L1B vs L1I - preference - eligibility

[Pkumar2013]

Hi All,

Appreciate your thoughts/suggestions about US travelling,visa guidelines. I need your advice for filing L1 visa for my US trip. Let me put forward my experience in short:

Posess 9+ years of relevant experience, working with the same client for more than 4.8yrs. I filled L1b visa nd got rejected in 2010,stating i may need to apply for visa of another category. In the year of 2010 just had 1+ years of experience with my company and with same client. currently I have 4.8years of experience with same client. Recently,applied B1 visa got it approved and stayed there for3 weeks(received an I-97 of 8 months validity). Clients require me for an migration project for 9 months of duration. I'm planning to apply for an long term visa,please find my queries on this:

1. Can i apply for L1b again...if so possibility of acceptance will be more
2. L1 Individual would be preferred more on my case. I work on Indian based MNC company in India.Let me know if there is anyt preferred criteria for L1 individual visa procedure.


Looking forward for your suggestions on this

[raghvi]

Hi All,

Appreciate your thoughts/suggestions about US travelling,visa guidelines. I need your advice for filing L1 visa for my US trip. Let me put forward my experience in short:

Posess 9+ years of relevant experience, working with the same client for more than 4.8yrs. I filled L1b visa nd got rejected in 2010,stating i may need to apply for visa of another category. In the year of 2010 just had 1+ years of experience with my company and with same client. currently I have 4.8years of experience with same client. Recently,applied B1 visa got it approved and stayed there for3 weeks(received an I-97 of 8 months validity). Clients require me for an migration project for 9 months of duration. I'm planning to apply for an long term visa,please find my queries on this:

1. Can i apply for L1b again...if so possibility of acceptance will be more
2. L1 Individual would be preferred more on my case. I work on Indian based MNC company in India.Let me know if there is anyt preferred criteria for L1 individual visa procedure.


Looking forward for your suggestions on this

1. Possibility certainly looks more but concentrate more on the specialized skill set category as to how you are going to prove that you indeed have that.
2. You can apply L1 individual too.

This is my opinion not legal advice.