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Hi all,
I was going thru all the posts in this useful forum on H1B visa interviews.
Now its time to give back. For that only, I created user id and pwd with this portal. I attended interview today (26-apr-2018) in chennai.
As I went with my 3yr old kid, I was not asked to stand in queue anywhere and it took 45 min approx to complete everything.
My timeslot was 10:45am, reached consulate with my wife and kid at 10am by auto.
No parking there so didnt take my vehicle as per my friends advice.
There was a queue, I straightaway went to security (by reading threads in this portal) and told him i came for 10:45 slot. he told me to stand as first person as we had kid.
After sometime,another guy checked our passports and said to go inside.
Another 2 round of checks/scanning to see if your passport has sticker pasted in OFC.
Then we went inside, there they checked PPs again and asked us to go for counter #.
Before us, one lady was attending interview. Consular asked some basic question and approved her case.
Now its our turn.
Q: How are you ?
A: I am fine, how about you.
Q: I am good, thanks. How long are you working with this employer?
A: # years.
Q: Ok, Who is your end-client?
A: told client name
Q: What will be your worksite
A: told city,state
Q: Is this 1st time you are applying for H1B
A: answered (yes/no)
Q: What is your salary in US
A: told the salary # in USD per annum
Q: Have u read pamhlets (showing that book) ?
A: I told No
Looked at my wife
Q: How long you have been married
A: She told # years
Q: Have you ever worked previously
A: answered (yes/no)
Looked at my kid
Q: Hey, how old are you ?
A: my kid didn't respond and turned his head to opposite direction.
Consular smiled and told - "I think I will approve your visa" (which confused us, I could have asked him to repeat his words),
he put rubber band to our PPs and told happy journey.
We told "Thank you sir" and moved out.
After coming out (time 10:45 - our start time actually), we reached home and i checked status, it showed "admin processing".
After 5 hrs I checked status, it showed "issued", so my above confusion got cleared.
I think all depends on consular. Some may ask for docs. Some may not. You will need luck.
Good luck all.
I was going thru all the posts in this useful forum on H1B visa interviews.
Now its time to give back. For that only, I created user id and pwd with this portal. I attended interview today (26-apr-2018) in chennai.
As I went with my 3yr old kid, I was not asked to stand in queue anywhere and it took 45 min approx to complete everything.
My timeslot was 10:45am, reached consulate with my wife and kid at 10am by auto.
No parking there so didnt take my vehicle as per my friends advice.
There was a queue, I straightaway went to security (by reading threads in this portal) and told him i came for 10:45 slot. he told me to stand as first person as we had kid.
After sometime,another guy checked our passports and said to go inside.
Another 2 round of checks/scanning to see if your passport has sticker pasted in OFC.
Then we went inside, there they checked PPs again and asked us to go for counter #.
Before us, one lady was attending interview. Consular asked some basic question and approved her case.
Now its our turn.
Q: How are you ?
A: I am fine, how about you.
Q: I am good, thanks. How long are you working with this employer?
A: # years.
Q: Ok, Who is your end-client?
A: told client name
Q: What will be your worksite
A: told city,state
Q: Is this 1st time you are applying for H1B
A: answered (yes/no)
Q: What is your salary in US
A: told the salary # in USD per annum
Q: Have u read pamhlets (showing that book) ?
A: I told No
Looked at my wife
Q: How long you have been married
A: She told # years
Q: Have you ever worked previously
A: answered (yes/no)
Looked at my kid
Q: Hey, how old are you ?
A: my kid didn't respond and turned his head to opposite direction.
Consular smiled and told - "I think I will approve your visa" (which confused us, I could have asked him to repeat his words),
he put rubber band to our PPs and told happy journey.
We told "Thank you sir" and moved out.
After coming out (time 10:45 - our start time actually), we reached home and i checked status, it showed "admin processing".
After 5 hrs I checked status, it showed "issued", so my above confusion got cleared.
I think all depends on consular. Some may ask for docs. Some may not. You will need luck.
Good luck all.
