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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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Here is a list of world-class Indian software:
But, of course, we Americans don't count.
If she’s here on a work visa, that’s non-immigrant status, similar to a tourist visa.
“Hey, marcus, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.”
Yet some here on FR defend the H1bs as necessary to break unions and drive down the minimum wage.
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Posted on 10/1/2025, 3:51:40 AM by Jim Robinson
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marcus, you’re not on the Q4 board. Moose, Rocco - help freeploadusmaximus find his checkbook.
If the brilliance of the Indian mind far surpasses the American, why is so much of India poverty stricken at a level not seen in the US.
They should take their brain power back to the homeland and fix it. The US won’t suffer if their own citizens take fill their H1 jobs.
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It was intended to provide a mechanism to allow American companies to hire foreign PhD students graduating with pioneering skills in emerging technologies or to bring in world class foreign talent
Ain’t America great?
Even foreigners are allowed to feel entitled here.
whether or not necessary, a 4-year computer science degree would not only cost a minimum of $100k, but also factor in cost of living while simultaneously not making a living
H-1B is institutionalized abuse of taxpaying citizens who are held to different standards. A counter-intuitive correction of institutionalized abuse was the importing of Japanese vehicles in the 80s that forced the US auto industry into making better, competitive products
Thanks for providink me a platform to promote the Freep-A-Thons and shame freeploading deadbeats like yourself.
Maybe we’ll get ‘er done quicker this way, and take some stress off Jim Robinson and the rest of the Robinsons.
You’d think those brilliant Indian geniuses would be able to figure out how to fish out all the dead bodies from the Ganges river instead of leaving them bobbing up and down until they eventually wash up on shore.
My comment didn’t concern H1B.
I know some Americans whose hopes were dashed around the turn of the century when companies imported hordes of Indians to replace those expensive Americans.
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