind, if L1B blanked refused you have an option to apply for L1B individual, if that is also rejected you have another option to go for H1B next year. :-) (this is just an idea, for keeping yourself cool; but please try to get it in the first shot).

Thanks.