As consumers of fast food, we are all familiar with the question "Do you want to eat your food here in the restaurant or do you want it to go for back home?"

Thanks to a flawed and cumbersome immigration system in the United States, this is also a question that frustrates and angers many skilled immigrants as they struggle with the H-1B visa process. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has a cap of 65,000 H-1B visas a year and the demand far exceeds this number. With these bothersome restrictions, many talented entrepreneurs are forced to return to their native countries or seek visa extensions in a drawn-out process. Getting a green card and becoming a permanent resident takes even longer.

Vivek Pandit (Ali Fazal) is a software engineer who is all set to begin work at a new job at an up-and-coming healthcare startup. But when they find out that he has only a year remaining on his work visa, they rescind their offer to him.

In his book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, Vivak Wadhwa observes the fallout from this brain drain: "It has brought to life the ugly realities and strained emotions of the million skilled immigrants who are stuck in limbo in America — endlessly waiting for their green cards, having to live in constant fear."

Vivek, who is animated by ambition and a sense of the positive changes he can bring to society via his software creations, views similar struggles in his Indian roommates and other friends during this troubling transitional time in his life. Lakshmi (Omi Vaidya) is gay and doesn't believe he will be accepted in India. Amit (Amitosh Nagpal) says in India all he can do is work in a shop; he desperately wants to stay in the U.S. Meanwhile, an Indian business leader who has found great success in the U.S., Vishwanath Prabhu (Rajit Kapur), has published a book about this being the time for Indians to go home and help their country. When Vivek starts dating an Indian lawyer (Melanie Chandra), he becomes even more conflicted about where he wants to work.

Director Rucha Humnabadka and writer Rishi Bhilawadikar have come up with a timely comedy that conveys the resilience, patience, and passion that is required of those who seek to find the best place for them to fulfill their potential. For Here or To Go? challenges government agencies and business people to think seriously about reforming the immigration system if the United States is to remain a magnet for foreign talent.