A Nepal-born software engineer, who left a high-paying job at Google after repeated visa failures, has finally got his US green card.San Francisco-based founder Pratik Karki shared the news in a viral post on“Got our green cards today! Here’s the whole story, no BS, and special thanks to my dad,” Karki wrote.Karki said his personal connection to the US stems from his father, who previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. His father later returned to Nepal due to family circumstances and decided to raise his children there rather than continue his career in the US.According to Karki, that decision influenced his upbringing, as the family lived in modest circumstances in Nepal after his father left the United States.He said: “The only way out was to go back to Nepal. They left everything they had built for us in America. We moved to my grandparents’ house in a small room in the attic.”Years later, Karki moved to the US and pursued a career in tech, eventually joining Google in a well-paid engineering role. He said his compensation package was about $300,000 a year.However, their long-term ability to remain in the US depended on the H-1B visa lottery, a system that randomly selects applicants for work permits. Karki said that he failed four times while working at Google.“Two years ago I was rejected for the fourth time from the H1B lottery at Google,” he wrote.He added, “I sat with the email for a long time before telling anyone.”He said that repeated rejections led him to face the prospect of leaving the United States, potentially being separated from his wife and the life he had built in San Francisco.“I was thinking about packing everything up. Try Canada, or go back to Nepal, and live thousands of miles away from the person I love,” he wrote.Karki later decided to leave Google at the age of 27, leaving “an annual salary of approximately $300K”. He began exploring startup ideas in San Francisco, where he co-founded Anthromind with fellow founder Mannat. The company focuses on building what Karki describes as “the definitive human data layer for frontier labs and enterprise AI teams.”During this period, he also applied for an O-1 visa, which is granted to individuals with exceptional ability. He said he prepared the application himself using evidence from his career, including hackathon judging and published writing, and the petition was approved.“The case was approved,” he wrote.Subsequently, Karki and his wife finally received their green cards, ending years of immigration uncertainty.“Today my wife and I both have green cards,” he wrote.He said: “Two immigrants, one company, one kitchen table conversation that changed everything.”He dedicated the result to his father, saying: “Baba, this is for you, thanks for all your sacrifices and lessons.”