Posted on 10/03/2025 10:42:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 33-year-old Shreya Mishra Reddy, a technical program manager at Visa based in Austin. Business Insider has verified Reddy's employment, immigration status, and unsuccessful H-1B attempts. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
I never dreamed of living in the US. I grew up in India and wanted to stay close to my parents.
In December 2021, I moved to the States for a Master's program in engineering management at Duke University. After I graduated in 2022, I got a job at Visa as a technical program manager in 2023.
I wanted to keep working and studying in the US, but I tried to get a H-1B visa three times and was unsuccessful.
When I read about the Trump administration's plans to introduce a $100,000 fee for employers sponsoring new H-1B petitions, it felt like my situation was getting worse and worse.
My student work authorization, which allows me to be employed in the US, is expiring in January. I planned to return to India and reapply for an H-1B, but with the new $100,000 fee, it feels like there's no hope left.
Before moving to the US, I worked at Tata Consultancy Services in Bengaluru for five and a half years. I was happy with my career, but I wanted to add to my professional profile by studying abroad. I was inspired by colleagues and schoolmates who moved to Europe and the US, and I was so happy that I was accepted by Duke, an Ivy Plus school.
I went to the US on an F-1 student visa. As a STEM student, I could spend an additional three years in the US through Optional Practical Training, which is a type of work authorization.
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Good, let’s train Americans to do these jobs.
“Worry” no more! It IS over! Now for you to move on to have dreams elsewhere
“Learning to code” is easy, and not worth very much.
Learning to understand other people’s code in order to update it or fix it is what’s valuable.
Sounds like he doesn’t care about the United States, and made very good use of what we had to offer. No harm no foul.
Now hire Americans.
Reminds of the scene in Goodfellas when tommy kept asking Henry what’s so funny? what, Im here to make you laugh? I’m here to amuse you?
Same principle. These immigrants think the American Taxpayer is here to make things better for them. What? America is here to support you? We’re here to give you stuff?
Get outta here......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9rSwrsMHw
American dreams are for Americans. Sorry you had to find out this way.
Gee, if this continues companies may have to hire and pay American workers instead of cheaper foreign workers.
Oh, Ok...
Visa can pay the 100K.
If you like your desi you can keep your desi.
You should not be able to get in merely to be an engineering manager even if your employer is willing to pay $100,000.
I think these visas run for 6 years so I’d like to see how the numbers look after that many years. Hopefully it ends 99% or these visas all together. We really don’t need people from india or China in America . We have enough problems we don’t need to import more
You notice how these third worlder’s (yes, India is third world) ALWAYS dream about getting the hell out of their country so they can infest Western countries. Why is that?
What is it about Western countries that third world citizens always dream of escaping to? They NEVER dream of going to another third world country, it’s ALWAYS a predominant White Christian country they want to flock to.
You NEVER hear of Indians wanting to immigrate to Africa, the Middle East, Russia, China, the Philippines or Japan.
Precisely! No gratitude for what she already got. No respect for our laws. No recognition that India has the same rules, and worse.
The scumbag sense of entitlement is off the chart
I have nothing against this woman or against foreign students, etc.
However, if you’ve ever met foreigners working in the US, they are world champions when it comes to using every possible advantage they can find, often lying about stuff to get what they want.
And when they can’t get in the country they want, they bounce around to Europe or Australia or whatever system offers them a passport that will get the job done.
OK people, but world class users as well.
Get out of my country.
It apparently was your American exploitation event that got squashed.
This is going to be good. This thread may go on for days, in a way the poster had not anticipated.
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