Hello blinders, I am in confusion stage and want to get some inputs from fellow blinders. I relocated from India office to SFO office on L1-B visa. I moved here with my family last year(2018). Short story: My wife was topper in school and college. She secured a government public bank job. She worked for 5+years as bank officer. She took 2years(as it is govt, they sanctioned) leave and moved to US along with me. Now time has come for us to take a decision that impact both of our career and life whether we should move back or stay in USA ? She has to make decsion by May 2020 and has to resign from her job if we decided stay here, we are confusing situation because 1.My wife and kid (6years girl) like here 2.School and life is good. 3.Good career options compare to India. 4.I can relocate to India office, but work is not that great there and lot more career options within Salesforce USA itself. but we don't know when we will get green card and not sure whether we will be forced to moved back to India. She will have to find job again in India if forced to move after couple years due to the visa issues. She is interested to work here, but It is like starting a fresh for her again. We both are not from financially rich family and we just started saving from last 3 years only. Applied for 1-140 this year, hopefully by mid of Jan 2020, I will get the receipt for I-140 application. My H1-B application picked up in lottery this year and approved, soon I will be on H1-B. My status will be H1-B approved + I-140 approved. TC : 240k+
High risk means high reward
Can your wife do a masters in CS and work in software ? Are your children US citizens ?
She can do, CS course would be problematic for her as she had commerce background. Yes, We are Indians.
Does your children have US citizenship ?
Unless you have clear path to GC return back while you can. GC backlog is very stressful with lot of uncertainty and aging out children.
Stay in the U.S. some people die to get here (literally, aka migrants at southern border). You have a great job and great salary. You can always go back to India, you cannot always come back to U.S.
You need to consider your kids. Will you be able to get GC before they turn 21? If not, what's is your back up plan for them when they turn 21 and have to leave the US?
Yes, takes at least 10 years to get a GC. how old are they now?
Girl 6 years only and she is going to public school. Sorry typos.
Make babies in US. And they can apply for your citizenship later. Maybe its more faster way to GC 🤷♂️
Isn't that chain migration and something that trump wants to get rid off?
How did you get chance to move to US ? I am also very much interested to move to US . It looks like it’s not easy to move hyd to US
Its really important that ur wife finds a job here, else she will get bored, frustrated and depressed. It will just go downhill from there. If she is passionate and interested in pursuing a Masters Degree, then she should start on that journey asap. Based on ur post, she should not have a problem getting into a decent college and find a job. If she is not interested in pursuing a degree and finding a job from scratch, just move back ... trust me its NOT worth the $$ Heartbroken and speaking from personal experience
I would recommend to take govt job in India and settle there... If u don’t go you might regret later part of your life as stress is less
Tell your wife to get an MBA. That would 1) Give your Extra time to decide . 2) She can get a dope job post MBA. Just a suggestion
We have only 5months take that decision, do you think it is worth to staying here and take that risk?
If you don’t want to go back to India, Apply for Canadian PR. By next five months you will know if you’ll get it or not.