H1B Interview Questions – Master List

H1B Visa Interview Questions:

This Master List is aggregated from various online H-1B communities and will be updated very frequently.

General:

• Can I see your passport and petition?
• Why do you want to go to USA?
• Where do you live?
• Are you married?
• Do you have children?
• Do you have any arrested history or did any law enforcement officials contacted you?
• When did you visit India last time?
• Have you ever been out of the country?
• Which state are you travelling to in the U.S.?

Education:

• Did you do your masters in the United States? / Did you study in the US?
• How long you have been in the states?
• What is your highest degree?/ What’s your highest qualification
• What was your major?
• Where did you do your Masters? / Which university?
• When did you complete your MS? / When did you graduate?
• Can I see your MS certificate?
• Any Specific/ specialization courses you did in MS?
• Why did you go on electrical and change to computers?

OPT:

• What did you do after your Master’s or Graduation?
• Where did you start working? / To which company did you start working?
• Which companies you worked for prior to the current employer company?
• Was your role in your previous job was xxxxx?
• Who have been your employers since you graduated?
• For which company did you work in the past?
• What were you doing before you were with your employer?

H1B:

• How long you have been working in the United States?
• Is this your first H-1b?
• What is your I-797 validity period?
• Since how long have you been on H1?
• From which place did you come to Canada? / Where did you come from?
• Were you on a different project than the project when your petitioner filed you H-1B?
• Are you applying for the same company or other?
• What visa were you in USA before? On F1 – now on H1B status, came here for H1B stamping

Employer:

• Are you working with XXXX company ? / Who is your employer? / Whom do you work for? / Who is petitioning for you today? / Who is your petitioner?
• Where is your employer located? / Address of employer
• How many employees are there in your company?
• Can you give me the tax returns for your company?
• Do you have the list of Employees with your company?
• What other employer documents do you have?
• What is your project name ?
• Explain me about your project
• How you come to know about your employer?
• What specialty skills that you acquired from this employer?
• Who is your CEO?
• What is your qualification for this job?
• What is your employer business? / What’s your employer? / What does your employer do? / What is your company about?
• What kind of job do you do? What do you do for your company? / What are your duties/roles and responsibilities? / What is your title and what do you do for your employer? / What is your designation? / What is your job? / What is your role in your company? / What technology you would use to develop softwares?
• Can you please elaborate the duties?
• How much duration you are working with your employer? / How long you have been working with your employer? / When did you join your employer?
• What is your annual salary? / How much do you get paid? / How much is your income? / What is your pay?
• Do you discuss pay and wages with your employer?
• Why is your salary fluctuating? Why there is deduction on pay stubs? / Why so much change in salary?
• Show me your bank statements
• Why is your pay less in last year W2?
• Show me your W2 worked for your employer.
• Show me your pay stubs
• Where do you work at?
• How do you like xxxxx place?
• Do you have any issues/problems with your employer?
• How do you get your work assignments?
• Does your employer know about your projects?
• Whom do you report to? What you will report to your employer?
• How do you report to your employer? – Weekly status call, bi-weekly status report, stand-up calls when necessary
• Who will allocate the work? XXX person from my company and XXX manager from the client will co-ordinate and XXX person from my company will allocate the work.
• Is there any gap (sitting idle) during the change of the clients? / Are you on the bench? / Does your company ever bench you?
• Does your employer pay on time?
• Does your employer maintain employer-employee relationship? How? /Is your employer and the client is having the direct relationship?
• How many employees does your employer have, and anyone work in same location with you?
• How your employer and Vendor are related?
• Are you satisfied with all the companies you work or worked for?
• Are you happy with your employer?

Client:

• From what time who have been working with your current client?
• How long with the client and employer? / Same time with employer and Client?
• Do you have an end client? Do you have client letter?
• Who is your End client?
• What do they do?
• How long you have been working with your end client? / How many months you worked for this client? / How much duration you are working with the client?
• Do you travel to client place? / Do you travel every week to client location?
• What is your position with the client?
• Where is your client located?
• How far Client is from your place?
• Do you work at a client site?
• Any other employees working for your company at client?
• What do you work at Client? / What is your work at client location?
• Do you have a supervisor / manager at XXX client and what is his name? Who is your reporting Manager?
• Where does your manager sit?
• How long is the project with your client?

Vendor:

• Do you have vendor? / Do you have any layers?
• Can I see your Vendor Letter?
• What does your vendor do?
• Do you have any one between your client and employer
• How did your Vendor find your client?