{"id":963934,"date":"2025-09-24T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963934"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:47:31","slug":"consistency-better-than-lottery-how-bengaluru-techie-landed-o-1-visa-after-failed-h-1b-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/consistency-better-than-lottery-how-bengaluru-techie-landed-o-1-visa-after-failed-h-1b-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Consistency better than lottery&#8217;: How Bengaluru techie landed O-1 visa after failed H-1B attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru-born tech professional, now working at IBM in California, has shared how he secured an O-1 visa after being rejected three times for the H-1B lottery. Tanush Sharanarthi, 26, said his visa approval came as recognition of his \u201cextraordinary ability\u201d in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>What challenges did he face with the H-1B visa?<br \/>\nSharanarthi described his earlier struggles on LinkedIn: \u201cFrom three years of striking out in the H-1B lottery\u2026 to finally being approved for the O-1 \u2018Einstein\u2019 visa in the field of Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru-born tech professional, now working at IBM in California, has shared how he secured an O-1 visa after being rejected three times for the H-1B lottery. Tanush Sharanarthi, 26, said his visa approval came as recognition of his \u201cextraordinary ability\u201d in artificial intelligence. What challenges did he face with the H-1B visa? Sharanarthi described his earlier struggles on LinkedIn: \u201cFrom three years of striking out in the H-1B lottery\u2026 to finally being approved for the O-1 \u2018Einstein\u2019 visa in the field of Artificial Intelligence.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963934","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=963934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}