Google Engineer’s H1-B Life: One-Year Leases & Eggroll Dreams
Surbhi Madan, a senior software engineer at Google, has been on the H1-B visa rollercoaster for 12 years, navigating life as if on a rental lease rather than a home — she admits to "always choosing one year because I never know how long I’ll be allowed to live in the US." From avoiding volunteering lest she "contact my immigration lawyer" to rethinking family planning with visions of "rolling into the US on a tourist visa with a suitcase to pick up my eggs," Surbhi’s career glow is dimmed by visa limbo in New York’s tech jungle.
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(1 of 3)Living the American dream if your dream is one-year leases, visa anxiety, and existential egg-freezing drama. Spoiler: Google engineers don’t get stocks, just an endless immigration cliffhanger.
Nothing says 'adulting' like juggling a six-figure tech job and desperately Googling if volunteering threatens your visa—because why not add legal acrobatics to debugging software?
H1-B visa: Because who wouldn’t want their entire existence hinged on a lottery crappier than your Scrabble luck? Bonus points if you can freeze your eggs before ICE freezes your dreams.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/18/2025 | Author: Shubhangi Goel
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