The 12-step Script that an Indian Software Engineer, who arrives in the USA mostly follows
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As a student,work hard to fulfill 3 goals
(A) Pay off the Student Loan
(B) Get a job anywhere in USA
(C) Get *H1-B* approved
(most important Goal)
Simultaneously make elaborate plans to return back to India within 5 years
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H1-B approved🥳
Enjoy the influx of Green Currency. Buy a Toyota Camry or Honda Civic or Nissan Altima
Also, buy a property somewhere in India
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Invite Parents from India on Visitor Visas.
Take them on the
*Char Dhaam Yatra*-
*Niagara Falls*
*Statue of Liberty*
*Charging Bull in the Wall Street*
*White House*
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Go to India,proposals and get married in 3 weeks - Of course it's the arranged marriage way !!
Come Back to the USA with your newly-married Spouse
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During weekends and lunchtime with other Indian friends, endlessly discuss 3 topics
(A) When are you going to get your Green Card, and what is your priority date currently?
(B) How Modi is transforming India
(C) Cricket 🏏 Buy another property in India
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Buy a Home in the U.S Have 2 kids. Spend the next 15 years dropping them off to various Classes, attending Birthday parties, and visiting Home Depot for various Home projects
*Step 7 -*
Green card waiting is over.
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By the time, you are in 40s, you have saved enough Funds. The plan for returning back to India, has not worked out. Now find new ways to spend money.
Buy a Tesla or BMW or Mercedes Also your India Properties aren't lucrative anymore as INR has further depreciated against USD
So enroll into a difficult struggle of selling off the properties in India,paying a hefty *Capital Gains Tax* in India & remitting the funds back to US
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 *9*
Now comes the time for a Midlife crisis. Another shiny new Car, bigger Home, Green Card, and a High-paying job doesn't add anymore substance to your life.
So do something exotic to add flavor to ur existence. Marathon Race, intermittent fasting or a new start-up
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 *10*
In your 50s and 60s, after your kids have graduated from Stanford or MIT or Princeton, discuss how your life would have been Very different, had you returned to India 5 years after coming to the USA
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*Step 11*
With Children going away & enough time in hand, cram each year with trips to Europe, visiting Pyramids in Egypt, enjoying Turkish Delights, & visit Italy.
Start rediscovering India and share with friends back in the USA how India has improved a lot in the recent Decades
*Step 12*
When Functional Mobility decreases - ponder over the big Question - whether to
Go back to India (or)
stay in an Old Age Home or Assisted-living in USA
Indian H1B Visa-holder's life in the USA in 12 Steps
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