Independence or Marriage?

For most of this decade about 100,000 spouses a year, mostly wives, have come to the U.S. to be with their husbands, who are on an H-1B work visa. But the wives are given an H-4 visa, which does not allow them to work. We’ll speak with Meghna Damani, who’s film about her experience as a non-working spouse is “Hearts Suspended: Losing Who You Were, Losing Who You Could Become,” and Shivali Shah, a DC-based attorney and founding member of Kiran, an organization serving battered immigrant women in North Carolina.

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