L1 A Blanket vs Individual Success rate

[kalyanvgopal]

Hi,

I am a Principal engineer with 20 years of experience. I have lot of functional management experience. I am asking my company attorney to apply for L1A for me instead of L1B.
I heard that L1A Blanket has more rejections than L1A individual. Is it true? Anyone help me to understand why?
Hopefully I will not have a visa rejection. But in case if there is a rejection how much time I need to wait if I have to reapply.

Thanks
Kalyan

[sairam@1]

L1A blanket approval based on various factors and policies, the approvals so far I seen for the persons who carry bigger role in India, managing bigger team, more experience, senior level managerial position in India, more years in current company, manager designation in mid top level. with respect to us role - good salary in us, managerial designation and reputed company all these plays major role in approval.
L1 individual is always the next option to go with.
All the best.



not legal advice just opinion

[Libra_14]

Try to understand the basic difference between Blanket & Individual petition - you yourself would be able to answer that question.

Blanket petition is given to company, after verifying "just" the company's profile. A blanket petition candidate is evaluated at the time of interview only. At that time the onus is on the VO to verify that the applicant is a real capable manager for that visa. VO has no obligation to approve anyone's visa. Hence they deny the visa on an iota of doubt.

On the other hand, an Individual petition is submitted to USCIS for an individual candidate, along with multiple proofs to show his/her capability. Having an approved individual petition means yours & your company's whole profile was fully evaluated by USCIS & the VO has nothing much to worry about, apart of verifying that its you who is the real beneficiary.

Hope that helps.

[Bharath Kumar]

Try to understand the basic difference between Blanket & Individual petition - you yourself would be able to answer that question.

Blanket petition is given to company, after verifying "just" the company's profile. A blanket petition candidate is evaluated at the time of interview only. At that time the onus is on the VO to verify that the applicant is a real capable manager for that visa. VO has no obligation to approve anyone's visa. Hence they deny the visa on an iota of doubt.

On the other hand, an Individual petition is submitted to USCIS for an individual candidate, along with multiple proofs to show his/her capability. Having an approved individual petition means yours & your company's whole profile was fully evaluated by USCIS & the VO has nothing much to worry about, apart of verifying that its you who is the real beneficiary.

Hope that helps.

Libra_14

My L1A blanket was denied few day back, what are the proofs & documents that should be submitted while applying L1A Individual visa.

I am posting detailed turn of events for your references:

I work as a Senior Manager (Sales) in a multinational Software company. I have total 13.8 years of experience & in current organisation i have close to 6 years of experience. I handle a team of Sales Managers, have more than 100+ indirect reporting to me under various project that i had brought( all are based in India) plus also an individual contributor, as a recognition of my work my senior management moved me to US sales & want me develop business their & in pursuit of this my HR filed L1B Blanket Visa( reasons known to them) in June 2019 & my interview was scheduled in July 2019 end. I had not prepared properly & there were some questions on Technical stuff and i did not answer them convincingly hence VO denied my Visa by giving a blue slip saying i am not suitable for this category of visa & i need to get in touch with my HR team for more information.

My HR changed the attorney & this time they filed L1A Blanked visa( Functional Manager) in October 2019 & my interview was scheduled in December first week.
Role offered in US: Associate Director
Number of Managers reporting: 8 Managers
Indirect reporting shown in petition: 103

I am summarizing the questions (in order) for your reference.

1. Full Name - Answered
2. Type of Visa – Answered
3. How long have you been married? - Answered
4. How old are your children? - answered
5. Where do you work? – answered
6. How long have you been working in this company? - answered
7. What are you roles & responsibility? – Answered
8. VO reconfirmed on the designation part - Answered

She took my passport & went inside for some time, upon returning she resumed with following questions.

1. Again reconfirmed on the designation in US & my responsibilities in US. – Answered
2. Whom do you report to & whom does that person report to? - answered
3. How many years are you planning to stay in US? – answered(3-5 years for this she said the petition is only for 3 years & i said i am fine with 3 years)
4. What is your day to day activities? - Answered
5. After listening to my answer for above question, VO asked me whether I have hiring & firing authority. - Answered
6. How many report to you? - answered
7. What are their designations? - Answered( 2 Senior Managers, 2 Managers, 1 Associate Manager, 2 Senior Business Development executives & 1 BD)
8. I see you were denied L1B visa earlier, why? - Answered( for this i said it was wrong classifications of my roles & responsibilities by my earlier attorney against L1 Blanket visa and i told them that all through my career i was into sales, sales management, team management & administration role.
9. I there any changes in role then & now? – Answered.( i said there is no change in the role then & now i was doing the same)

Then she took all our passports inside & returned after few minutes(10-12 minutes), she started typing for long time then said to us that we cannot accept your petition as you were interviewed & denied Visa for same L1B/A(both) blanket few months back & we cannot consider the same petition again. She gave back all the passports( no slip was given this time) & she asked me to talk to my company HR on this for more information.

I had prepared really well this time & i answered all the question very confidently and was hoping my visa will be approved this time but to my luck it was again denied.

Now my management is also kind of worried as how to move forward & i am also frustrated.


my queries:
1. Is there any mandatory cool-off period that needs to be followed after Visa rejection? if yes, what should be the ideal duration
2. Can USCIS deny visa on this ground saying you cannot apply for Visa on the same blanket? or is there any other reason for my denial
3. will VISA rejection be seen as some black mark by USCIS if i apply again or will it be tougher to get a US Visa if applied again after 2 rejections.

I request forum members to help me here, currently my attorney & management has decided not file VISA for next 6 months. Please advise the best way forward.

regards,
BK

[Libra_14]

Bharath Kumar Answered on your own thread https://www.immihelp.com/forum/usa-l...st-way-forward