ek@l

I share with your pain of being your wife's visa rejected. It is still dissapointing to learn that you were not selected in the H1B lottery (if I correctly understand from your posting above) last year.

I had a similar situation. My wife's visa request was rejected 5 times. This happened when I was on F1. She got it very easily right after I had been in H1B.

Hope every thing will normalize and your lifemate will be here in the US in 2009!

In a different note, the situation in Nepal, I believe, is way better now than I was before. Definately, in the transitional period, we can not expect more.

As you rightly said, US is not the end of universe. There are opportunities galore even in Nepal.