H1B Visa Interview 221(G) stuck in administrative processing.

[solairaja]

Hi All,

Had interview in US consulate Chennai on 9th July with family (spouse, 2 kids) below was the conversation happened in the consulate and finally issued a 221(g).

Questions from Consulate Officer (US Person)

• What is the company you are going to work in US?
  • <mycompany> systems
• What’s your company basically do
  • Software services company providing solutions for the system integration, software development and application migrations.
• Who is the end client and what project?
  • <clientname>
• Can I see the client letter ?
  • Shown the <mycompany> offer letter
  • And MSA with xxx client
• What is your company website ?
  • Provided the URL
• How many employees in your company?
  • 150+ in US
• Can I see the project description ?
  • Shown and handover the SoW doc

Asked to wait – and I have waited for 1 hour and called by Consulate officer (Indian)

• What project you are going to work?
  • abcd for <clientname>client
  • What is <clientname>client
    • Also explained about <clientname>
• Are you going to work for internal project or client project ?
  • Client project
• When you are in B1 you did mentioned you are working for internal projects
  • Yea, those are all poc what <mycompany> develop for the PoC to get projects in Pipeline and based on those PoC during my B1, we won this <clientname> project and the project is in Development in offshore.
• Is PoCs u did are tool or ?? what it is really about ?
  • NO, it’s a baseline application or skeleton for any domain/client specific requirements.
• How long you are working with <mycompany> Systems ?
  • 4 years in India
• Are you going to work in <clientname> Location or <mycompany> office, what percentage ?
  • <mycompany> Houston office , 100% in <mycompany> location
• How many people are working in this project in <clientname>?
  • In offshore 8 and in US 2
    • Are they work in client location in US or <mycompany>?
      • Yes
• What you are specialized in ?
  • I have around 14 year’s experience in Microsoft Web Application Development and Migration projects.
  • Worked in multiple enterprise level Application migration in my current and previous tenures.
• Why you have to be in US for this project ?
  • Persons who are in client location are account specific role, so I am leading the offshore team and any project development related demos, requirement analysis and development are delayed due to that constraint. So I need be in <mycompany> office to support the person in Client location and offshore team.
• Can’t you do the same thing here in India ?
  • No, I have been from the design phase of this project, my presence will have good progress on the project development.
  • Also I will be doing some hands on development support when I will be in US.

Asked to wait for – 15 minutes waited – called by the same consulate officer (US person) and issued with 221 G blue slip with no document requested and she did mentioned that case is hold for administrative processing and returned all of our passports.


Any suggestions/help/comment are appreciated. CEAC site shows "Administrative processing"