Bengaluru, Sept. 22 -- After years of struggling with the US immigration system, Bengaluru-based professional Radhika Agarwal gave up her L1 visa in 2019 and moved back to India, a decision she now says transformed her life for the better.

In a post that has gone viral on X, the University of California, Berkeley alumna shared her journey, which included three failed attempts at securing an H-1B visa and finally getting L1 approval, only to walk away from it all.

"I've had my whole saga with the US visa system: 3 H1b lottery misses, cross-border long distance relationship through it all, finally getting L1 visa approval, and then deciding to come back home in '19, giving up the L1 I wanted so badly..." she wrote on X.

Agarwal cited fou...