SanDisk co-founder and now Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra once pointed to a defining childhood moment in which his father's persistence after repeated visa denials helped change the course of his life.
Three Visa Rejections Before A Turning Point In a 2019 interview, Mehrotra recalled applying for a U.S. student visa multiple times in 1976 after receiving admission offers from American universities, including the University of California, Berkeley.
Each time, his application was rejected, despite strong academic credentials from BITS Pilani in India.
A Father Who Refused to Accept ‘No' After the third rejection, Mehrotra's father took an unorthodox approach.
He waited at the U.S.
