India, Sept. 23 -- A Bengaluru techie who now works at IBM in California shared how, after being rejected thrice for an H-1B visa, he landed an O-1 visa with his "extraordinary ability." 26-year-old Tanush Sharanarthi shared that he got the visa because of his work and research in artificial intelligence.

"From three years of striking out in the H-1B lottery. to finally being approved for the O-1 'Einstein' visa in the field of Artificial Intelligence. For three years straight, I played the H-1B game of chance. Three tickets, three misses. At this point, I was starting to feel like the unluckiest person in Vegas," Sharanarthi wrote on LinkedIn.

He continued, "But instead of waiting on luck, I went all in on what I could control: late ni...