“I came from India to get my Masters, and worked at a major tech company in SF” (opens in new tab)

In US, if you are not native american - you are an immigrant. But few people don't know history. Trick is you need to get GC before your long term visa expires.

His entire organization came in on work visas in 2011, when the recession was still on and there were many GC and citizen tech workers out of work.