Neha Satpute and Akshay Pise felt ready to welcome their first child.
Having worked in the US for more than a decade, the Indian couple who are engineers on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, expected their son – due on 26 February – to be born an American citizen.
Employed at a large tech firm with a supportive parental leave policy, they had carefully built their life in San Jose, California.