Is National Interest Exception needed for appointments for L1 in Chennai consulate

[arunks82]

With the opening of L1 visa appointments in Chennai consulate, I was enquiring if my company is part of any of the plaintiffs organizations who won the case against the ban.
As I understand, my company is part of TechNet which means that the presidential proclamation would not affect to petitions from my company.

But my attorney is still insisting that these appointments are emergency appointments and i need to have National Interest Exception processed?
Is that right? I thought the appointments are open, with us just needing a letter either from Technet or my company that we are exempt from the proclamation.

Any view on this from those who already went through their process?

[Scooby_doo]

[QUOTE=arunks82;n753980]With the opening of L1 visa appointments in Chennai consulate, I was enquiring if my company is part of any of the plaintiffs organizations who won the case against the ban.
As I understand, my company is part of TechNet which means that the presidential proclamation would not affect to petitions from my company.

But my attorney is still insisting that these appointments are emergency appointments and i need to have National Interest Exception processed?
Is that right? I thought the appointments are open, with us just needing a letter either from Technet or my company that we are exempt from the proclamation.

[mchandak]

When is your L1 appointment in Chennai? I recently checked and earliest available appointment in Chennai is Nov 3, 2021.

[Ravi H]

I was not asked for any docs / reasons related to NIE. But my company is part of the court ruling. May be they knew it.