L1, L2 Visa

Hi All

Both our Visa's L1 and L2 got approved 4 days back.

I am really thankful to this site and each one of you who posted your experiences.
It helped us a lot during our Visa preparation:)

I wanted to share our interview experiences and the doubts which we had during the entire visa process.
I will go step by step and hope that this might be helpful to all of you.

1) Documentation Part:- This is very important because, if you get your paper work right, your chances
   of cracking the interview become very high. They generally refer to the DS-160 and Role/Duties mentioned in I-129S.
-> Fill DS -160 very carefully.
-> Attorney generally asks you details related to your Role, Job/Duties and Specialized knowledge before consolidating all of this into a Justification letter which is then provided to you to present before the VO.

Please research well(try to write your duties in a generic way) and be careful while sending him this information.
As he just consolidates your details ,it is you who has to provide convincing material for him to prepare a strong petition.

2) OFC appointment :-
OFC work is very simple and straight forward.
You just need to carry DS-160 confirmation page, appointment letter and passport.
They verify the above documents so fill your data carefully.
We saw some people running around at the day of the OFC, as they forgot one of the above documents.

3) Interview:-
Key points for Interview:-
--> Be confident (You will win half the battle if you are confident and calm during those decisive 4-5 mins)
--> Try to prepare all the answers before and practice well. (Prepare for cross questioning, Create some questions from your own answers and be ready with their justification)
--> What we felt after our interview was that :-
Your Company name, US salary and the Clients your are serving are very important.
Also it is a plus point if you are working for a proprietary solution or product of your company.
People with kids and wife have a better chance of getting a visa.

Finally coming to our Interview:-
VO:- How are your sir?
Ans:- Good Morning Sir. I am doing good. How are you?

VO - Good Thanks!!
VO:- Which company do you work for?
Ans:- Told the company name.

VO:- How many years with current organization?
Ans:- Told 1 years & 4 months( be exact)

VO:- Tell me you Designation\Position in India and US?
Ans:- Mentioned the same.

VO:- What is you India and US salary?
Ans:- Told him " X lakhs annually which comes to around Y monthly." for India. Specified the U.S salary in the same way(in Dollars offcourse).

VO:- What is your specialized skill?
Ans:- Answered him in 3-4 lines. VO was constantly looking at him while he was answering this question "

VO:- He then asked if you developed the solution?
Ans:- My husband had prepared a good justification for this which proved the importance of his work in his project.

VO:- He asked , If you have sold this solution in the market?
Ans:- This was the magical question, as my husband told VO about the market value of the solution. Mentioned 6 Major clients in US and 4 in Australia.
He was very impressed after listening to all the client names and I knew he was going to approve visa.

After answering this question, he asked my husband to step aside and then asked me to come forward.
VO:- From when are you both married?
Me:- It's been X years and Y months

VO:- What is your highest qualification?
Me:- I said BE. in Computer Science.

(Internally I knew that, only if he was ok to approve the L1 visa ,would he ask questions to me so, I was already very happy :P)

In a matter of a few seconds....He said I am approving visa for both of you :):)

All the best and prepare well!!
Thanks