H1B, H4 Visa

Hi All
Thanks to Immihelp which made me to get my visa on first attempt itself. I got the VISA around one year back. Now you may think that why this guy is posted his experience now? I will clarify.

Friends, whenever I read the experiences in this forum, generally I am seeing the quotes as 'OH, GOD, Finally I got the visa'and "Luck is not favoured me to get the VISA" etc.

What I am trying to say is, donot give that much importance to this. Its only one opportunity in life.
I too had given this much importance and thought that, getting VISA will bring tremendous change in life, which is not true.

I think, most of the persons are moved from district headquarters to cities in INDIA to do software job. But by keeping away from native place, people will usually earn around 10 times more in city than in district [for example 5 thousand in district and 50k in cities]
But moving away from India city to USA will wonot help you to earn that much amount with the decreasing of dollar value on day to day.

If people are coming from consultancy, then on an average, it will take 2 months time to get the job
They wonot pay any flight expenses.
On first one year, people genrally get around 3300 dollars to 4000 dollars in hand.
If you are batchelor, then there is chance to save more money for example around 2k, But if you are with family then , monthly expenses will come around 2800 dollars in areas like Boston, NewYork etc.
If you planned any India trip once per two years, then every saving will go off.
Now a days because of demand and supply, most of the clients are not allowed to bill for extra hours.
Till now I worked for 3 clients, amont them two clients are not having coffee machine also because of cost cutting.
In general on bench period no one will pay the salary.

Yes, I too agree that roads, hotels every thing will be clean and good. But at the same time remember that you have to do every work from bathroom cleaning to car tire change [We did painting also for our house. . People who spent around 10 hours on office and doing this work means horrible. We can contract it to others, but it is too expensive.

But there are so many positive points
1. health care is good. Insurance will directly pay to the pharmacy. No need to run for blood and oxyzen on emergency like in India. with in 10 minutes emergency will respond
2. We will always get seat in train/bus [opposit in India , not only in Bangalore buses, but also in the software comapny runned shuttes. I worked one big company, where is always luck to get the seat in bus speciall at 6pm]
3. crime rate is ver low
4. lot of educational opportunities.

So, bottom line is , there is POSITIVE and NEGATIVE, but compare to all the things its not that much attractive in terms of money saving. But it is very attractive on life style.

suggestion: Check with atleast 5 people who are in USA, before you come here [donot check with people who are here since 5 years, check with the people who are here since 2 years.]