India, May 28 -- A Nepal-born engineer and former Google employee has shared an emotional account of his long US immigration journey, revealing how he walked away from a nearly $300,000 salary after repeatedly missing out on the H-1B visa lottery. Two years later, he and his wife finally received their green cards, and he is also running his own company.

Taking to X, San Francisco-based techie, Pratik Karki, reflected on his family's struggles, his father's sacrifices and the uncertainty that followed repeated H-1B lottery rejections while working at Google. "GOT OUR GREEN CARDS TODAY! Here's the full story, no BS, and a special thank you to my dad," Karki wrote in an X post.

The techie shared that his father had earlier worked as a pos...