A young Bengaluru techie shared how he secured the O-1 US visa after being rejected thrice for an H1-B visa. The techie who currently works at IBM in California shared in a LinkedIn post that his application for an O-1 visa was approved after the authorities acknowledged his extraordinary talent.

What is an O-1 visa?

Like the H1-B visa in the US, the O-1 visa is the country's non-immigrant visa meant only for temporary workers who are equipped with excellent capabilities or achievement in the fields of sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or even show extraordinary talent or work in the motion picture or television industry.

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