Published by The Washington Post, Huff Post Religion & Religion News Service, May 10, 2012
Even though she met her husband through an arranged marriage, Pooja Sindhwani considers herself a modern woman. She worked in interior design in her native India for four years, and she and her husband spent a year getting to know each other before their wedding. When she followed her husband to Houston, she wasn’t worried about adjusting to life in the United States.
“You feel you’re going to a country that offers opportunities,” Sindhwani said, “you expect that things will work out.”
Except when they don’t.
Unable to land a job in Houston, Sindhwani slipped into depression. Like thousands of Indian women, she was issued an H-4 “dependent spouse” visa that did not allow her to work. …
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Megan Sweas 
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