The US President Donald Trump-led administration, on Friday, i.e., September 19, announced a new rule pertaining to the H-1B visa, announcing it would ask tech firms to pay USD 100,000 (Rs 88 lakhs) per year to hire foreign workers. White House staff secretary Will Scharf stated that the H-1B non-immigrant visa is one of the "most abused visa" systems in the current immigration system of the States.

He argued that the move aims to protect American workers; at the same time, it ensures companies have a pathway to hire "truly extraordinary people" and bring them to the United States. President Trump signed the proclamation ‘Restriction on entry of certain non-immigrant workers’.

According to the proclamation, “The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State shall coordinate

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