 So a lot of USA Elvin visa interviews are lined up in the next couple of months and in this video we're going to talk about the recent trends and the questions which are being asked currently in India. Also, we're going to show you some real interview experiences and some tips on how you can build your credit history in the US. Keep on watching. Hi guys, my name is Shachi and I'm a traveling visa coach. On this channel you will find lots of useful videos on the US visa process. We have an entire playlist for Elvin visa, so make sure to check it out. We also have some free resources. There is a document checklist and a question back, which is going to help you in your preparation. So once you're done watching this video, check out the description box and get your free downloads. So we've been keeping a really close watch at the Elvin visa interviews which have happened in 2023 and analyzing the data and analyzing the questions which are being asked in the interview. There are three trends that we observe and you need to keep these trends in mind when you prepare for the interview. So let's jump into it. So the first trend we have observed is increased focus towards the role in US. Elvin interviews would typically start with some questions about the current or the India role and then progress towards the role in US. But the recent trends and the interviews which are happening in 2023, we see that the focus is completely on the role in US and there are many interviews in which no questions are being asked about the India role. In fact, the visa officer starts the interview directly by asking about the role in US. The typical questions asked here are, why is a company sending you all N1A or N1B, which is another way of asking what's your role in US? Why you for this role? Why not someone else or why not someone from the US office and what will be your salary or your income in the US? Now here's a pro tip for you to handle this situation. If the interview starts directly with the role in US, before you proceed to explain and give details of that to the visa officer, include a one-line context or a one-line introduction about your role in India. If it's an L1B interview, this one-line introduction could highlight your key expertise, your specialist knowledge, any proprietary tool or platform that you have worked on and if you're going for N1A, then this one-line introduction could highlight your key managerial responsibility and the team size that you handle. Now, why is this important? This one-line introduction will really help the visa officer to get a better depth and a better understanding about your role in US. Without understanding about the India role, it might be difficult to comprehend the importance of the US role and this one-line introduction would set things in place. Additionally, you also need to take care of your DS160 form because nothing is being asked about the India role in the interview. The DS160 form is the only place where you could highlight the role that you're playing currently. So, the briefly described your duties box is going to be really important and take time to structure it well. Now, don't make it too short, two to three lines where it's difficult to understand or get any idea about your parent role. Also, don't make it too long because the DS160 form doesn't allow for any formatting, so anything which is too lengthy becomes difficult to read. Aim at getting in eight to ten lines wherein, again for N1B, the first few lines should highlight your expertise, your skill set and proprietary work and for N1A, the first few lines itself should highlight the key managerial responsibility and the team size that you handle. The second trend we have observed is increased focus on location of work. So, the N1 interviews in 2023 had a lot of questions asked about location of work and location of stay. These officers were asking a lot of questions about where the company is located, where you will stay, where you will work and will you go to office. And the sense we are getting from all of this is that remote work is not really being encouraged and the visa officers really want to see whether your work will involve being in the same location and will involve actually going to office. Now, in N1, you could either work at client location or at company location, both are fine, but just make sure that where you stay and where you're planning to live falls in the same vicinity or in the same area as your company. The typical location being asked in this trend are where is your company located, will you be working at the client location or company location, where are you going to stay and will you go to office, how many days of week are you planning to go to office. Speaking of location, here's a pro tip. Along with planning for the visa interview, many of you might already be thinking about your transition and your move to the US. And I want to share with you a product which will make a part of this transition simple and hassle free. This product is called NOVA credit. Now, one of the first things you will need when you reach the US is a credit card and you're going to use it everywhere. You want to use it to pay bills, to buy products, to buy things for your new goal and your new life. And what's really going to matter is your credit history and the score which takes time to build. What if I told you that there was an easy way to do this? What if I told you that you could use your Indian credit history which you have built up over all the years of working here in India and transfer that to the US. NOVA credit does exactly this. So it takes your Indian credit history and develops a US equivalent score which would help you get an amazing credit card right from day one in the US. And this is an Amix card and it has a lot of benefits. And these benefits are no annual fee or deposit required, attractive cash pads, a high credit card limit and benefits on travel and gas when, plus a really secure fraud detection system. Not only a credit card, NOVA credit can also help you get a good mobile phone and a plan. They have a partnership at Verizon for this and this plan will be at 0% interest and 36 month EMI. So literally the two basic requirements, a credit card and a phone plan is going to be taken care by NOVA credit. Now, how to apply and get this? It's really simple. They have a very simple application process wherein you need to fill in a few details and submit and they will get back to you. The link for this is in the description box below. So once you're done watching the video, make sure to check out this link and start your application with NOVA credit. I would highly recommend it and I'm pretty sure that this is going to help you make the transition to US a notch easier. The third trend is the key question. So there is one question which is being asked in almost every L1 interview. For L1A, it is how many years of managerial experience you've had and what's the average team size you've handled. And for L1B, it is what is your area of expertise. And here's a pro tip to tackle this. When you're answering this question, remember it's not about going into details of your roles and responsibility because the actual roles and responsibility can sound routine and generating. What is really required here is to bring in the highlights of your entire career. When you're talking about your expertise or your managerial experience, you need not be limited to just the current organization. So let's say that your expertise is domain oriented and you had this skill set, this experience, even from your past employer or past company, you could bring in and highlight that as well. This question is really about putting together all the highlights or the positives of your profile and presenting that to the visa officer and not really going into the actual roles, responsibilities and the details of the execution. So put together a summary or highlight of your profile for L1B, it will be the key skill set, the specialized knowledge that you've acquired, which can be in the company or in the past companies also. And for L1A, it will be the total managerial experience and all the type of projects and the average team size you've handled. Again, not restricted to just your present employer. So I hope that these interview trends and questions that we have discussed have helped you. Comment below and let me know which we've the category you're going for, whether it's L1A or L1B. So put a comment down below and let me know. Also for a more detailed threat, you can reach out to me. We can do one to one session to help you in the interview preparation. And we can also do a mock to give you an idea of the real interview. Details of all of these preparation plans is right here in the description box. Make sure to check it out. Now the next part of the video, we're going to share some real interview experiences with you. These are the recent interviews and also some interview tips by one of our clients. So make sure to stick around till the end of this video. All right, hope you really enjoyed the next part of this video and I will see you again in the next one. Take care. Bye-bye. I have some questions at the petition stage. So how much effort did it require on your part in the petition stage or was it all taken care by the law firm that was engaged? No, it was taken care by the law firm and my company because I have a, you know, team working as a GMS, global mobility system team who take care of all this process. But I was proactive on this because from the last two years, I was working on my H1B and it was not happening. There was some documentation issue or something was happening because of which I was getting RFEs, which were not getting approved. So this time, I thought I must not take any chance and I proactively reviewed and screened all the documents that we are sharing with the attorney. So what was your learning from this entire journey of a very long journey, I would say of H1 and then L1 and then administrative processing? Yes, yes, we have to be proactive throughout this journey. I mean, NERS, if we see if a company, if an organization, your employer is taking care of all your visa process, but still everyone have to, you know, proactive review all the documents. Coming to the actual interview on the main date. Yes. So what did you wear? First of all, my consulate was in New Delhi. So at that time, you also suggested that a suit will be not, you know, that will be not too much to carry for L1A. And so I was confident that if you have suggested, let's go with the suit. The attire was formal suit. Okay, correct. So I was the only person there in suit, but still I was okay about it. But the other L1A were not wearing a suit? I was not sure whether other were in the queue where for L1A or not. I didn't get a chance to interact much because I didn't have to wait much as soon as I entered and things got, you know, processing. The second thing that need to be done is to, you know, connect with you, have a consuling with you. Because seriously, I knew the answers. I was, because I prepared everything, the questions, because questions are available on the internet, right? I was aware of the questions that I will be asked, but the formatting and the designing that you did, that gave me a lot of confidence, right? That whatever she will ask, I have everything. The only thing is I have to become like I did in the first question, I was telling everything, I was telling everything. So decided I wanted to control my words and had to become that was the thing that was required. Thank you so much for watching. If you have any more questions, feel free to leave them in the comment section. You can also DM me on Instagram. My Instagram handle is at chachi.one and we have more useful content coming up in the L1 series. So make sure to subscribe and stick around.