Documents an H1-B applicant needs to carry for Visa interview:
1. Passport and Passport copies of all pages
2. DS-160 confirmation page (Barcode printout)
3. Original Visa interview appointment letter
4. Employer agreement / Employment contract letter signed by you and Employer Company (Original) / Contract between candidate and petitioner
5. Offer letter from the current Employer
6. Pay stubs for the last 2 years
7. Experience letter from the previous jobs
8. Employer letter/ Employment Verification Letter
9. Client Letter – Make sure Client mention Petitioner’s name in the Letter
10. W2’s and Tax Returns (for the entire period of your stay in USA)
11. Bank statements for last 2 years highlighting Direct deposits
12. Updated Resume
13. I 20's (All Original)
14. OPT Cards
15. Work location pictures (not necessary)
16. Client ID/Badge, Employer ID/Badge
17. Time-sheets/status reports
18. Client location photos (optional) (not necessary)
19. Two passport size photographs as per specification
20. Work Experience Certificates, reference letters, appreciation certificates from previous or current employer/s (from the start of your career)
21. All Original Academic Credentials along with mark sheets(MS, BTECH, INTER, 10th)
22. SSN card
23. Driver’s license
24. H1B data collection and filing fee exemption supplement
25. H classification supplement to form I129
26. H1B visa petition and supporting docs filed with USCIS
27. I-797 – Original
28. I-129 &H1B cover letter
29. Copy of LCA
30. Previous I-797A and LCA (If any)
Probable Visa interview questions:
MASTERS Questions:
• Did you do your master's in United States? / Did you study in US?
• How long u been in states?
• What is your highest degree?
• What was your major?
• Where did you do your Masters? / Which university?
• When did you complete your MS? / When did you graduate?
• Can I see your MS certificate?
• Any Specific/ specialization courses u did in MS?
CPT/OPT Questions:
• What did you do after your Master's or Graduation?
• Where did you start working? / To which company did you start working?
• Which companies you worked for prior to the current employer company?
• Was your role in your previous job was xxxxx?
• Who have been your employers since you graduated?
• For which company did you work in the past?
• What were you doing before you were with your employer?
H1B Questions:
• How long you been working in United States?
• Is this your first H-1b?
• Since how long have you been on H1?
• From which place did you come to Canada? / Where did you come from?
• Where you on different project than the project when your petitioner filed you H-1B?
• Are you applying for the same company or other?
• What visa were you in USA before? On F1 - now on H1B status, came here for H1B stamping?
PERSONAL:
• Where do you live? / Where do you stay?
• Are you married?
• Do you have any arrested history or did any law enforcement officials contacted you? Never sir?
• When you last visited India?
• Have you ever been out of the country?
• What is your location right now?
EMPLOYER Questions:
• Are you working with XXXX company ? / Who is your employer? / Whom do you work for? / Who is petitioning for you today? / Who is your petitioner?
• Where is your employer located?
• Who is your CEO?
• Address of employer?
• What is your qualification for this job?
• What is your employer business? / What's your employer? / What does your employer do? / What is your company about?
• What do you do for your company? / What are your duties/roles and responsibilities? / What is your title and what do u do for your employer? / What is your designation? / What is your job? / What is your role in your company?
• Can you please elaborate the duties?
• How much duration u r working with your employer? / How long you been working with your employer? / When did you join your employer?
• What is your annual salary? / How much do you get paid? / How much is your income? / What is your pay?
• Do you discuss pay and wages with your employer? Yes, I do discuss, but as of now, am very happy with what he is paying.
• Why is your salary fluctuating? Why there is deduction on paystubs? / Why so much change in salary?
• Show me ur bank statements
• Why is your pay less in last year W2?
• Show me your W2 worked for your employer.
• Show me your pay stubs
• Where do you work at?
• How do you like xxxxx place?
• Do you have any issues/problems with your employer?
• How do you get your work assignments?
• Does your employer know about your projects?
• Whom do you report to? What you will report to your employer?
• How do you report to your employer? - Weekly status call, biweekly status report, stand-up calls when necessary
• Who will allocate the work? XXX person from my company and XXX manager from client will co-ordinate and XXX person from my company will allocate the work.
• Is there any gap (sitting idle) during change of the clients? / Are you on bench? / Does your company ever bench you?
• I can see that your employer does not pay on time? No I get pay on time. (Please be more confident this time. Say it’s always on time)
• Does your employer maintain employer-employee relationship? How?
• How many employees does your employer have, and any one work in same location with you?
• How your employer and Vendor are related?
• Are you satisfied with all the companies you work or worked for?
• Are you happy with your employer?
CLIENT Questions:
• From what time who have been working with your current client?
• How long with client and employer? / Same time with employer and Client?
• Do you have an end client? Do you have client letter?
• Who is your End client?
• What do they do?
• How long you been working with your end client? / How many months you worked for this client? / How much duration you are working with Client?
• Do you travel to client place? / Do you travel every week to client location?
• What is your position with the client?
• Where is your client located?
• How far Client is from your place?
• Do you work at a client site?
• Any other employees working from your company at client?
• What do you work at Client? / What is your work at client location?
Explain same as in client letter
• Do you have supervisor/manager at XXX client and what is his name?
• How long is the project with your client
VENDOR Questions:
• Do you have vendor? / Do you have any layers?
• What does your vendor do?
• Do you have any one between your client and employer
• How come your Vendor found your client?
PER DIEM Questions: ( Shankar - I have no idea about this can you explain about Per Diem?)
Why per diem is on your pay stub? (It does not count as salary. Your salary has to match or exceed the salary listed on the LCA)
Why you didn’t have per diem earlier?
Why it’s only starting from this year?
Why you dint have per diem when project started?
BACHELORS/F1 VISA Questions:
• Where you did your bachelors? Is it technical?
• Did you do your undergraduate in US?
CLIENT QUESTIONS over the email or phone, if 221g received or received an email of further Administration processing:
In case consulate send an email to Client for further processing. You may prepare your answers and send them to your Client manager if he/she is okay with it to reply as you mention. Here are the list of questions:
• Who (you/preferred vendor/petitioner) supervises the applicant, and is such supervision off-site or on-site?
• Who does the applicant report to for work assignments?
• Who completes the applicant’s progress reviews?
Who reports to the Client Manager? How often Client manager being reported?
• If the supervision is off-site and performed by the petitioner, how does the petitioner maintain such supervision i.e. weekly calls, reporting to the main office routinely, or site visits by the petitioner?
• Who has the right to control the work of the applicant on a day-to-day basis if such control is required?
• Who determines the direction of the project?
• Who determines the applicant’s daily activities?
• Who provides the tools or instrumentalities for the applicant to perform the duties of employment?
• Who hires, pays, and has the ability to fire the applicant?
• Who claims the beneficiary for tax purposes?
• Who provides the beneficiary with employee benefits?
Also, If 221 (G) is issued, U.S. embassy will try to reach the client manager and the employer asking the above questions so all the three candidate, employer and client needs to be on the same page. As soon as they reply to the questionaire via email or phone, the case will be processed and maximum time taken till now upto my knowledge is 2 to 4 weeks. Also, it is asked sometime to the client how soon do you need this candidate to be back and if the client replies that we need him back and there is work pending, this helps to process the case much faster. One thing is sure, once 221 (g) is issued then everything depends on the client and employers response.
PIMS
No comments:
Post a Comment