Experiences...

Lots of people from all over the world dream of coming to the United States of America - especially to Silicon Valley.  No doubt, Silicon Valley has one of the vibrant and entrepreneurial environments I have seen among the many places I have stayed or visited.  But coming to the USA through its broken immigration system poses multiple obstacles. Actually, immigration problems don't end when someone gets a visa to work in the USA instead it starts from there. This blog is intended to give some insights into the life in the USA for a non-immigrant who want to become an immigrant, based on the experiences I have had. People come to the United States of America for work, mainly in 2 visa categories - L1 or H1.  L1 is mainly for intra-company transfer, which means a person who is working in a US-based company in the foreign country(say India), gets transferred to USA office for a specific purpose. L1 visa is valid for 3 years with a one-time extension of 2 more years, ...

Getting lost in a big jungle for the entire day and finding your way back was one kind of an experience. I was fortunate(or should I say, unfortunate) to have had that experience a few years back. We, as a group of 7 people, decided to do a hike to Bandajje falls - gorgeous waterfalls in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, India. None of us had been to that place anytime before, and we just went through some blogs and decided to make a trip. It was 13th Oct 2006, Friday; we started our trip from Bangalore at around 10 pm. We booked a minivan to go from Bangalore to Sunkasale - dropping point from where we started the hike. It was an overnight journey through the western ghats. As we embarked on our trip, the first surprise was waiting for us. Our driver got news about the Naxal attack near western ghats through his friends. He quickly the changed the route and took a long strenuous one; however, it paid off at the end when we safely reached our hiking point in the morning. Western gha...