BOSTON — He came to America on a student visa, earned a master’s degree from Babson College and is now starting a new business, but Abhinav Sureka worries that he’ll have to return to India. To stay, he needs an H-1B visa, a temporary work permit typically obtained through a lottery with lower odds of winning than a coin toss.
To help foreign students like Sureka beat those odds and keep their companies here, Babson and at least five other U.S. schools are using a new approach that critics describe as exploiting a legal loophole.
Image: Abhinav Sureka, right, of India, types in his work space at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. The alumnus of its graduate school has started a business and hopes to get an H1-B visa with Babson’s help. (Charles Krupa/AP)
