H1B, H4 Visa

VO : Good Morning
Me : Good Morning
VO : Have you Travelled to US Before
Me : YES
VO : Did your family Visit US Before
Me : No
Which Company do you work for
ME : ZZZ
VO : How many employees
Me : xxs
vo : Who is your client
Me : xxx
Vo : What you will be doing for your Client
Me : Explained Roles and Responsibilities
VO : Give me your I129, LCA
Me : Submitted
VO : Where your client is located
Me : xxx
VO : Give me your client Letter
Me : Gave client letter
VO : What is your Highest Educational Qualification
Me : Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
VO : Who is your Reporting Mangager
Me : xxx
VO : Where he is located
Me : xxx

VO : When did you married
My wife : YYY

VO : Have you seen this white Phamplet
Me : YES

VO :Your Visa is Approved

VO : Good Morning
Me : Good Morning
VO : Have you Travelled to US Before
Me : YES
VO : Did your family Visit US Before
Me : No
Which Company do you work for
ME : ZZZ
VO : How many employees
Me : xxs
vo : Who is your client
Me : xxx
Vo : What you will be doing for your Client
Me : Explained Roles and Responsibilities
VO : Give me your I129, LCA
Me : Submitted
VO : Where your client is located
Me : xxx
VO : Give me your client Letter
Me : Gave client letter
VO : What is your Highest Educational Qualification
Me : Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
VO : Who is your Reporting Mangager
Me : xxx
VO : Where he is located
Me : xxx

VO : When did you married
My wife : YYY

VO : Have you seen this white Phamplet
Me : YES

VO :Your Visa is Approved

Mine was a very simple discussion . The officer was taking not more than 10 second s for each one in the queue I was standing and below are the questions I was asked.


1. which Company are you working for?
I am working for xxxxxxxx
2. Who is your Client.
I am not working for any client but for internal Project called yyyy
3. Highest Qualification
My Highest Qualification is hhhh
4. Which place are you going to
I will be going to nnn in yyyy state
5. Have you read the Booklet (the white booklet you had given us during briefing )
Yes I have gone through the booklet.

Congratz sir your Visa is approved , will be mailing the passport to you in a week's time


All I could get from my experience for L1 and H1 was confidence is what matters.
Good luck people
Thanks a lot ImmiHelp for providing a great platform for sharing the exp :)))

Thanks to this Forum, it helped me a lot to know about basic questions. I went along with my wife

here was my interview:
Q: What is your company name?
A: ZZZ
Q: For which client you are going for?
A: ZZZ
Q: Which location?
A: ZZZ
Q: What will be the package?
A: told

Questions to my wife:
Q: For which Visa you are applying?
A: H4
Q: Are you working?
A: No
Q: When you got married?
A: told
Q: Since how long:
A: Told
Q: can i see your marriage certificate?
A: passed the original Certificate
Q: do you have child?
A: Told

and than VO said "You Visa has been approved, you will get it in 2-3 days"

It was just like a cake walk. I have prepared all the documents in a proper way, but VO didn't ask for any document except my petition. There was a long queue outside the embassy, but once you enter in, it won't take much time. Only thing that one should be confident and clear about what he or she is saying.

Hi All,
Thanks to immihelp and all my friends for all the guidance and help.

VO : Do you know what this form is? (Showing the rights form)
Me : Yes Sir, It talks about the rights the nonimmegrants have in Chicago.
VO : Not just Chicago, in whole US.
Me : Oh, yeah.. (Smile)
VO : So, Do you work for Cognizant?
Me : Yeah.
VO : What is your highest degreee of qualification?
Me : Pardon Sir, I could not hear that.
VO : (Repeated the question)
Me : Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication.
VO : How much do you earn there?
Me : **,***$ per anum sir.
VO : What do you do there?
Me : I develop abc there for YYYY (Client name).
VO : What does your framework do?
Me : (I explained in detail what does abc do)
VO : You said you are travelling to New York right?? (This was just to check the correctness of your answer).
Me : No Sir, It is Chicago.
VO : Oh, looks like your L-1B was rejected earlier.
Me : Yes Sir last April it was rejected.
VO : Oh, Then this timeeeeeeeeee (Dragging) Its going to beeeee approved..
Me : (I had paused for a min and said) Thanks a lot Sir.
VO : Thank you Sir.
Me : Have a nice day.

I was on cloud 9 when I came out.
Thanks to all who shared their experience and made me confident for this.

Chennai Consulate.

Interview Date: 27th March 2012.
Type: Renewal - Full Time Employee.
Note: I did not realize that I did not take DS-160 Copy until I stood in the visa interview line. Front office people are generous enough they let me in with out it.

H1B Question:
1. Where are you heading to?
Ans: Location (City and State)
2. Which company you work for?
3. Annual Salary?
4. Show me your LCA and Labor?
5. How many years of experiance do you have?

 H4 Question
1. How long you have been married?
2. Do you work?

H4 Question - 6 years old - 1st Grader.
1. How do you like your school?

Special detailed message for those who ar tense like me. I was damn damn tense, cant even tell u !!! below was my exp.

High level details.

Step 1 - on the main Road, VFS guy will check your HDFC receipt & place a token number on your Passport. Then you will be frisked by another person which will allow you to enter into the consulate.

Step 2 - Another VFS security guard will check your documents & let you enter into the consulate.

Step 3 - You will wait in a lobby for your finger prints. (Your number will display in LCD screen which will guide you to the window where you need to show your documents once again n get your finger prints done. Again this part will be taken care by VFS guys.

Once all these steps are done, you are guided to go into different building where actual interviews are happening.

Interview room exp.

a. This is again big hall where you need to wait for your turn & token number displayed in LCD screen. VFS guys are again present here to help you remind if your number has come.

b. Once your number is there, they will guide you to go to the window where you are suppose to face Visa officer.

BIG Moments starts here

I was stand in queue when my name came. Old couple was ahead of me & VO was very friendly. (I just guessed from the conversation he was having with old couple.)

here is my conversation.

Me - Hello, Good morning officer & passed my documents to him.
VO - No reply, (slightly smiled.)

VO - What company do you work for
Me - xxxxx

VO - Who is your client
Me - xxxxxxxxxx

VO - say again ? he couldn’t understand the name in first go.
Me - So i repeated again slowly.

VO - Which location you are going ?
Me - Stamford.

VO - Stamford or Stanford ?
Me - Its Stamford. (Spelled it word by word S T A M F O R D) n then told him state so that he can be very clear.

VO – What’s your highest Qualification.
Me - Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science.

VO - Whats your Salary
Me - Told me LCA salary. He verified the same in my Petition.

Then he said Your Visa is approved & your passport will reach with in a week & i got my passport in 2 working days.

Couple of Key things - I know how nervous one can be, but really correct info is the key for it n bit if confidence is also required. I am damn sure you will feel very very relaxed once you reach there because you will get at least 30-35 mins to face interview from the time you enter after security check :-)

Couple of things you need to be very very careful.

a. Misleading information, contradictory information or anything for which you dont have proofs will lead to definitely rejection or 221g form (on Hold)

b. Do not fumble while english. I have seen ppl speaking pathetic interview are through because they were just speaking english with confidence no matter if they were correct or not.

c. Your Salary should be matching with what you have filled in DS-160. more importantly you should say same salary which is written in your 3rd page of the LCA.

d. They are very busy n dont spend more than 1-2 mins on any body unless they feel something is wrong. Keep your answers short n up to the mark.

My interview was cake walk may be because i was prepared for Worst !!!!!!!

Also for those who think they may face problems while understanding their accent. DONOT worry at all. they speak English very very slowly to make sure you understand in one go!.

few very generic questions.

a. Why are you going to US.
b. What will you do there.
c. Whats your highest qualification
d. Whats your location ?
e. Who is your company & client

Few more detailed questions.

Q. Why only you are going ?
A. I have been given a project assignment at my client location to suppose upcoming releases.

Q. Why cant you work at offshore?
A. Say because dev team is at onshore.or any appropriate reason for your travel.


Overall - All questions/Answers will be over within a min or two.

I know every can do that unless n untill they have something fake with them. I can understand the pain because I was also very nervous.

All the best

Our interview schedule at 8.45am. We reached around 7.45. It's our 6th year extension. My husband is a full time employee in a reputed American Company. Here is the details:
VO to me: What's your son's age?
Me: told
VO: Is your son american citizen?
Me: yes
VO to my husband: Where you work?
My husband: told
Where do you live?
My husband: told
VO: R u a full time employee?
My husband: yes
VO: your visa is approved and u will get it within 4-5days.

We collect our passport from VFS center today.
Be confident. For Full time employee, don't worry.

Appeared for H1B Visa interview, Below are the questions

1) What Kind of work you do there?
2) Educational Background
3) Years of experience

H4 Dependent

1) When did you meet your husband?
2) How many years since you are married?
3) Verified Marriage pics and certificate.

As I have interview on this friday, As i have mentioned my company address instead of client location in DS-160. The work location mentioned in LCA & I129 is Client Location. will it be any problem?