H1B and green card process for backlogged countries can be compared to a few of the mythological stories. To reach there someone went through H1B which is a process.
H1B a temporary worker visa provided lasts 6 months. and during this time a company was sponsor the employee for a green card. Green Card in employment based category are divided into many. The employer sponsored ones are EB1B, EB2, EB3. Each of the preference numbers in the employment based green card has a country wise limit. So most populous countries in the planet hit their limit while a coworker born elsewhere could get green card faster. Since country of birth is not in a person’s hands. Unless your parent was Ravana who made the stars and planets align so his son Indrajith was born in the exact time and date and location that he wanted.
Narada’s H1B
In one of the Narada’ story. After much discussion about who is the greatest devotee and how a mortal life on the earth is seen from above. Vishnu makes Narada transport into the earth. In a city of the ages, he gets employment, gets married, has children and lives a happy life, until a flood comes and wipes off the entire town with all the people. And Narada remained, returning to Vishnu, he understood how life on the earth is temporary and how it is good and bad and during his time there, he never thought of Vishnu nor pray. Thus is the story of life for all the mortals. Which particularly connects with H1B work visa, or anyone living the life of employment.
Trishanku‘s Heaven and H1B
H1B with I-140 approved with 180 days passed, so that I -140 based priority date persists may be equated to Trishanku’s heaven. While you are eligible to work forever, there must be an employer. You transcend to the USA as a resident for all other purposes, buying house, doing job, living, pay taxes, access schools for children and so on, limited to work, but unlimited access to spend or invest. It is kind of a compromise formula for the backlogged Indian in Green Card who will never see the Green Card. Sorry to Trishanku if this comparison is incorrect. Apart from the 60 days of grace period on loss of employment and limited number of working hours per H1B Visa rules pertinent to the sponsoring company, the status offers benefits and sometimes these may outweigh other available opportunities.
Bali‘s unreachable mountain (ബാലികേറാമല)
In another mythological example, in Ramayana, Rama and Lakshmana go in search of Sita in the forest. In their they are trying to reach and speak to Sugreeva, who stays atop the Bali’s unreachable mountain. The greatness of the Bali is that even though Sugreeva stays on it, the name still goes to Bali. So with that blessing Sugreeva is sage from Bali. However, he is afraid of these two strangers approaching the mountain, and to Rama and Lakshmana it seemed that the more they walked towards the mountain, the mountain became farther to reach. While not a direct correlation.The approach to Green Card through H1B is sort of a mountain unreachable by Bali.
The real process of H1B to Green Card
After 2 years and 10 months in a company. They could not get my green card petition in. Because I was in OPT, STEM OPT and they sponsored H1B so why sponsor yet another petition?! Legally, they could do it in parallel. Practically, it depends on the manager who wants to judge and review the performance. Because of their incapability to support green card process, one may choose to go with another company.
In another company with 2 years and 9 months of experience, after much chagrin and futile argument, and absolutely unsociable behavior developed by this system’s effect and aftershock of layoff but the venue of which only came due to acceptance of expression, right to freedom of expression, blatant disregard to fear and consequences and some amount of pending misery. All added up to getting to remain true, honest and right to the self. A system cannot be that bad. Especially, when it boasts to come from a so called first world country and first world employer. However, after much stain. I 140 for EB3 green card petition gets approved and an H1B life is extended based on that for another 3 years. And no one discussed about the green card backlog in this category based on country of birth. The legal team did not consider my profile for any other, there is only one, EB1, category.
The technique apparently is that people who want to stay can stay. This is not slavery. There is a choice to break the contract of employment. There is no choice to build anything better. There is no way forward. There will be no support. There is no innovation. Do the job or don’t do it. A job in which somebody grabbed me by collar, somebody said I am taking all the money from salary to my home (country). And I would have to argue with green card or US citizen co workers knowingly fully well that if things go south, they could stay in the country of work in the usa, to find another employer. While I would have my counter started. A counter of 60 days. And here the work forever life begins with the end in mind. A life of 60 days. Some insects live only for days, some microbes for hours.
Interestingly, in a cookery show by Lakshmi Nair, she said during the multi step cooking, all this we are doing for some taste, and we keep food in mouth only for a few moment, lasting no longer than a minute. But tastes leave a lasting memory.
This is true for all tastes, the good and bad. And we go through several steps and processes just to arrive at a taste, a certain taste. If it fails, we try all over, if we have strength and patience. Or else we drop the idea. And declare that we are no good. Sometimes, yet some other time, there may be someone who likes the taste, though we may not, as the cook, as the experimenter, we have choices, to drop or to continue.
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