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1 day agoI failed to land an H-1B visa 3 times. My work in AI helped me get an 'Einstein visa' instead.
The H-1B lottery system isn't merit-based. Each year, there's one lottery where applicants are put into a pool, and around 85,000 people are picked randomly. Twenty thousand spots are also reserved for people with a master's degree, but even though I had a master's, the odds were still low. It felt like I was playing the slots at Las Vegas. You win a few times, but you lose most of the time, and you don't have any control over it.
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