H1B, H4 Visa

New H1B 2013( Intw date - 6th Nov) - for a small company in US
Mumbai Visa center

-- Fingerprinting and Photo(1 Nov) -
Nothing to worry at all here, take the below docs and u would be done in 5 mins
Mine was scheduled at 2.00pm I reached at 12.50, they allowed me in and I was out by 1.10pm
1. Passport
2. DS160
3. Appointment Letter

Once you go in they look at ur documents and stick a sticker at the back of ur passport. You will be given a ticket number and asked to sit. I was asked to go to once counter, scan you fingers take a photo and done, thats it.

There was no line nothing , the room was empty.

-- Interview day(7.45) Reached 6.45am, there was already a small line outside, stand in that they check appointment letter and Passport, ask u to get out ur I797B and keep it in passport. Keep waiting finally they open the Visa office and let every one in, if you are ahead in line you go in first, then security screening and keep follwing the line ,finally u enter the block where you get a token number from one of the counter.
Then again stand in a line, at the end of line finger scanning is done and you are asked to sit in front of a line of counters. Till 8 am no counter was open.

8am first counter opened and the first token number was displayed on the screen , token YYYY served at this counter/window, then other counters start opening and the next token numbers get addressed parallely, so be attentive for ur number, it would be in a sequence. You can actually here the VO asking questions and answers to them if you are sitting in the first row . The first 5 on the window in front of me ,all approved , was I believe , student , Business, Visitor and something else.

So finally my number cake and went and stood in front of my counter/window. One person was standing in front of me looked to be a manager dressed in complete formals with a suit. His turn and boom, visa approved in less than a min.

Finally my chance

Questions Asked

VO : Hi, How are you
Me : I am doing good, Thanks, How are you?

VO: So why do you want to go to US
ME : Employment

VO: Have you been to US before
Me : Yes ,in 2010

VO : where you studying there?
Me : No I was there for employment

VO: Who is your petitioner, what does this YYYY stand for
Me : Told the complete name of the company

VO: Are you married
Me : Yes

VO : Do you have kids
Me: No

VO : Is your wife going to apply H4?
Me : Yes , but not now may be in 2 months

VO : what is your role and duties
Me : Explained 2-3 lines about roles and duties, didnt do that well

VO: So what is it your are going to analyse,design and develop
Me: Basically we are going to develop bla bla, she looked convinced

VO : She started typing a lot continuously looking at monitor, and I was staring at her.
Lot of typing was making me nervous, I thought oh God no ...
Finally she looked back and asked so are there different clients for which you would work
Me : I said ya there are different customers of the company and I am going to b involved in different projects for the various customers

VO : Can you tell me which are the projects
Me : I told the names one by one

VO : Can you spell the name for me for the first project
Me : I spelled the name, VO started typing each project name.

VO : So how long you have been with this company.
Me : No this is for new employment ,I would join them once the Visa is approved

VO : (Looking at the passport) , oh so you were working before for this ZZZ
Me: Yes I have been with them for X years

VO :(Cancelled my previous Visa on the passport) Did you get the white pamphlet
Me : Yes

VO : Ok ,you are good to go ,the Visa is approved.
Me : thank you ( I could not believe that my VIsa is approved, pinch me I thought Iw as dreaming .... but it was true ...thank God ... you can do miracles ... just have faith)Note: I was on L1B before was denied extension