India, Aug. 19 -- The controversy regarding H-1B visa has been growing exponentially over the past years. Plans to reinvent the program have been signalled by the Trump administration, with MAGA-aligned activists pressing to make the rules more regimented or even to abolish it outright.

The situation is now much the same with Surbhi Madan, a 30-year-old Google software engineer, who first arrived in the States in 2013 to pursue her bachelor's degree at Brown University, says her existence here continues to feel "temporary" because of her reliance on an H-1B visa.

While speaking with Business Insider, Madan opened up about the program's dual nature, one that offered her life-changing opportunities but also tied her future to a system mar...