Atomic, I only showed you my experience because i have been through that myself and i have been around with lots of friends who also have been through that and it is impossible. Maybe when you're on opt you can save some and send but that is also externally difficult. So if i can't even use my own first hand and hundreds of Nepali's experience to have an opinion, and remember it's an opinion not a statistical analysis, what in the hell give you any credibility to say that Nepali students send money? have you done any statistically analysis yourself to come to the conclusion? People like you sound like it's easily done in the US and more and more Nepali people sell their land or invest hard earned money to send their teens to US and they and the teens both suffer. There are many alternatives that to come to USA and work illegally in student visa , specially when you use that money to go to school like Nepal or India.

Satrianic, I understand your problem. I have been through that myself and i know how status affects everything. Hell I remember, i couldn't even buy a large size soap at walmart not knowing if i would be even here to finish it or not. I that is the reason why i signed up for the petition and although i know it's not going to do any good to the immediate earthquake victims i know it will benefit people like like you. and I honestly support your intentions too, but the only problems i have is people trying to sound like it's for the victims, no it's not. You're not an earthquake victim you're a victim of h1b lottery system which was started in the first place why, because there are too many applicants, and why are there too many applicants because there are too many fake IT consultancies filing for h1b, and why are there too many fake IT consultancies, because lots of our Nepali and Indian brothers go for it and the regularities authorities are not doing anything to bust that.
Satrianic brother, would it be nice that people like you and me could just go to school, get good grades and easily land h1b? the reason we can't do that is because of the same reason we try to defend that is IT consultancies. lots of companies are not even taking interns , or filing for h1bs because they can easily get consultants with 10 yrs of experience(though fake) so who's going to do the hard work of hiring , training and developing. The very people we think are helping us are doing harm to us in the first place.

The whole cycle of suffering in the US by Nepali students and illegals won't stop until we realize that as a society that US is not heaven and money don't grow in trees. We need to project reality to the prospective students in Nepal that they can use the money to go to Indian, Bangladesh, Thailand even Nepal and study good subjects like engineering , medical etc why come here and work like thieves, then stress about h1 and then gc, and then family issues like bringing your parents and then the never ending suffering of one thing or another, It's about time for us to realize that we do have options, options to skip these miseries and live happy and career successful life. But we always look things with myopic perspective and fail to see the big picture and as a Nation our suffering never stops.