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[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian-American couple Brij Agarwal and Sunita Agarwal have donated $5.5 million to expand healthcare services in Texas, including support for St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital and a new primary care clinic.

Funny how stories like this rarely go viral. The same people obsessed with pushing anti-India narratives won't be making podcasts or headlines about Indian-Americans funding hospitals, improving healthcare access, and giving back to the communities that helped them succeed.

The donation is the largest single gift in the hospital's history, with its main patient tower and pavilion now being named in the Agrawals' honour.

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@SouthernMB82 @ShadesOfBlueAn1 It’s not automatic , so if they pass the labor test and worked for 5 years and paid taxes it should be good right ?

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@QuinnyPig One could argue that since companies are using it to increased the productivity, they should instead be reducing the price since they are spending less :P

[Robert Webber @bobwebberlawyer]

I do agree that the big tech companies and corporate America should be more vocal about the unjust “pause” policies but I think a lot of people from India on H-1Bs find it a bit rich when those subject to the pause policies cry out but sit on their hands about the “per country” limits of the Visa Bulletin.

The pause policies are bad. I oppose them.

But Indians have been paused, as a practical matter, on getting green cards for a decade and everyone from all those nationalities were like - “sucks to be you.”

[PhysiciansOnPause @MD_pause]

I personally know more than 20 physicians who have already moved, or are actively in the process of moving, to Canada: surgeons, cardiologists, ICU physicians, and other highly accomplished doctors with strong research portfolios and elite training.

For many of them, the only real barrier in America was country of birth, or the exhaustion of living under constant uncertainty.

When a country makes its most skilled, vetted, and productive professionals feel disposable, it should not be surprised when another country turns them into an asset.

[ShadesOfBlueAndRed @ShadesOfBlueAn1]

@tropeista @KellyIsRightTX Here:

[ShadesOfBlueAndRed @ShadesOfBlueAn1]

Why blame Indians, when you can thank AC21?

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@deedydas @ShadesOfBlueAn1 something i thought you would find interesting

[ShadesOfBlueAndRed @ShadesOfBlueAn1]

Well if you renew your license at the DMV, does it become a new license/driver on the road?

only indians have to keep renewing because they cant convert to greencards & citizenship unlike other nationals

57% seems a big number, but you have to remember H1B is a stupid lottery. Its not allocated based on education, salary etc. Just min requirements, then pure luck. I am surprised the number is not higher.

That's changed though in most recent h1b selections, priority was given to those with higher wages. Data is not out yet.

Having said that, if you look around other high skilled immigration systems in the world where its points based, share of Indians is in the range of 45-50%, so the 57% is not way off the mark.

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@SpeakSamuel Also Dropbox for Visa processing was also removed adding more processing time

[Sam Peak 🇺🇸💡 @SpeakSamuel]

Many people are focused on the high-profile changes to the H-1B program (weighted lottery, prevailing wage levels, Project Firewall, etc). But I think the most prominent, underdiscussed change was that the White House made it harder to renew the visas that allow them to re-enter the country.

I just received a text from somebody on H-1B status that they had to wake up at 3:30 am to book a consular appointment for August 2027. Wait times at the Indian consular offices are usually ridiculous, but visa holders could circumvent these backlogs by going to U.S. embassies with less bureaucratic strain (like Canada) to renew their visas.

The White House ended this practice last year. Now, if an Indian H-1B needs to travel for work or they have a family emergency in their home country, they won't be able to seamlessly depart and return.

[ShadesOfBlueAndRed @ShadesOfBlueAn1]

@BhoebeBuffay you are misunderstanding what indian immigrants are conveying

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@bobwebberlawyer @daniel_s_larson i remember that deal for DACA was great . But somehow democratic party seems to want everything and feel that its always all or nothing.
I feel similarly for the border bill that Biden negoitated with republicans. Loads of good stuff but then it ended up as others.

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@bobwebberlawyer @JBlunt1018 Both the parties don’t want to give the other side any win, that is passing any law . Supporting other side is defeat in their opinion

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@anil_am22 You spend more time in validation and support

One should need extensive test suite and expertise on the domain to allow ai to generate code. See Cloudflare recent blog https://t.co/e6TbGAz70V

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@anil_am22 AI is just accelerating it by 10x or more

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@anil_am22 Life time jobs has been slowly vanishing for a long time. Earlier companies used to train teams and move to new positions when project/product ends. Now its layoff the person and open positions for new project and it’s on the person to crack interview and get placed

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@bobwebberlawyer @immigrationgirl My personal opinion is that democrats don’t want to do anything for legal immigration in the off chance they are misunderstood by the undocumented immigrants . So they push things to the very end. Not providing eads after i140 odds another such case

[pradheep shrinivasan @ShPradheep]

@gsiskind Here is the problem i see , both democrats and republicans have not Appetite to fix the problem.

Trump did not allow biden to pass an immigration bill and i see democrats playing the same playbook again. This has repeated several times before too.

[Banias Law @BaniasLaw]

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