Elephants remind him of Walmart, LOL!
I suspect the timeline here has been re-arrranged.
If this guy is still getting sick, hasn’t figured out the toilets, and finds elephants remarkable, he has not been in India for very long. Probably a few months. If you have been in India awhile, you start to view elephants as traffic hazards more than anything remarkable.
He would not have had time to meet, woo, and marry his Indian Professor/Princess. I would wager that they met in Colorado and got married, and he moved back to India with her when she got tired of living in Mom’s basement. The relationship between a young Indian woman and her mother-in-law is usually quite strained.
Also, Chad would not have been able to get a visa on his own, since he is indigent. The Indian government prohibits immigration by people who cannot demonstrate significant assets. The last thing they want is a bunch of hippy-dippy philosophy majors running around, bitching about the toilets and clogging up the Emergency Room.
Dollars to Donuts his wife’s father bribes some local official to find problems with Chad’s visa. A few months standing in lines in various Indian government offices should be enough to convince The Chadster that Walmart really wasn’t so bad, after all.