Loote - I agree with the thrust of what you have said. You raise two important points about responsibility and challenge that I want to addresses. But before doing so, I want to wish you the very best of luck no matter what you decide to do and when you decide to go back.There is a good chance I may end up doing something similar. This is not directed at you specifically, but at the larger audience as food for thought. These points don't always reflect my own opinion on the subject - although sometimes they do - and are raised more with the intent of providing an alternative point of view. (1) Responsibility: What responsibility do we have towards the country we were born in? Where does that responsibility start and end? For the guy from Humla who wore torn pants and broken slippers to school, passed his SLC, suffered hardships finishing his ISc in Kathmandu and got a scholarship to study in America, and then helped the rest of his family, relatives and village-folks come to the US, hasn't he impacted the lives of many more Nepalese than some of us might be able to when we go back? He worked difficult, often demeaning jobs in the US to send money to his brothers and sisters in Nepal so that they could pay their school fees and have a decent meal. He signed letters of affidavit for his fellow village-people based on the income he made from these odd jobs or the job he got when he finally graduated from college. Will he be doing a greater service by going back to Nepal or by continuing to be a helping hand to those who want to better the lives of their children by coming to the US? Why can't America be his new country? Why does the country you were born into have to be the country you should be loyal to? People migrate from the Pahad to the Madesh or Kathmandu in Nepal - why should the situation of the people migrating to the US from the Nepal be looked at any differently? (2) Challenges: There are challenges everywhere. I think the challenges in America are no less from the challenges in Nepal. Coming to a foreign country, learning the culture and ways of the land, breaking barriers of culture and assimilation, setting your mark - that's as much a challenge in its own ways as trying to make things better in Nepal. Also, what challenges someone is different from person to person. If you have the ability to impact the lives of billions of people by being part of the American economy, why limit your impact to a small part of the world, and I know this might sound harsh and cruel to some, even if that part of the world happens to be your country of birth? Again, this is not pointed at you personally, Loote, and I hope you will not feel otherwise. My point, once again, is directed at the larger audience and I feel staying back and doing what you need to do should not be placed on a lower moral plane than going back and having an impact, even though I personally maybe be going back but for neither of the above two reasons.