India, Aug. 13 -- An Indian man who was rejected from the H-1B visa lottery three times has shared how he managed to continue living and working in the US through an O-1 visa.

In an as-told-to essay published in Business Insider, Sohan Sethi, a 29-year-old data analytics and AI professional at a healthcare company, shared his immigration journey. After three unsuccessful H-1B lottery attempts, Sethi turned to the O-1 visa, which is not lottery-based and requires applicants to demonstrate extraordinary ability in their field.

Sethi, who was born and raised in Mumbai, shared that he spent the first 25 years of his life in India before moving to Chicago for his master's degree. He had completed a bachelor's degree in computer engineering f...