India, Feb. 27 -- A recent Forbes report on billionaire immigrants who got a start in the United States through the H-1B visa has only a handful of Indian names on the list. The report does, however, mention Raj Sardana, a man who moved to the US for higher education, started working on a visa, and eventually built a business that has today made him a billionaire.

Rajiv "Raj" Sardana is the founder and CEO of Innova Solutions. Born in 1960 in Delhi, he rose from humble beginnings to become a billionaire.

Sardana was born to Punjabi parents who moved to India during the partition of 1947. "My brother and I, along with our parents, lived for 20 years in dilapidated government housing in New Delhi with no heating or air conditioning, no re...