L1A rejected. Educational qualifications do take it into consideration indirectly?

[Sreejesh]

Hi,

I work for a tier 1 IT company in India and having 12+ yrs of overall exp and travelled to US twice on B1. I recenetly had L1A rejection along with family saying its for high profile managers after asking some 10 questions. My designation is Associate Manager. I'm Bachelor of Science (BSc Maths) gratudate and done a Computer diploma course from provate institute. My question is do US consulate really read DS-160 prior interview and decide on us? also is my rejection anywhere related to my education as I'm not from Engineering/Post Gratudate Degree background? I know that there is no degree requirment for L1. But still are they looking all these to reject people? I will need to file again L1A/L1B in near future so your responses would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[raghvi]

Hi,

I work for a tier 1 IT company in India and having 12+ yrs of overall exp and travelled to US twice on B1. I recenetly had L1A rejection along with family saying its for high profile managers after asking some 10 questions. My designation is Associate Manager. I'm Bachelor of Science (BSc Maths) gratudate and done a Computer diploma course from provate institute. My question is do US consulate really read DS-160 prior interview and decide on us? also is my rejection anywhere related to my education as I'm not from Engineering/Post Gratudate Degree background? I know that there is no degree requirment for L1. But still are they looking all these to reject people? I will need to file again L1A/L1B in near future so your responses would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Yes and No.

Yes because directly/indirectly in some VOs opinion ones managerial skill is related to ones education. Though really subjective , example, someone might think that its easier for one to Manage Engineers in a field when one is a Ph.D. in the same field.

No because there are no clear guidelines given around these.

Designation is more of a internal organization structure. Apart from education and designation there are many factors which contribute to decision on L1A. One has to understand why the L1 category got introduced in the first place. Especially L1A , which was meant for senior level executives to be transferred round the year from one location to the US office location. This encouraged businesses to be set up easily in US and in turn possibility of more local hires. And L1b was introduced for organizations to be able to easily transfer their proprietary product/process specialists to US location as it would be difficult to get that knowledge within US.

L1 was never meant to replace/bypass/augment H1.

So if one evaluates oneself critically around the criteria of L1A/L1B and if one feels one doesnt meet those criteria its better to apply in H1 classification.


This is my opinion not legal advice.