The story of Wen-Hsing Huang, a 25-year-old engineer working at Amazon, can bring closure to many struggling with the present H-1B chaos. As told to Business Insider, Huang's experience of working in the US, living a life depending on a visa, is of self-realization that the so-called American Dream is not staying in the US but to build something in the freedom of one's home country and yet reach an international customer base. For Huang, it's Taiwan, from where he studied to get a spot at the University of Illinois. "I arrived on an F-1 student visa in 2022, when there were mass tech layoffs at Meta, Twitter, and many other companies. Finding a summer internship was really difficult. Usually, that's the path to a full-time job, but I had no offers," Huang said. He was lucky to have la
'Not anymore': Amazon techie says he was obsessed with US, green card; rejected twice for H

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