L1, L2 Visa

My interview was scheduled on Wednesday 5th October 2011 at Mumbai. I was little tensed as few of my colleagues VISA was rejected a month back. After submitting all the documents I & my wife got the token. In sometime our token numbers were announced. We were asked below questions & luckily got enough time to answer them

1. Which company are you working currently & how long have you been working for this?

2. Tell me about the project.
- Here without fail I mentioned about the company proprietary "Tools" which I am having expertise on.

3. Tell me more about the tools.

4. In which city are you going to work?

5. What salary are they offering?
- Make sure you know the salary mentioned in your petition. If it's less, do mention that post visa interview there will be salary negotiation meeting with HR.

6. Where did you & your wife met? Is it a love marriage / arranged?

Then finally he said "the visa is been approved & you will receive the passport in next 3 days".

No questions to my wife, he did not even ask for marriage certificate / photos etc.

During the whole conversation, he hardly looked at us, so eye contact was out of question :). However you must be confident throughout & no matter what, it’s your destiny.

All the best!!!

Thanks a lot to this forum which helped in giving me vital information, dos and donts etc. etc for my visa interview. Me and my wife went for L1B(Blanket) and L2 visa at Chennai last week and got through it.

As we were coming from Bangalore we took early morning flight to Chennai. Despita that we had good enough 3 hrs to kill outside Consulate. I remember a small restaurant and a bakery behind the consulate from my previous B1 visa visit where we went and relaxed instead of standing on foot path outside the consulate. My advise is that do not arrive too early at consulate even if u r with kids or alone, it is of no use. Best is to find a place near to Consulate preferably walking distance, relax and arrive 30mins prior to your appointment time. Even the guy who keeps your bag outside your consulate wont take the bags before that time.

Process begins by queuing up outside consulate based on your appointment time. You would need to show your appointment letter and passport to get the appointment token(single token for each family: L1 and L2). As soon as you enter go through a security check separate for males and females(no need to carry the CDs of visa digital photograph as they will be taken out, better not to bring them. There is water provision inside consulate, i remember that they allow small bag for infants for feeding), you will be in a hall with waiting areas. Take a seat and wait for your token number to come up on the screen. At the window, officer will look at your documents, fees receipts, arrange them in order and ask you to go to next window for finger printing. Post that you need to go main building where actual interview will take place. People accompanying kids can go directly instead of being in queue outside that building.
Again once you enter the main building, you will see a waiting area and various windows where people will be interviewed by Visa officers.
Token numbers are displayed in random order so do not get puzzled in case token numbers issued after yours are displayed.

We waited for our turn nearly 20mins and finally our token came at the end. It was close to lunch time and Consulate was almost empty. Do not get disturbed by seeing other people disappointed, focus on yourself and keep talking to your partner if accompanying.
We were called by VO and after greeting her and here is the list of questions i got:
1. Which Company are you working for?
2. What type of business company do?
3. Where are you going in US?
4. Which is your biggest client?
5. What is your specialization?
6. What will be your Salary?
7. Asked to my wife: How long you have been married? Any kids?
8. Back to me : What is your Highest Education?

The visa officer was really cool as when i was explaining her about my company and specialization. She said "you are an encyclopedia and hold on i cant digest all :)"
Finally golden words as people say here: Looks like 2 people are going to US and will give my autographs" We thanked her and left the window smiling.

Few things:
1. Documents which company and lawyer provide are sufficient but do carry all support documents like marriage photos, certificates etc. though i was not asked for anything.
2. Be calm and composed in consulate.
3. Be crisp n technical for answers to questions like company business, your specialization and how you are important to company. They are key questions.Probably prepare in advance what points to mention but donot mug up as chances are that you might fumble. You need to prove your worth and specialization in a domain. Try not to use very generic terms like support etc.
4. Wear formals. Probably avoid suits seeing Chennai climate.
5. Maintain good eye contact, speak clearly and be confident while answering. Its no problem if you take some seconds to reply to questions. Infact i asked her to repeat 2-3 questions as they were not clearly audible to me.

All the Best!

Firstly, thanks very much for this forum and all those who have posted there valuable suggestions

Questions Asked are :

1. From long you are working with your present organization ?
2. What is your project experience?
3. Were you there at client location earlier, if yes what is the tenure?
4. What is your Indian Salary?
5. What is your speciality?

Next questions to my spouse
1. When did you got married?
2. Do you have any kids?
  My kid passport was not ready, so me and my spouse went for PA and said the same, and said my wife will travel with my kid once my kids passport and visa are ready.

Key would be keep eye contact and confidence.
Get ready to face speciality question...and talk slowly and little loud.

Thanks Again to all those who posted there valuable suggestions....:)

Rajesh

First of all I would like to thank Immihelp for all the information they make available.

I attended visa interview with my husband at Chennai last week.

Firstly a check of all our documents was made, then we headed for the next window where our finger prints were taken. After waiting for sometime we got to meet the visa officer.

Questions asked to my husband:

1) Which company you work for?
2)What does it do?
3)Your salary?
4) Then she asked me "How long are you guys married"?
5) Back to husband "What is your highest qualification"?
6)Where in US you will be going? (it seems if you are going to the headquarter office of your company, you get an upper edge. we anyways told headquarter office and the location)
7)Then back to me "you have kids?"
( i smiled and said no...she smiled back)

After moments of filling some info on her PC she told us "Looks like two people are going to US" :)
We smiled and thanked her and wished her a good day.

Tips:

1. Read immihelp past experiences, it really helps.
2. Be confident
3. Be true
4. Smile

I wish good luck to all the readers. Fly High! :)

Thanks a lot for all Immhelp users who posted their experience which helped me in preparing well for interview.
 
Had my L1B , L2 (husband and kid) interview today (Oct 4th).

Questions Asked:
1. what is your experience with current company AAA?
Ans: 3yrs 5 months for current company, 7 years 1 month is overall exp.

2. where did you work before this?
Ans: BBB

3. Who is your client?
Ans: XYZ

4. From when you are working for this client?
Ans: 2 Yrs

5. How many people in the team.
Ans: 2

6. why only you for this assignement.
Ans: expalined about my project experience in these 2 years and we got similar project to implement for someother country.

Question to my Husband(he is also working in AAA)
7. So you also work for company AAA, so are you planning to work there
Ans: As of now I am on leave. I wont work there and will care of my kid who is 2 yrs of age.

Then he asked me for 2 copies of I129 forms and wrote some thing on it and said, you passports will come in one week.

All the best for all who are appearing......

Thanks,

My L1A blanket was denied in July 2011 and I was asked to apply for L1 individual. My company applied for a L1A individual which was approved by USCIS. I had my visa interview yesterday.
Me : Good Morning
VO : Hi, can I see your application please ?
Me : Sure. Handed him the application
VO : How long have you been working with ABC ?
Me : X years X months
VO typed something on his computer and checked my details for a few minutes and said my visa is approved.

I have been following this blog for a few months. Here are a few questions (specific to L1A) I have collected from various posts.

1. Which client ?
2. Which Location are you going to ?
3. Why do you want to go to the US ?
4. How many years experience with the current company ? How many in total ?
5. How many years of managerial experience ?
6. What are your daily activities as a manager ?
7. Have you travelled to US before ?
8. What type of visa ?
9. When ?
10. How many times have you travelled to the US ?
11. What is your Indian salary ?
12. What will be your US salary ?
13. Are you going to replace someone or add on ?
14. Why were YOU selected for this assignment ?
15. Why can't associates there do the work ?
16. How long are you working with the customer ?
17. Previous employers ? Duration with each company ?
18. How will you manage a partial team in India while you are in the US ?
19. How many projects will you be handling at onsite ?
20. How many people are in your onsite team ?
21. How many people report into you ?
22. Did you hire them ?
23. When did you hire your team members ?
24. Did you hire anybody recently ?
25. What is your hiring process ?
26. How many indirect reports ?

Thanks a ton for all you.It helped me a lot to prepare for the Interview.

I have attended the interview on Sep 23rd and my visa got approved.


1)Do you travelled to US Earlier?
2)What do you do at Offshore()
Ans:Described about the Project with out using any techincal terms
when i am explaining,VO just saw the submitted document and told the client name.
3)what is your highest Qualification?
Answer:B.Tech
4)How many months of Experience you have at present organization?
5)How much salary will pay at onsite?
6)What is your Total Experience
7)Are you having Specialized skill(it's big twist to me when VO asked the question like this)
Answer:Yes Sir

Other Comments by Visa officer : Your Visa is Approved.

Thanks to all Immihelp users who had posted their experiences which helped me to prepare for my Visa Interview.

Had my L1-B Blanket Visa Interview at Chennai Consulate today (30 Sep 2011).

Crowd was higher than normal and it took about 2 hours before I was standing in the VO's queue.

Questions asked:
- How long are you with your current organization ?

- You have travelled on a H1 before. Why are you applying for a L1 now ?

- What will be my salary in the USA ?

Total time at the VO counter approx. 2 mins.

My case - 7+ experience in the same company, same client and same application. Did not mention about any tools/methodologies. Just told the VO about my application knowledge and stressed that it is very important for an upcoming initiative.

Hi,

Sharing my experience of my interview on 29th. As soon i went the Visa officer asked How are you? After I replied, he asked me to give my red Folder and my passport. Once i Gave him, he was looking at it and he asked me the following questions
1) How many years have you been with this organization
2) What is your specialization?
While I was answering him, he asked me a couple of questions on the points that I told him.
He stopped me in between and asked me the next question
3) What is your current salary in India?
4) Wat would be your salary in the US?
5) Would you be working in the Client Location?

he kept on typing for 2 mins and then he took some seal and banged it on my form. Then he told, you will get your Visa in a weeks time. :)

Please be confident. and maintain eye contact and when you speak please form a sentence and talk about it. Good Luck :)

Hi

First, thanks to all immi guys in posting their experience which helped me to nail intw succesfully...
Here is my exp...

Crowd at Chennai consulate is very high. Please be there atleast 45min before, though confirmation page says only 15mins. You need stand in line at 5 places one after the other (1. Entry, 2. while showing confirmation page and get voucher no, 3. Enter our details in system 4. Finger prints 5. DD's submission), and final line is at visa interview counter.

Questions asked by VO are:
1. For which company do you work?
2. What do you at this company?
I told about our internal tool.....xxxxxxx
3. How long you have been working on xxxxxx
4. How many people in your company know this tool?
5. Is there any one working in US on this tool?
6. Have you developed this tool?
I told no, but gave inputs for development
7. Oh, youhave not developed tool?
Yes, I have not developed, only gave inputs
8. Who is your client?
9. What is your Indian Salary?
Tell answer in thousands...

That;s it.... good news followed..
VO said, these 2 forms goes to you, one to your HR and other you keep it while you land in US. Good luck and have a nice time in US.

I suggest you to prepare for internal tool very much since they insisted more on this..

Good luck guys...