{"id":945659,"date":"2025-07-11T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945659"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:03:38","slug":"10-year-eb-2-backlog-on-h-1b-visa-indian-techie-shows-canada-could-be-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/11\/10-year-eb-2-backlog-on-h-1b-visa-indian-techie-shows-canada-could-be-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year EB-2 backlog on H-1B visa? Indian techie shows Canada could be the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian tech professional, stuck in the EB2 green card backlog for over a decade, has taken to Reddit to share their mounting frustration with the U.S. immigration system\u2014and the surprising alternative they recently discovered. <\/p>\n<p>The anonymous poster, currently in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, said they\u2019ve spent the last 10 years in a repetitive cycle of visa renewals, PERM resets, and dashed hopes as the priority dates for Indian applicants moved slowly\u2014or even backward. \u201cThe stress builds up,\u201d they wrote. \u201cI avoided changing jobs because I didn\u2019t want to mess up my application. Skipped trips home because stamping felt risky. It\u2019s exhausting feeling temporary for this long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian tech professional, stuck in the EB2 green card backlog for over a decade, has taken to Reddit to share their mounting frustration with the U.S. immigration system\u2014and the surprising alternative they recently discovered. The anonymous poster, currently in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, said they\u2019ve spent the last 10 years in a repetitive cycle of visa renewals, PERM resets, and dashed hopes as the priority dates for Indian applicants moved slowly\u2014or even backward. \u201cThe stress builds up,\u201d they wrote. \u201cI avoided changing jobs because I didn\u2019t want to mess up my application. Skipped trips home because stamping [&hellip;]<\/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-945659","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\/945659","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=945659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}