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Guide me for future please
Mine is a very special case as I'm not able to sink in that my visa has been rejected despite of holding a top position and having number of documents.
I'm a GM in an IT SME which has a turnover of over 35 crore and I draw a good six figure salary. I joined this company just two months back and my past experience is as follows:
Jan 2006-Dec 2006 in one established company
June 2004-Sept 2005 in an MNC but I didn't mention this entire period as this company underwent an acquisition in May 2005 and whenever companies are acquired, you are issued a new letter by the company which acquires so I just wrote May 2005-Sept 2005 in second company details as I wanted to be honest but I took all documents about merger, bridge letter by the new company etc.
There's a prestigious conference in March and this is amongst the most prestigious conference in USA and just to attend that, you have to pay $2400 with no refund option. My company wanted to send me for that as I'm heading the complete software division and gave me each and every document possible with my hotel booking details also ($129 per night). I went to the Chennai consulate confidentally and was waiting for my turn in the Q and had seen almost 8 approval (all elder people) and 1 rejection. When my turn came, I smiled and wish the old gentleman. He asked me my purpose of going, who was sponsoring for that and how long I'd been working for the company and when I said 2 months, he was kinda OHHHHHH 2 Months and then hechecked the past details and said that I worked for a company for a year and for another for few months but I tried to explain him and tried to push the entire file to him which he refused to accept and I told him that my registration is done, hotel booking is done, my wife n kid will be here but he'd pulled out the rejection slip by then and told me that I'm bouncing too much for jobs and he didn't trust me. I kept on telling him that before these two companies, I worked in a company for nine year at a stretch and that document is also filed but he said sorry, you may try next time.
Now my questions are:
1. Did I pay the price of being honest and writing May-Sept 2005 for the company?
2. Can I write XYZ/ABC merged June 2004-May 2005 in DS-157 again? Will they ask me why I changed it or simply consider it a fraud as changing the fact (I guess they keep the record to cross check later). If they ask then I might push them to see the document again and will be saved.
3. Is it 2 months time in the current company or 1 and 4 months in past companies which enforced them to reject this? What is the optimum stay time in a company for them? I guess in IT, anything beyond 1 yr should be ok. Is it normal that they don't check the entire background as I have 12 yrs of experience and 9 yrs in one company but since it was not in my last two, I didn't mention but carried documents.
4. Does conference registration, conference details, position, salary play any role and if yes then why that gentleman didn't bother? I had 100% tight schedule i.e. from the day of conf to the last day and hotel booking also restricted to those days only i.e. right at the confernece end, I had to return back and no extra day.
5. What extra should I do next time to get my visa? I'm planning to attend the same conference next year and will surely stick to the same company but my last two companies will remain the same and they may ask me the reason of previous rejection and they may go back to my 4 months stay in the company but by then I'd be having more than a year in this company so would it play a role?
I know it's long but your reply would definitely help a needy guy.
I'm a GM in an IT SME which has a turnover of over 35 crore and I draw a good six figure salary. I joined this company just two months back and my past experience is as follows:
Jan 2006-Dec 2006 in one established company
June 2004-Sept 2005 in an MNC but I didn't mention this entire period as this company underwent an acquisition in May 2005 and whenever companies are acquired, you are issued a new letter by the company which acquires so I just wrote May 2005-Sept 2005 in second company details as I wanted to be honest but I took all documents about merger, bridge letter by the new company etc.
There's a prestigious conference in March and this is amongst the most prestigious conference in USA and just to attend that, you have to pay $2400 with no refund option. My company wanted to send me for that as I'm heading the complete software division and gave me each and every document possible with my hotel booking details also ($129 per night). I went to the Chennai consulate confidentally and was waiting for my turn in the Q and had seen almost 8 approval (all elder people) and 1 rejection. When my turn came, I smiled and wish the old gentleman. He asked me my purpose of going, who was sponsoring for that and how long I'd been working for the company and when I said 2 months, he was kinda OHHHHHH 2 Months and then hechecked the past details and said that I worked for a company for a year and for another for few months but I tried to explain him and tried to push the entire file to him which he refused to accept and I told him that my registration is done, hotel booking is done, my wife n kid will be here but he'd pulled out the rejection slip by then and told me that I'm bouncing too much for jobs and he didn't trust me. I kept on telling him that before these two companies, I worked in a company for nine year at a stretch and that document is also filed but he said sorry, you may try next time.
Now my questions are:
1. Did I pay the price of being honest and writing May-Sept 2005 for the company?
2. Can I write XYZ/ABC merged June 2004-May 2005 in DS-157 again? Will they ask me why I changed it or simply consider it a fraud as changing the fact (I guess they keep the record to cross check later). If they ask then I might push them to see the document again and will be saved.
3. Is it 2 months time in the current company or 1 and 4 months in past companies which enforced them to reject this? What is the optimum stay time in a company for them? I guess in IT, anything beyond 1 yr should be ok. Is it normal that they don't check the entire background as I have 12 yrs of experience and 9 yrs in one company but since it was not in my last two, I didn't mention but carried documents.
4. Does conference registration, conference details, position, salary play any role and if yes then why that gentleman didn't bother? I had 100% tight schedule i.e. from the day of conf to the last day and hotel booking also restricted to those days only i.e. right at the confernece end, I had to return back and no extra day.
5. What extra should I do next time to get my visa? I'm planning to attend the same conference next year and will surely stick to the same company but my last two companies will remain the same and they may ask me the reason of previous rejection and they may go back to my 4 months stay in the company but by then I'd be having more than a year in this company so would it play a role?
I know it's long but your reply would definitely help a needy guy.
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