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Username: kunalsinghal
Applicant’s country	India	Applicable Consulate	Mumbai
Application Attempt	1st	Application Type	First Time Application
Interview Date	17 Sep 2009	Applying for	H1 Visa
Visa Status	Granted
Visa Length	1 Year
Questions asked during Interview
Update Date	18 Sep 2009
Applicant Experience
Experience	Visa Length: Unknown (Waiting for my passport to arrive) I had an interview at the Mumbai Consulate for my H1B visa. I am a first time applicant. I had my visa interview scheduled for Sep 17th at Mumbai. Appoint at 8.30 am Petition Approved: May 2009 I was at the consulate at 8.15 AM, there was a huge queue and got to enter the consulate only at 10.45 AM or so... that was the piece that took a toll on me as my wife was sick and could not stand outside. Rest the Interview was very smooth and I was done in less than 5 minutes. Entered the consulate, completed the security check and handed over my appointment letter and passport. They made us wait in the queue for the finger printing, that took about 15 minutes. Once the finger printing was completed, we were waiting for our taken to be called out. After about 15 minutes our token was called: VO: Hello Me: Hello, how are you this morning VO: Good (now she was looking at my papers and then started looking at her computer screen) VO: How long have you been married? Me: XYZ years VO: are you carring your marrrige certificate? ME: Yes VO: Can you show that to me Me: Yes and I showed it to her VO: Where do you work? Me: I for was so and so .. as >>>> VO: How long have you been with this company? Me: 9 months VO: Just 9 months Me: yes VO: what do these guys do? (the company) Me: >>> (my company name) is a leading XYZ palyer with global operations and over 90 cleints etc etc. VO: How many employees do they have? Me: 24000 in India and 27000+ Globally? VO: What is the revenue of this company? Me: XYZ Million dollars VO: How Many employees does the US company have? Me: 700+ VO: So, what are you going to do there? ME: I am going to be managing Operations of the US clients of the company and some other blurb on my Job responsibilities... I articulated it all. (Process Improvement, Technology Upgrades etc) VO: So are you also a Sales Manager Me: Yes Now the Visa officer was looking at the computer and typing something. VO: Your visa has been approved and you should have your passport sent my courier. Me: thank you It was a good experience. Not many questions. Good luck to all, I hope this experience may help someone for their visa.