Trending on Quora - What's your take on the H1B visa

June 12, 2017

It's a total waste. Waste of your efforts, career and professional ambitions.
It's not how it looks. It can't give you stability. It is meant for those who want to earn quick money but have absolutely no love for their career.
It's a broken visa program and needs immediate attention from the US government.
Many people every year are wasting their lives trying to get this visa. After 5 years, you will be as frustrated as anybody like me who has done 5 years on it.
There is no better time to look for other options than to wait in line to get this visa.
It doesn't lead to a healthier and happier life.
Your life will be as uncertain as a dog looking for food but couldn't get it in an empty locked room.
You will not be able to focus on important things in your life. There is a constant sword like thing hanging over your head all the time.
You can't do a second job when you are working on this visa.
You can't start a profitable company. Or else you will violate your H-1B visa rules.
You are always trapped because if you let it go, you would feel that you are letting go of your best chance of settling down in US.
It would not lead to Permanent Residency or Green Card in the near future. It may appear like you are just there in getting a Green Card, but it will take ages to get a Green Card through this visa. At least, if you are an Indian national.
You will have no respect from your colleagues who are citizens or Green Card holders.
Your counterpart in any other country working on the same profile is doing far better than compared to what you do on this visa here in US.
You are not taken seriously.
It is an overrated visa.
It is good for some who are well settled in a certain company but they are very few people who will not usually come out to Quora to read all this or comment.

I am still on this visa and trying to get rid of it as soon as I can.

I have written this several times and will write again, had I knew that this is how it will turn out after 5 years on this visa, I would have never ever chosen it. I just want my 5 years of life back. No shame in admitting your fault.

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