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Rejected 4 times in H-1B lottery, Nepal techie quit Google’s Rs 2.8-crore job and built startup
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Rejected 4 times in H-1B lottery, Nepal techie quit Google’s Rs 2.8-crore job and built startup

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Walking away from a Rs 2.8-crore job at Google to start his own company and eventually secure a US green card, Nepal-born techie Pratik Karki has a story that reads like a dream. Just a few years ago, he feared he might be forced to leave behind the life he had built in the United States with his wife and return to Nepal. In the post, he revealed that two years ago, he was rejected from Google’s H-1B visa lottery for the fourth time. The repeated setbacks left him considering a move to Canada or even returning to Nepal. “I was looking at having to pack everything up. Try Canada, or go back to Nepal, and live thousands of miles away from the person I love. That night I came home and I was freaking out. My wife and I sat at the kitchen table and talked for a couple of hours. She told me we had enough saved to stay afloat, and that this was my dream after all. That was all the conviction I needed,” he wrote. At 27, Karki walked away from a Google job that paid around Rs 2.8 crore a year.…

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