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L1B visa Success Rate
Hello everyone,

May i know the L1 Blanket Visa Success rate now a days?

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L1-B Blanket got approved at Chennai
I have attended my L1-B(Blanket Visa) at chennai on sep 28th 11:00 AM

Same questions as everybody posting.

1) Desribe your specialization
2) Why you only...why can't others
3) Is your specialization is only for your client
4) what is your client is expecting from you.
5) What you wil do in US.
6) Project duration..

and the Golden words " YOUR VISA APPROVED.

Be confident and Maintain the eye contact. you wil get it.

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L1A Scope
Hi Guys,

I'm having 9.11 years of experience in Software Development in various domain with onsite exposure in US previously in H1B for 4.5 years.

I'm out of US for last 2 years and my present company is willing to file L1A / L1B for me now. I'm with this company for last 1.2 years and in the role of Assistant Manager. I have 10/12 direct reportees under me in India and 4 of them who will be reporting to me in USA in the profile I will be going at the client location.

I'm also working on a niche skill which is a client proprietary framework.

I'm confused in this situation which will be a better fit for me L1A or L1B.

Looking forward to get your suggestions and advises.

Thanks for the help!

Regards!
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L1B Approved
Hi Guys ,

I would like to share my experience through this forum. I have attended my L1B (Blanket ) Visa on 25th,Sept ,2015 9.30 Am slot .

I would suggest you be there 1 h before at least so that you will feel comfortable .I went in the queue at 8am and reached my interview point by 9.25 and finished by 9.45 AM.

Nothing much ,technical, logical .Simple be confident ,free don't be nervous and speak in which the can be easily understand don't much use technical terms/Jargons .

Coming to my Interview

just as usual same questions

VO : Hi Good morning
Me: VGM
VO: Which company you are working for and how many years you have been working there ?
ME: I am working in xxxx Company and I have been working in xxxx more than years

VO: how long you are going to stay in USA?
Me: X years
VO: What is your specialization :
Me : Explained
VO: Who is your Client ?
Me: I Said xxxx
VO : Can u repeat it again :

Me: Repeated clearly

VO: What they do :

Me : I said the operations of that Client

VO: Is this tool using anywhere ?

Me: Confidently said we have implemented in all our in house projects and good feedback as well.

VO: Who else developing this tool

Me:

VO: What is the purpose of this tool

Me: Explained in normal way to better understand

VO: Why you ?

Me: I have explained in a way that my imp in the project and dependence in the project

Finally he said the golden words " I am approving your visa "
Even this could be purely god grace as I am seeing around 10 people were rejected same day .

Note : I can suggest you don't worry much ,just be cool and calm and explain in simple general way since they were not much technical .

All the best

Regards,

Ramesh Challa
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L1B Individual Approved on 22nd September
Hi All,

  I had my L1B Individual approved on September 22nd after a blanket rejection 3 months back.

I had my interview @11.30 and arrived at the consulate 30 min before as indicated. The Queue was quite big outside the embassy and we had to wait for almost 45 min to get inside. Inside the queue was even bigger around 150 people waiting for the interview. Finally, B1 Visas were moved out and gave some room for H1 and L1.

Now to the Questions.

VO : Good Afternoon. How are you?
Me : Good Afternoon, I am doing good thanks. How are you?
VO : Fine...(smiling) Which company do you work for?
Me : ZZZ
VO : Did you apply for a L1 visa before
Me: Yes
VO : was it a blanket
Me : Yes Blanket and it was rejected.
VO : Oh! so u applied for an Individual visa. thanks good.
VO : What will you be doing in US?
Me : replied very confidently looking into his eye(training the new team on implementation process on proprietary tool and customization of the product).. before I could complete, he moved to next question.
VO : Ok, your pay in US
Me : ZZZ
VO : Location
Me : ZZZ
VO : (after typing for about 2 min). your visas are issued.

Take Away : Be confident and convince him that you are the one. Use simple words, don't use too much Jargon's or technical terms. Make short sentences and do mock interviews. Let your answers be understandable.
Read this forum thoroughly. There isn't a single question that the VO would ask outside the ones asked in this forum.

Experience : I think Individual is little better to clear than Blanket. Hope for the best.
I saw that almost 8 out of 10 visas on that day was approved in all counters.

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L1-B Approved
Thanks a lot to every one who shared their experience, it helped me a lot in preparing for L1B.
Now it is my turn to share my experience.

21/09/2015, 12:15 PM slot at OFC:
It is good to go just 15-20 mins before your slot, else you have to wait outside the gate. The bio-metrics will not take much time; hardly 15-20 mins.
You need only 3 docs i.e DS-160 form, appointment letter and your passport.

22/09/2015 11AM slot at US consulate:
In OFC, they will tell to go just 15 min before the slot. But, timing is totally in-appropriate. Better to go 30-45min earlier to your slot. Very big queue and lot of security checks.

Here is the Minutes to Win it:

Me: Hi Mam, good afternoon.
VO: Greeted back.

VO: For which client you are working for?
Me: I am working for XYZ client.

VO: For which company you are working?
Me: I am working with ABC company.

VO: Will you be transferred to client XYZ?
Me: No, XYZ is my client and I will be employee of ABC company.

VO: For how many years you are going?
Me: Told, I am going for 1.5 years approximately.

VO: What is your specialization?
Me: Explained the project and also explained how my project is benefiting customer in saving his money.

VO: What is your salary in US?
Me: Told the numbers ** k$ per annum.

VO: How many people are working in this project?
Me: Told the team size and how many people are reporting to me.

VO: Did you developed this project?
Me: Yes, I did. (With confident and was looking in VO's eyes)

VO: Who is giving the instructions to the pace maker? (Related to my project)
Me: Explained in detail.

VO: Which place you are going in US?
Me: I am going to *** place.

Finally the golden words: YOUR VISA IS APPROVED.

Tips which helped me a lot in preparation:
- Write your answers for all the L1B standard questions in a notepad.
- Use simple words in explaining, dont use much technical jargons.
- Do attend mock-ups or ask any one to take the mock-up interviews.
- Do lot of rehearsal in-front of mirror.
- Be confident and have the eye-contact with VO while answering.
- People may getting rejected in the next counters, so dont worry about what is going on other counters.

All the best.
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L2 visa - Regarding resignation acceptance letter
Hi all ,

My L2 visa appointment is scheduled for next week .

I have resigned from my current company but they are saying i will get resignation acceptance letter during the last week of notice period .

what can i do in this situation since this document will prove i am not working anywhere and as per the document checklist i will need this document.

Thanks in advance !

Please help
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Need to prepare for L1B Individual - Help
Hi,

I have recently been rejected the L1B Blanket visa and my company is now initiated for L1B Individual.
But I am concerned if I would need to be ready with the same Specialized tool that I presented for Blanket or this time I should change it? To be mentioned, I am specialized on multiple "ZZZ" proprietary tools and I used one of them for Blanket petition.

I would be really thankful of Immihelp Support team or any of the fellow mates can help me with the answers.

Thanks!
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US travel
Hi all - Does somebody have any idea, if common medicines like paracetamol, disprin, pudin hara etc. are allowed while traveling to US from India.

Also, the things like nailcutter,small scissor, deodrants are allowed in the check-in baggage.

Thanks,
Bhanu

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L1A Blanket Chennai
Greeted the officer
Officer greeted back but no smile
Just before me I saw one rejection done by the officer
Collected the forms

Q What Company do you work for
A XYZ

Q Home many years in the company
A XY Years

Q How many reporting to you
A Single digit number

Q Do they have any people reporting to them
A Yes total team size is 2 digit number

Q What will you do in US
A Gave the update on what I will such as manage a project within a big engagement and do the roles of delivery, financial and resource managements

Your visa is approved. Confidence was the key, I was frightened. But then I was also true to what I will be doing and presented with moderate confidence.
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