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Date: 07/09/2021

United States Embassy Non-Immigrant Visa Unit Re: Travel purpose under National Interest Exception

Dear Sir/Madam:

Please accept this letter requesting a Travel purpose under National Interest Exception Interest Exception for {name} for the Technology critical infrastructure sector. {name} recently traveled to India in order to complete necessary H-1B stamping, as well as to get married and take care of his parents as multiple family members were affected by COVID-19. Prior to cancellation, he had booked return ticket on --, as per Airlines and CDC rules he went for RT-PCR test before departure and got Covid 19 detected, so he cancelled his travel and recovered totally. {name} Marri meets the National Interest Exception requirements given his critical role in the Health Insurance company Independent Health Association Inc. On behalf of our company, I formally request that he is allowed prompt re-admission to the United States. Below is the necessary information to process his exception:

• Last name: • First name: {name}Date of birth: • Place of birth: • Country of citizenship: • Passport number: • Visa Number and Category:

{name} has been employed at Health Insurance company Independent Health Association Inc, since April 2020 as a Applications Administrator. Independent Health Association Inc is a not-for-profit organization that provides a range of health insurance and related products to more than 365,000 members primarily in western New York (it's licensed in 35 states). IH's plans include HAS, HMO, POS, PPO, indemnity, and Medicare Advantage plans. It also provides dental and vision coverage, as well as coverage for Medicaid recipients. The firm offers a variety of community- based health and fitness programs including it Encompass 65 and Silver Sneakers wellness programs for seniors. The company's Healthy Options program helps local restaurants design healthy menus. {name} serves in a critical role in the Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions project and administrating few Critical Health and Pharmaceuticals Applications. He is a valuable member of Engineering Department

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which is currently at a critical staffing level of employees. Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, {name} has additionally been working as a Applications Administrator SME on some of the key projects like, Reveal, Sterling File Gateway, SAS, Cognos, PBD RX Drug and various other internal projects.

• Reveal - REVEAL’s Web-based viewer displays PDF files in their original, graphically-rich format, or in text format. You can toggle between views depending on your preference. This versatility also allows you to search, download and print a PDF report or voucher in the format you desire.

• Sterling File Gateway - The IBM Sterling File Gateway solution provides an intelligent, centralized gateway for managing edge-based file transfers. It enables you to manage large file volumes of any protocol or format type, and provides numerous management capabilities, visibility and transparency. Under this model IH personnel and systems can be either Producers or Consumers depending on the direction of the file transfer, thus the inbound and outbound file transfer workflows are joined into one.

• Cognos - Everyone in your organization can use IBM Cognos BI to view or create business reports, analyze data, and monitor events and metrics so that they can make effective business decisions. IBM Cognos BI integrates the following business intelligence activities in one Web-based solution.

• Splunk - Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine generated data gathered from websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. which make up your IT infrastructure in business.

• SAS - SAS is a command-driven software package used for statistical analysis and data visualization. It is available only for Windows operating systems. It is arguably one of the most widely used statistical software packages in both industry and academia.

• PBD RX Drug - Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions® (PBD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Independent Health, helps companies gain greater control over the

prescription drug component of their health care program.

Given {name} level of skills and expertise in driving the Applications Programming, Independent Health Association, Inc is experiencing an undue burden in his absence. This role is important in running towards to Applications Production Installations/Upgrades and critical to perform and validate the Health Care Applications, some of Production websites will not be accessible out of the United States of America. Since I am working from India, I was restricted to access to Production’s websites(servers) organization security policies. {name}

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{name}qualifies for National Interest Exemption as he is a Critical Technology Worker based on the following points (Note: Taken Directly from CISA Guidelines):

{name} role is critical to the daily operations at, Independent Health Association, Inc and This role is important in running towards to Applications Production Installations/Upgrades and critical to perform and validate the Health Care Applications.Therefore, we look forward to the rapid re-admission of Madhusudhan Reddy Marri to the United States to resume employment with Independent Health Association Inc, and we respectfully request that you kindly extend all due courtesies. Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me at ‘email address: ’ or via phone at .