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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Fake degrees the big schools are putting out to pockets massive amounts of foreign cash. Gets foreigners in the door long enough to look like serious students and the fleece the USA and take our jobs.
Indian is a lier. He had every intention of staying. Otherwise he would have went back to that p*ss hole of a country asap after graduating from his super short masters program.
The American dream is for Americans , not Indians.
Why don't they stay in their own countries and improve them; fight against a system they don't like.
After all, that is how the United States got its freedom!
Charissa, no hard feelings but don’t let the door hit you in the fanny on your way out. Enjoy your curry.
One more chance for a spot at Duke for my boys.
Then you better start saving now.
Bye-bye!
Tots and pears sweetie. Be sure to tuck a mucking fuslim under each arm on your trip back.
Americans need work, too.
Go back home and use your skills to make your country better.
It’s a start….
😭
That’s the kind of immigrants we can use. Yes. And legal too. Probably a direct correlation between legal immigrant and productivity. Yes. Actually many are hard working. So they should do it legally.
They work harder than many born here who like the freebies.
Yeah.....like many born here who also know how to game the system.
Didn’t Canada say they would take them all?
Those that came before ruined it for many Americans!!!
I’m sure she can get a job in one of the Indian scam call centers that call my house all damn day long.
MIGA.
H-1b is about white collar STEM jobs being stolen from our kids.
Agree with your statement that many of our own game the system. But they don’t tend to do it on an international level. I’m impressed by how the foreigners will go all over the world looking for advantages.
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