Hello Folks,
I appreciate all the help and advise being distributed on this platform. I have prepared as much as I can after reading everyone's post. I just wanted to explain my case here and seek any further specific advice.
My current employment: I am hired as a contractor by an American based startup called AITech (dummy name). I am currently working out of Bangalore as their Product Operations Manager and manage about 4 of their contractors under me. My salary is in range of 1.5 lac per month.
About the company: AITech is an American startup. The US office has 3 employees which includes. Rest of employees (currently contractors) are based in Romania (3 of them) and India (5 of us). They are not profitable yet and have been around for 1 year now. We are building a B2B software product.
My agenda: Invited to US for 3 weeks, 1 week is traning programs under the CEO, 2nd week is attend a trade show to promote our brand and 3rd week is business meetings. After finishing all this, come back to India and expand our team here to 10 people.
Additional info: The CEO is actually my cousin. I have been in US before for about 4.5 years under F1 student visa and later got H1B work visa as well. But, I quite my job in US and came back to India to start my business 3 years back. My cousin is hiring me so that he can build a team in India as it is cost effective for the company since the company is still a startup.
Based on the above info: How would you suggest me answer following questions?
1) What is the purpose of your travel?
2) Do you have any relatives and friends in US?
3) Anything else that you guys advice me to highlight to VO
Appreciate your guidance.
I appreciate all the help and advise being distributed on this platform. I have prepared as much as I can after reading everyone's post. I just wanted to explain my case here and seek any further specific advice.
My current employment: I am hired as a contractor by an American based startup called AITech (dummy name). I am currently working out of Bangalore as their Product Operations Manager and manage about 4 of their contractors under me. My salary is in range of 1.5 lac per month.
About the company: AITech is an American startup. The US office has 3 employees which includes. Rest of employees (currently contractors) are based in Romania (3 of them) and India (5 of us). They are not profitable yet and have been around for 1 year now. We are building a B2B software product.
My agenda: Invited to US for 3 weeks, 1 week is traning programs under the CEO, 2nd week is attend a trade show to promote our brand and 3rd week is business meetings. After finishing all this, come back to India and expand our team here to 10 people.
Additional info: The CEO is actually my cousin. I have been in US before for about 4.5 years under F1 student visa and later got H1B work visa as well. But, I quite my job in US and came back to India to start my business 3 years back. My cousin is hiring me so that he can build a team in India as it is cost effective for the company since the company is still a startup.
Based on the above info: How would you suggest me answer following questions?
1) What is the purpose of your travel?
2) Do you have any relatives and friends in US?
3) Anything else that you guys advice me to highlight to VO
Appreciate your guidance.
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