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With current wait times, the H-1B is no longer a path to a life in the US
The biggest impact on family and life is living with uncertainty. Losing one's job could mean having your entire family having to uproot and move back to India leaving the life they created behind.
Upwards of 500,000 skilled guest workers from India currently in the US on an H1-B visa and having their Green Card (permanent residency) being processed got a shock last week when news broke that the Trump administration is considering ending the H1-B visa at six years instead of the current indefinite extension when the Green Card is being processed. If the rule is changed, it will result in self-deportation of more than 5,00,000 Indians and more than 1.5 million foreign guest workers. But it is not the end of the world. Vikram Rangnekar, a Silicon Valley H1-B is among those who chose to opt out of the tortured wait for an American Green Card and reinvent himself outside the US, a decision he is so chuffed with that he even started a website to chronicle his experience and encourage others.