When Wen-Hsing Huang moved to the United States in 2022 for graduate school, he was chasing the American Dream.
As a top graduate from Taiwan’s National Central University, he aimed to work in Big Tech, earn a high salary, and eventually become an entrepreneur.
Like many international students, he viewed the US as a land of opportunity, a place to build a career and secure a future.
But after two years in the US, working for Amazon and riding through visa challenges, Huang realised that the dream he had envisioned was no longer his.
Instead of following the path dictated by visa rules and economic uncertainty, he is now planning to return to Taiwan to take control of his future and pursue entrepreneurship on his own terms.
‘Living life at the mercy of a visa is hard’
Huang’s ini