| The RFE had the below questions (don't remember exact wording): Q1: H1B is for speciality occupation, for which a bachelors degree is a minimum requirement. Justify how your current position require a bachelors degree. My comment: I asked the end customer manager. Bachelors degree was the minimum requirement for my position. Q2. List out your daily roles at work. Justify how a bachelors degree is needed for each. My comment: How many of us are actually doing anything that we learned in college? Q3. The project duration is only for 1 year. Why did you ask for a 3 year extension? My comment: We have been working with this customer for more than 8 years. They issue yearly project orders for that financial year. They don't issue PO for more than a year. There were 2 more questions that were similar in nature to Q2. Even though my employer had a team of attorneys, they asked me prepare a response to these questions. I sent it to my employer, not sure if they modified it. Got my visa approved 2 days after the RFE response reached USCIS (according to USCIS case status website). Almost all my colleagues (I worked for an Indian company) received the same set of questions during their extension. |
I was __very__ lucky to get to the end of the immigration journey successfully (got a green card after many years of H1B, I’m not Indian so my wait time was slightly less brutal), but those long years of uncertainty gave me PTSD and still to this day I live in fear of my permanent resident status being revoked for some irrelevant reason, even if I obviously legally followed the entire process, handheld by skilled attorneys. I have weekly/monthly nightmares in my sleep where I am abruptly sent back to my home country without recourse, which after so many years of living in the US is anything but home.
In perspective, these are very much first world problems, I constantly remind myself of that.