Originally Posted by Nutmegger (Post 12699729)

So your eleven years of experience starts when you were 15 -- I think that would raise a red flag with the CO that you were stretching the boundaries a bit. It also sounds as if you are doing this through some kind of agency, rather than directly with the UK company, which may also cause concerns.

Originally Posted by shiversaint (Post 12699797)

I warned you in your other thread about this, and asked you to post the specific questions that you wanted help with. The way you answer the questions on the DS-160 is critical for a successful essential employee application. I would bet a large sum of money that you did not offer the right specificity and wording to explain how the E-2 business needs you and your experience derived skills to succeed.

Essential Employee visas are typically lawyer only endeavours, and it sounds like your one was no good. Coupled with the aforementioned posts about your experience being potentially questionable....well, recipe for disaster. You can definitely try again, - it happened to one of my colleagues - but I would leave it a year so you can demonstrate that something has changed. Going in again ASAP is red flag galore.

Originally Posted by celticgrid (Post 12699780)

You seem very focused on your experience, and the officer's treatment of your claimed experience, yet earlier on you say your lawyer said to stay away from the experience angle?



To me that suggests the lawyer doesn't think there's a case based on your experience, and the officer reviewing seems to have been of the same opinion. You can go for another interview but it feels like the odds are against you.

I had a very similar CV/resume to everyone else that got approved. Like I said most people were 22/23 when they got approved, one being in March.

I wouldn’t say it’s an agency as my company had the lawyer to deal with all cases. The company has only around 16/17 employees from the UK

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 12699824)

Interpretation of the rules for processing and granting work visas in the US has tightened up quite a lot in the past couple of years, and by all accounts I have read continues to get incrementally tighter as time passes.

So it’s got that much stricter since March?

My friend got accepted and is only 22. I don’t see how he would have the experience and has the exact same qualifications as me.

I got asked 13/14 questions and he got asked 4 and said it was easy.

Originally Posted by Nutmegger (Post 12699830)

You say you are "doing this through their E-2 visa company" -- just what does that mean? And you admit to having spent a great deal of time in the US, despite being only 26, which rather dilutes their contention that you bring essential UK experience to the table. Time to create a solid CV in the UK before you try again.

Originally Posted by Nutmegger (Post 12699833)

With the same company? Perhaps the authorities are seeing a pattern there that they don't like, and are cracking down.

So how much experience is considered essential if 6 years being full time from age 20 is not enough?

Originally Posted by celticgrid (Post 12699880)

More than 6.

On the other hand, a quick peek suggests you've never mentioned exactly what this specialist skill is? Sounds like there's this "E2 company" that wants to get you a visa so they can contract you out to a different company. If everything you have said is true regarding others with less experience and exact same paperwork being accepted then the suggestion that this is a tightening of the rules sounds quite plausible. Would be interesting if another of your colleagues, ideally one of those 22-year olds, was granted a visa now, after your rejection. Do you know of any others in the pipeline?