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With current wait times, the H-1B is no longer a path to a life in the US

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.

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