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TOI World Desk

Rejected from H-1B lottery four times, ex-Google employee says he got a Green Card after leaving $300,000 job

A Nepal-born software engineer who left a high-paying job at Google after repeated visa setbacks has finally received his US green card.

Pratik Karki, a San Francisco-based founder, shared the news in a viral post on X, saying he and his wife had both been granted permanent residency in US after a long and difficult journey with repeated H-1B visa lottery failures.

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