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    India: The export of trophy wives (H-1B Visas)

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    Posted: Thu, May 22 2008. 11:10 PM IST
    The export of trophy wives
    If you’re going to marry a guy because he’s overseas and he’s looking to India to find a wife, doesn’t something signal this equation might go awry?

    S.Mitra Kalita

    Applications for the much-coveted H-1B visas, exit strategy of choice for many in India’s high-technology industry, were sent off late last month and will be decided by lottery. But you can bet another group making their way to the US soon most certainly won’t be left to chance: their wives.

    This being the nation where total strangers learn to love, the centuries-old game — happiness is not the measure; longevity is — has had pretty good odds. But the NRI (non-resident Indian) won’t gamble.

    So this summer, the prodigal sons already overseas will descend on their hometowns, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Kolkata, and begin putting faces to the email addresses with whom they have been dutifully corresponding. Depending on how free the young man is from Ma’s clutches, some will have the privilege of meeting at a coffee shop and pretending it’s a date night, just without the perfunctory groping. You can’t miss them: the spectacled, balding software engineers and the lip-glossed, kurti-clad brides-to-be parading into Barista. She tosses her hair flirtatiously and he looks on enviously; you wonder if he wants the confidence…or the hair. She just wants…the visa.

    If nobody wants to marry NRIs anymore, how do balding software guys still end up with such svelte partners?

    Only one will win his heart, wallet and immigration sponsorship. He will return again in that perpetually auspicious month of November to marry; the citizens will tell immigration officials she’s just a fiancée because it’s easier to be exported that way. Once there, she’ll join the category of visa known as “dependentâ€
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    Guess whether the majority of the dependent wives who are not legally permitted to work here in the United States are working or not. You have heard of legal immigrants and illegal immigrants there are also a large number of quasi legal immigrants, here legally not legally authorized to work.
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