H1B, H4 Visa

Me: Good Morning

VO: Please give your passport
Me: Handed over the passport

VO: Is this renewal or first time applying for H1B
Me: First time

VO: What's your employer name ?
Me: **** *

VO: What you are going to do?
Me: I will be working as **** **** ** for their product.

VO: How much you will be making?
Me: **** **

VO: Is this **** ** an auto-mobile company?
Me: No Sir. It's a software company

VO: What is your designation?
Me: my designation

VO: What is the name of your current employer ?
Me: My current employer name

VO: Ok. Your VISA has been approved. Have a nice trip.
Me: Thank you very much. Have a great day!!

Hi All,
I am working in a leading MNC in India and my client is leading mutual fund company in US. My client is not ready giving client letter and i have the Master service agreement(Agreement between my employer and client). Client letter is mandatory document for stamping or Master service agreement is sufficient?

Thanks !!

Hi All,

Thanks a lot to everyone for sharing their experience. It has helped me a lot for preparing for Visa interview. My H1 Interview was very easy and below were the questions -

VO : Good Morning
Me : Good Morning

VO : Passport
Me : Sure. Passed Passport and I797 documents

VO : How long you have been with <Company>
Me : Answered

VO : Are you going to work with Client?
Me : No. I will work for <Company>

VO : What is your salary?
Me : Answered

VO : Is this your first visit?
Me : Yes

VO : Are you excited to go to US?
Me : Yes

VO : Where will you go in US?
Me : Answered

VO : <US Place> is very Cold.
Me : Yeah (I was waiting for the golden words)

VO : Collect your passport after 3 days
Me : Thanks a lot

All the best guys ....

Hello Everyone,

Thanks a lot for posting your experience as it helped me a lot in understanding visa interview process.

I applied for H1B and H4 for my wife. Our appointment with OFC for photo and fingerprints was good and went smoothly. Regarding Stamping interview with consulate, it was excellent and end result was "VISA APPROVED"

Interview Questions were pritty much simillar to what I read here in past like as follows:

VO:Good Morning. How are you? ( Consulate was in happy mood)
ME: Hii.. Very GM, Good Thanks and you?

VO: Please give me your passports

/----By looking at passport--/

VO: Is Hexaware your employer?
ME: Yes

VO: What you do in Hexaware?
ME: I am a system Analyst and develop applications using enterprise products such as Microsoft ,etc

VO: What is your highest qualification?
ME: Master in Computer Science

VO: Who is your client?
ME: **** *

VO: What business, *** is into?
ME: **** is global IT company and provides various IT services to different clients all over world.

VO: What will be your Salary in US?
ME: **** *

/-----My Wife turn for questions-------/

VO: For how long you are married
Wife:6 Months

VO:What you will do in US?
Wife: Cooking and will take care of my husband.

VO: How you guys mate?
Wife: Through our Parents

VO: What you like about him?
Wife: He is caring, humble, Kind.

VO: Great(With Smile). ..... Your visa is approved (Kept passport with him) and it will be couriered to your address within 2- 5 days.
ME: Thank you very much Sir.
Wife: Thanks Sir. One more thing. This shirt looks good on you :D.

VO: Thank you. (Blushing)

Think positive and show confidence in your self. Everything will fall in place.

Best of Luck.

Thanks a lot for immihelp. It helped me a lot to prepare for the interview.

OFC interview - 11AM - 4th December 2013

Document required
   - Passport
   - DS 160
   - VISA appointment letter
If you have kids take their photograph as mentioned in the VISA specifications. In my case at VFC, the office took the photo of my kid's photo.

Consulate interview - 8.30AM - 5th December 2013.

Reached the consulate at 8AM. Though the queue was not too big, it took 1.15 mins to enter inside the consulate. After security check went inside the main hall. Since we went with kid, we go priority token. After entering into the interview area, within 1 min I was called for VISA interview. In fact, I thought I will get sometime to prepare for the interview :).

Went to the VISA officer, before me there is one F1 candidate and L2 candidate. The VO was in very very good mood, she was very friendly, she was asking questions to gather information.

My turn came and here are the questions:

Me: Hello Mam, good morning. How are you doing?
VO: Good morning, doing great.

VO: Are you for H1B?
Me: Yes

VO: Please pass your passports?
Me: Sure

VO: Which company you work for?
Me: xxxxx (told the company name, mine is MNC and a product based company)

VO: How much salary you are getting?
Me; Answered

VO: What is your highest qualification?
Me: Answered

VO: what is your proposed duties?
Me: Answered in 2 to 3 lines.

Questions to my wife:

VO: What is your highest qualification?
My wife: Answered

VO: How long you are married?
My wife: Answered

Then the VO told my visa is approved, and the passports will come in 3 to 5 days.

In my case, I am currently working in US on L1, and mine is L1 to H1 conversion from the same employer. But no questions were asked about that.

In general, be confident and cool. I tried to be cool but I was little tensed before the interview. But since the VO was in good mood, it helped me a lot.

I was wearing my company badge during the interview, I believe that helped me too.

All the best guys!!!!
 

  

Hi all,

A great thanks for immihelp and all the users who posted their exp in this site which helped us a lot. I would like to summarize our exp here.

We had appointments on x and y Dec at Chennai.

FIRST DAY

Previous day we reached exactly 10 mins before our appointment time. Since we had our eight months baby with us they didn't ask us to wait anywhere. So we went straight inside OFC. There will be a person sitting outside checking our passports, DS - 160 and confirmation page and let us inside by writing some number on it.

Then everywhere there will be boards to guide us to reach the place. There another person, again checking and paste some small sticker in our passport and will ask us to wait in a queue. Wife and child went directly inside after finishing security check inside the OFC hall. Then there will be n number of counters where only Indian people will be sitting. When they call out our number, we need to go to that particular counter and give our fingerprints and take photo and that's it for the day. Actually we had two DS-160 forms. So even it doesn't take much time. Just they will paste that new bar-code in our passport.

NEXT DAY

Here comes the most awaited and exited day which we were longing for from the past 8 months.

We were there before 30 mins of our appointment time. Again as we had baby we didn't wait anywhere in the queue just went straight inside where they will ask husband and wife separate and will ask to join inside. Security check two times outside and inside and documents check in the tray. At last they will ask to move to next building which is not too far from this one. There first our finger prints will be checked by the US person in the counter.

Then again due to baby we were queued first to VISA interview. Our stomachs were bugging but we were very cool with smiling face without tense. Because we will automatically loose our fear we will become casual.

Here comes our questions.

VO: Hello GM
ME: Good morning Mam

VO: Please give your passports
Me: given

VO: To whom you will be working
Me: YYYY Limited ( My employer)

VO: Where you will be traveling
Me: I will be traveling to AA.

VO: Oh whether you will be traveling to AA or BB? (Since i mentioned i will be working in AA and staying in BB)
Me: Answered accordingly.

VO: What is your salary in US?
Me: XYZ Dollars per year

VO: Who is your client?
Me: Answered

VO: Whether it is an internal or external prj?
ME: Answered

VO: What is your highest educational qualification?
Me: Answered.

VO: Is this your wife?
Me: Yes Mam

And that's all for me and next to my wife

VO: How long you been married?
Me: Its been x year and y months

VO: Do you have only one child?
Me: Answered

VO: What is your highest educational qualification?
Me: Answered.

Then VO were checking something and updating in the system and we were eagerly waiting for the reply for the result.

then the long long awaited golden words came from the VO

"YOUR VISAS ARE APPROVED"....

Then gave the white pamphlet and wished us a safe trip....

Finally we were like freezed.

And one more important thing is they have stopped the courier service. So you can track your passport status and wait for the email and you need to collect your passport from the pick up which has been mentioned in the confirmation page.

While you go to collect your passport from the pick up point, don't forget to take original PHOTO ID proof and self attested photocopy of that proof. For wife and child if they don't come with you, please take a authorization letter for both kid and wife with the Photo ID proof original and photocopy. And that's it. Finally we got our passports with VISAS..

Hope this post will help you.

Don't get panic and tensed, Just be cool with charming face. Everything will go fine.

ALL THE BEST....................

Hi all,

A great thanks for immihelp and all the users who posted their exp in this site which helped us a lot. I would like to summarize our exp here.

We had appointments on x and y Dec at Chennai.

FIRST DAY

Previous day we reached exactly 10 mins before our appointment time. Since we had our eight months baby with us they didn't ask us to wait anywhere. So we went straight inside OFC. There will be a person sitting outside checking our passports, DS - 160 and confirmation page and let us inside by writing some number on it.

Then everywhere there will be boards to guide us to reach the place. There another person, again checking and paste some small sticker in our passport and will ask us to wait in a queue. Wife and child went directly inside after finishing security check inside the OFC hall. Then there will be n number of counters where only Indian people will be sitting. When they call out our number, we need to go to that particular counter and give our fingerprints and take photo and that's it for the day. Actually we had two DS-160 forms. So even it doesn't take much time. Just they will paste that new bar-code in our passport.

NEXT DAY

Here comes the most awaited and exited day which we were longing for from the past 8 months.

We were there before 30 mins of our appointment time. Again as we had baby we didn't wait anywhere in the queue just went straight inside where they will ask husband and wife separate and will ask to join inside. Security check two times outside and inside and documents check in the tray. At last they will ask to move to next building which is not too far from this one. There first our finger prints will be checked by the US person in the counter.

Then again due to baby we were queued first to VISA interview. Our stomachs were bugging but we were very cool with smiling face without tens. Because we will automatically loose our fear and we will become casual.

Here comes our questions.

VO: Hello GM
ME: Good morning Mam

VO: Please give your passports
Me: given

VO: To whom you will be working
Me: YYYY Limited ( My employer)

VO: Where you will be traveling
Me: I will be traveling to AA.

VO: Oh whether you will be traveling to AA or BB? (Since i mentioned i will be working in AA and staying in BB)
Me: Answered accordingly.

VO: What is your salary in US?
Me: XYZ Dollars per year

VO: Who is your client?
Me: Answered

VO: Whether it is an internal or external prj?
ME: Answered

VO: What is your highest educational qualification?
Me: Answered.

VO: Is this your wife?
Me: Yes Mam

And that's all for me and next to my wife

VO: How long you been married?
Me: Its been x year and y months

VO: Do you have only one child?
Me: Answered

VO: What is your highest educational qualification?
Me: Answered.

Then VO were checking something and updating in the system and we were eagerly waiting for the reply for the result.

then the long long awaited golden words came from the VO

"YOUR VISAS ARE APPROVED"....

Then gave the white pamphlet and wished us a safe trip....

Finally we were like freezed.

And one more important thing is they have stopped the courier service. So you can track your passport status and wait for the email and you need to collect your passport from the pick up point which has been mentioned in the confirmation page.

While you go to collect your passport from the pick up point, don't forget to take original PHOTO ID proof and self attested photocopy of that proof. For wife and child if they don't come with you, please take a authorization letter for both kid and wife with the Photo ID proof original and photocopy. And that's it. Finally we got our passports with VISAS..

Hope this post will help you.

Don't get panic and tensed, Just be cool with charming face. Everything will go fine.

ALL THE BEST....................

Thank you so much immihelp and for all you for sharing their experience that really helped me a lot to get this clear the visa interview process

Here is what i went through

Dec 4th i attended OFC

I had 2 DS160 form since i did mistake with the first one, so i requested the officer in OFC to make the changes and they made it without any hassles. Thanks to them

It almost took 45 minutes to complete all the formalities and i came out free.

DeC 5th 9.30 was my appointment in Chennai consulate.

i was there by 9.15 am and the whole road was with a long queue.

They did the regular check and finally asked me to step in front of the VO

Me: Good Morning sir
VO: Good Morning

VO: Can i have your passport please?
Me: yes sir

VO: who is your employer?
Me: YYYY

VO: who is your client?
Me: ZZZ

VO: What does your client do?
Me: I explained about my customer

VO: how long you have been with your employer?
Me: 2 years and 2 months

VO: How long with your client?
Me:2 years and 2 months

VO: So your employer recruited you for your client?
Me: yes sir

VO took some time and was searching for something on his computer and in the meantime was looking at my passport and its papers

VO: Is this the first time you are traveling to US?
Me: yes Sir

VO: Here is the pamphlet which will talk about your rights and law, your VISA IS APPROVED.
Me: Thank you sir, have a nice day!!!

I work for an US based fortune 500 company for past 3.5 years. Being eligible for drop box, I went to Hyderabad OFC office for dropping off documentation for visa extension with same employer. Not knowing what will be asked at the OFC office, I took all possible available documentation with me including 2 copies of it.

Only below documents were asked for visa.
1. Drop box confirmation letter
2. DS 160 confirmation letter
3. 2 Photos (make sure absolutely no shadows. I had to go out to get my photos taken due to hair line width of shadow in background)
4. Copy of I-797
5. New and old passport

I asked the officer to include employer verification letter or pay slips and the answer was NO.

Submitted the documents on 11/18 morning around 10:30 AM IST. I received email on 11/26 1AM IST indicating my passport is ready for pickup.

When I checked status on https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx it says visa "Issued".

Hi ,

My employer has not provided the LCA copy to me. Is it a mandatory documents which needs to be provided during H1B VI?

Thanks,
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