By Ritu Singh
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 15:41:00
A Nepal-born software engineer has revealed how he walked away from a nearly Rs 2.8 crore salary at Google after failing the H-1B visa lottery four times in a row – a decision that eventually led to him securing a US green card and launching his own startup. San Francisco-based techie Pratik Karki shared his story in a viral post on X, describing years of uncertainty, family sacrifice, and the emotional toll of relying on a lottery-based immigration system.
Karki said his connection to the United States began in childhood. His father had worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Nepal after his parents separated, choosing to raise Pratik and his brother there. According to Karki, his father gave up the life he had built in America so the family could stay together. They moved into a…