H1B, H4 Visa

Hi All ,
Recently I had my H1B visa inetrview at the US Consulate,Nungambakkam,Chennai .

The following questions were asked to me :

* Which company are you working for ?
* Who is your Client ?
* What will be your US Salary ?
* What will be your job responsibilities ?

NOTE :
He did not ask any questions to my wife .

Final Decisison from Visa Officer :
You are all set and your visa is approved , passports will couriered to your office in 1-2 business days !!

I and my husband went for Visa Interview in Chennai consulate.

They asked me (H1B applicant) four questions:
1.Name of your Client?
2.Your Highest Qualification?
3.Your role and designation in US?
4.How long with the Current Organisation?

To mu hUsband (H4):
1.When did you got married?
2.Where did you first time meet?
and then officer informed to my husband that we rquire some additional information about you therefore this is pink slip and then he went to the other conuter where the Indian lady took his height,details of brother and sisters and told that you will rceive your passport in 4-6 weeks.
 Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot to immihelp. This site helped me a lot in my preparation for the interview.


I had my H1B visa interview at Hyderabad Consulate office.
 I was bit tensed as my L1 visa is rejected previously.


Below are the questions asked by VO:


1) Did your HR file an L1 individual or they went straight ahead with H1B.

2) Who is your end client
3) How many people are working at the client site

4)Who is your reporting manager

5) Does he work in the same location as you are.

6) If he is in a different place, how would he supervise you

7) How often do you interact with your onsite manager

8) What is your highest degree of qualification.


Finally VO said, "your visa is approved and you will get your passport in a week".

Thank you very much to immihelp. The interview experience shared in this site were very useful.

I had my H1B interview at Mumbai consulate office. It went smoothly without any issue.

Below are the VO's questions

 What is your onsite designation?
 What is your Education qualification?
 Who are your employer and client?
 How many people from ABC are working for this client?
 Are you single?
 When are you planning to get marry? Your parents are looking for girl?
Then she (VO) said “your VISA is approved” and “have a nice day”.

I would like to thank this forum for helping me prepare for the interview. I had my interview on June 13th. Unlike most of the feedback mentioned here, the interview was tough. Partly because I forgot one of my document....prior I-797.

Questions asked by VO not in any specific order:

. What is your highest qualification?
. Whom do you work for?
. What's your salary?
. What's your work experience?
. Who is your end client?
. Who from your employing company is at the client site?
. Whom do you report to on client site?
. How many times has the person from your employing company visited client site?
. How do you report to him? How often?
. How does he get feedback on your performance from the client?
. Please provide prior I797?

After that, the VO said your visa is approved.

Please do not forget your prior I797 as I did.

Hi
I am planning to appear for H1 interview at Mumbai Consulate. But in my case my petition was filed by client A and I am working for ClientB. Now I have LCA with me. But the address of work location mentioned in LCA is of client whereas my company is forcing me to add Company's US office address (nearby of clients address) in DS 160. I am confused as I am not sure what to enter because I think mismatch in addresses may lead to rejection.

Also If I mention Client address in DS 160 (same as LCA) whether I will need client Letter?

I faced L1 interview earlier where I told VO that I will be seating at client location and he asked for the Client letter which I didnt have. So he handed over 221 g blue slip.

Please help. I want to submit DS 160 ASAP

I had visa interview on June 13th. Below are questions asked by VO

1. Purpose of travel?
2.Who is your client?
3. What is your highest qualification
4.how long your working in current company?
5.where you worked previously?

Finally VO said "Your Visa is approved".

Hi,

Mine was at 8:45 AM.
Reached at 8:20 AM.
Had to Sit there till 9:10 AM for initial Check up.

After which, i had been pushed to a counter for fingerprint scan!

After finger print scan., i had to get token and wait till my turn.

At around 10:15 AM, i had my chance!

Interview was cool!
Questions were :

1) Who is your employer?

2) Who is your client?

3) What does your client do ?

4) What is your work experience?

5) What is the project you are working on ?

6) Where are you going to work?

Okkay, nice to speak to you ~ i will approve your visa!

Have a nice day!

Al The Best,
Raghu

Hi All,

First i would like to thank the people who posted their visa exp in immihelp. It has helped me a lot to understand the process.

I have attended PAI at Chennai consulate for H1B New stamping on 11th June'12.

It was very cool and no need to worry if you are going for H1B-New stamping. Visa officers will be very polite and they will not spend more than 2 mins asking you questions.

1. I have arrived at consulate at 8.30 AM(Mine was scheduled at 9.15 AM). They called 9.15 batch at 8.45 to join the queue to enter the consulate. So plan to be there only before 30 mins.
2. After joining the queue keep your appointment letter, DS 160 confirmation page and passport readily available in your hand and handover it in counter near the entrance to consulate. They will verify the documents and return them to you. They will give you token.
3. Once you get the token you will enter the consulate after physical check-up by security and another person will check your files and wallets. Don't carry any CD/DVDs, pend-drives etc.
4. Once security cleared, you will be asked to take seat near some counters(1 to 11). There you will have LCD screens displaying token numbers and respective counter numbers. Wait there till your token number appears. Goto the counter and join the queue. Handover over your token, passport, HDFC Receipts, appointment letter, DS 160, BEP letter(Original), I797 approval notice(xerox copy) to counter. They will bundle them all with a rubber band and return them asking to go to counter 12.
5. At counter 12 they take your finger prints and asks you to go to next building for interview.
6. Just like in step-4, here also you need to wait for your token number displayed on LCD screen. Once dispalyed goto respective counter and confidently answer the questions asked by Visa Officer. Your visa will be approved. The below are the questions asked by them in most of the cases.

1. Employer Name
2. Client Name
3. Work Location in US
4. Reporting Manager
5. Salary in US
6. Highest Qualification
7.Project and Roles
8. Did you read the Labour Rights pamplet.

All the best

My wife and I we're both applying for H1b visa to same company.
Applied in Chisinau, Moldova

Interview appointment was to 08:30am, so we cam at 08:00 and started waiting in a line.
At 8:30 the door opened and the man asked "who's for 8:30" ?
They started to invite people inside by two.

When we got invited, we passed the metal detector gates (my belt rang)
They asked to turn mobile phones off and put them on the shelves.
I had no mobile phone with me. My car keys raised no questions at all.

Went inside, passed our documents to the window.
- sorry, you paid wrong amount!
- O_o ? how? 1920 lei is $190 in USD
- no, our exchange rate is different, you should add more to 2280 lei!
- where?
- find a bank anywhere nearby, and come back till 11am
- O_o, ok

We rushed to the bank, bank is closed, opens at 9:00am only
Waited 20 minutes for the bank to open, and paid missing amount.

Second try.
Went inside, it was 9:30am, passed our documents, this time they were ok.
I had the bottom part of I-797 Notice of Action, and they asked why don't I have the whole document?
I answered that it's written on the document itself - to send the worker only the bottom part and keep the rest.
It worked, and we sat to wait

Like in 20 minutes our names were called and we were invited to window#2, together, my wife and I.
So we had a double interview, both at once, though my wife is a separate H1b
VO was a pretty korean girl, speaking English very clear and easy to understand

VO: Hello!
ME: Good mooorning (smile)!
VO: How are you?
ME: Fine, thank you!
VO: So, you are going to work in America!?
ME: Yes, exactly :)
VO: You're going to work in company YYYY ?
ME: Yes
VO: Tell me about the company, what does it do?
ME: blah blah blah
VO: Ok, tell me what is your education background?
ME: B.S. in Informatics
VO: Where graduated?
ME: University ZZZ
VO: Year?
ME: 2004
VO: And you (to my wife)?
Wife: same university
VO: Same year?
Wife: Yeah :)
VO: And what you did all this years, after graduation?
ME: blah blah blah, worked, blah blah
VO: and you?
Wife: blah blah worked too blah
VO: when you got married?
ME: at mm.yy
VO: oh, no so far ago..
ME: yes (smile)
VO: Can you pass me your diplomas?
ME: We have diplomas and evaluations
VO: both please
ME: here
VO: thank you
VO: so where are you going to go? The location?
ME: city, state
VO: is the company headquaters located there?
ME: yes, exactly
VO: where are you going to live there? got any house?
ME: we're going to rent an apartment
VO: do you know what your salaries will be?
ME: $xx.xxx
VO: Very good.
VO: Can you pass me your petitions letters?
ME: I have a petition support letter, and a job offer letter
VO: can I see both?
ME: sure
VO: passed through all documents for 30 seconds
VO: I am glad to tell you I am going to approve your visas!
ME: Thank you very much!
VO: You can come tomorrow at 4pm to get your passports.
VO: Here have your diplomas back, but I will keep your letters, you may have them back tomorrow.
ME: Thanks alot! Good bye!

I liked the interview alot, and got very excited
The key is to smile, to be confident, to look directly in the eyes
Don't worry if you forget some info or some English words, they're helpful and easy to talk with