April first seems to be a big D day ..... Now no its not a repeat of my previous blog......ok then in which way.....
- ok its the world fools days...... seri seri....jus wondering if ive got something new.....hang on
- i was fooled by google............. never mind the world doesnt care
- what else........... The day every engineeerrrrr in america.........berica......stay put yar....craves for
So whats this.....This is the day on which the H1B application process starts.Long Long ago so long ago till 2005, there want any mad rush.you could start filling the application from April 1 and it could go on till even the month of august or september and u can still get ur H1B slot.But now from 2006...phew!!!!!!!!!! oh my GOD what a rush.....
The number of applications against the number of visas granted is almost triple.This year in 2007 on the first day of opening they received around 3 lakh applications for 75k visa slots.But this is for the open quota......I dont care...or we dont care......We are doing our Masters ...so we dont come in that quota claimed some of my friends and me..... we got the blow jsu in time...guess we forgot it was kali yugam......the masters quota was over in a weeks time... whattttttttt ....25000 MS engineers from American schools applied for H1B..The numebrs were making us dizzy...........goshhh!!! never even though so many MS engineers would graduate each eyar.....Others who ahdnt completely finished their MS had to actually opt for the less-probability-to-get open slot...........
The student community was astounded, shocked and frozen........
Now ok, we are engineers yar..so how do we solve the problem......The congress has to increase the numebr of visa slots......But why would it? Why should it? Because it need human brain power to keep its economy moving...Now was that convincing...when we were discussing among ourselves about the various options to get the problem solve....The congress came up with "THE" solution.......
Whatsss that?????????????
LOTTERY
LOTTERY????? did I hear it right.....is it the same system that was banned in my state of tamilnadu by the government.....Yes it was....The applications of all the peole who have applied in the open quota is going to go through a process of lottery....Its was jsut not enough for lady luck to smile at u..but shes gota be madly in love with u for you to win the lottery.....
An engineers fate decided this way.....Whats the big deal say some???????
Ofcourse the congress got its way and this ahs been established as a standard.The lottery ofcourse took place and some got some dint.....I saw many of my friends going back home....(lucky for them I thought...ofcourse this is personal)...But they dint share the same feeling......
For those who have completed the MS degree completely it was not a cake walk but it was not that hard.They atleast had some preferences....But who knows the congress can by all means introduce the lottery system for the MS quota if it exceeds limits....wait now dont call me pessimistic...am being practical....
Now after going through all tis grueling thoughts one thing that comes to me is why?????
why should I still pursue this mad rush...???????????
why dont I just finish my masters and come home to amma and appa??????
I dont know the answers for all this...I cant tell till the day comees................ofcourse hopefuly less than a year from now I will know if am gona play the CONGRESS LOTTERY or go back to my sweet motherland......
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