{"id":943339,"date":"2025-07-03T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943339"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:36:57","slug":"why-am-i-staying-here-h-1b-visa-holders-struggle-highlights-emotional-cost-of-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/why-am-i-staying-here-h-1b-visa-holders-struggle-highlights-emotional-cost-of-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why am I staying here?\u2019: H-1B visa holder\u2019s struggle highlights emotional cost of immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Reddit post that has resonated widely, a 29-year-old H-1B visa holder opened up about the loneliness, uncertainty, and career stagnation he faces while working in the United States. Now in his second year of the H-1B program and employed at a small suburban firm sponsoring his green card, the anonymous poster described a life that feels \u201cboring and endless\u201d\u2014a repetitive cycle of work, home, and exercise, punctuated only by occasional solo travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Reddit post that has resonated widely, a 29-year-old H-1B visa holder opened up about the loneliness, uncertainty, and career stagnation he faces while working in the United States. Now in his second year of the H-1B program and employed at a small suburban firm sponsoring his green card, the anonymous poster described a life that feels \u201cboring and endless\u201d\u2014a repetitive cycle of work, home, and exercise, punctuated only by occasional solo travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943339","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}