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Posted on 10/01/2025 11:26:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Apoorva arrived in New York in 2018 on an H-1B visa, fresh from one of India’s top graduate schools and brimming with hope of building a life in the United States. She soon joined an architecture firm, eager to contribute her skills and establish roots.
But her dreams were quickly dashed — because Apoorva, like many other immigrants on an H-1B, soon experienced some visa-related issues. She recalled being stuck at her minimum wage architecture job for over three years. Changing jobs on an H-1B visa is famously difficult, and often means enduring months of bureaucratic limbo and steep United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fees.
Apoorva eventually secured a second job with a higher starting salary but that had its own costs as well.
“My second employer froze my salary for three years citing immigration costs of around $8,000 to $9,000 annually, which ultimately they asked me to cover myself,” Apoorva, who shared only her first name, said.
Apoorva was not planning to go back to India but visa uncertainties made her question her future in the country.
“At every point of my seven-year H-1B journey, I have questioned whether it was worth spending decades waiting for a green card via this path and enduring all the mental battles, the career stagnation and the debilitating limbo that came with it — or if it was just better to move back to India,” she said.
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Adios, Amiga! ... and ya’ll don’t come back, ya’ hear!
They're practising their "Ukrainian Marines to Krynky" imitation...
What Lyman doink?
The feel good story of the day.
It’s time for the Indian hordes to go home. They never should have been here in the first place.
LOL!
Making things up.
The CEO’s of a bunch of US tech companies are from India -including some of the biggest ones.
Don’t they need architects in India? There’s over a billion of them. You’d think they’d need buildings there, too.
Most of them over on H1Bs. Indians are good at internal politics and screwing over colleagues if nothing else.
If any class of workers needed the protection of a union it was STEM workers. Unfortunately there is not a STEM union. STEM workers wages were depressed and they were replaced over the last 30 years because of ZERO bargaining power.
If any group needed a lobby to fight unfair work visas it was STEM workers.
Well, now you have your answer. See? The Universe always provides an answer.
They should go to India and make it greet for once. MIG ( no again ).
The media’s standard template reads:”xxx sparks exodus fears amongst xxx immigrants”.
Where the first “xxx” can be anything instituted by logical, intelligent beings, such as Trump & associates. The second “xxx” is for whichever set of folks are most convenient for our loathsome and bottom of the IQ barrel media. Yes, they are the BOTTOM, even below AOC and her Muzzie dork women.
“Don’t they need architects in India?”
It’s immoral to strip mine foreign workers who are needed in their own country.
As someone who worked the last 30 years as a software engineer, I can attest to that!
Not much to go on, but she does not appear to be a stamped Architect in NYS.
So she’s working under supervision of a licensed Architect.
Is there that much demand for Architects that are not stamped? Apparently?
Oh, boo-hoo.
Get out of my country.
Exactly.
😄
Gimme-grants or illegals?
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