{"id":1002129,"date":"2026-04-09T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002129"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:03:06","slug":"why-is-indian-techie-considering-return-to-india-despite-h-1b-lottery-selection-i-did-everything-right-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/why-is-indian-techie-considering-return-to-india-despite-h-1b-lottery-selection-i-did-everything-right-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Indian techie considering return to India despite H-1B lottery selection? \u2018I did everything right but\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tech professional from India expressed his genuine feelings of sadness and confusion, despite being selected in the recent H-1B lottery amid immigration crackdown in US. He is contemplating a return to India, as his employer, a small startup, has offered him the possibility to continue his job remotely from India.<\/p>\n<p>This revelation surfaced amidst a wave of layoffs an discouraging posts regarding the American Dream, particularly for those who were not selected in the lottery and lack alternative legal means to remain in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tech professional from India expressed his genuine feelings of sadness and confusion, despite being selected in the recent H-1B lottery amid immigration crackdown in US. He is contemplating a return to India, as his employer, a small startup, has offered him the possibility to continue his job remotely from India. This revelation surfaced amidst a wave of layoffs an discouraging posts regarding the American Dream, particularly for those who were not selected in the lottery and lack alternative legal means to remain 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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002129","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=1002129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}