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.“GOT OUR GREEN CARDS TODAY! Here’s the full story, no BS, and a special thank you to my dad,” Karki wrote.Karki said his personal link to US goes back to his father, who previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. His father later returned to Nepal following family circumstances, choosing to raise his children there instead of continuing his career in US.According to Karki, that decision influenced his upbringing, as the family lived in modest conditions in Nepal after his father stepped away from his life in America.He said: “Going back to…