{"id":1001714,"date":"2026-04-08T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001714"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:17:40","slug":"got-picked-in-h-1b-lottery-redditor-wants-to-come-back-to-india-says-feeling-weirdly-sad-and-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/08\/got-picked-in-h-1b-lottery-redditor-wants-to-come-back-to-india-says-feeling-weirdly-sad-and-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Got picked in H-1B lottery: Redditor wants to come back to India, says &#8216;feeling weirdly sad and confused&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NRI techie shared the honest feeling that even after getting picked in the recently concluded H-1B lottery, he was feeling a weird sense of sadness and confusion, and even thinking about going back to India, as the employer, which he said is a small startup, will allow him to continue the same job from India. The confession came amid a flood of disheartening posts on the American Dream coming to an end for those who did not get picked in the lottery and do not have any other option to legally stay in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NRI techie shared the honest feeling that even after getting picked in the recently concluded H-1B lottery, he was feeling a weird sense of sadness and confusion, and even thinking about going back to India, as the employer, which he said is a small startup, will allow him to continue the same job from India. The confession came amid a flood of disheartening posts on the American Dream coming to an end for those who did not get picked in the lottery and do not have any other option to legally stay in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}