H-1B visa holder quits US Job, chooses canada after Green card roadblocks: ‘I was completely burned out’

H-1B visa: A Reddit user recently shared their personal experience of leaving the US after eight years, including six on an H-1B visa, to move to Canada. The individual, a Chinese citizen and senior machine learning engineer at a FAANG company in the Bay Area, had an EB2 green card priority date less than a year away. Despite a lucrative job and the proximity to permanent residency, they decided to quit and relocate to Toronto.