India on Monday deployed a high-level delegation to the U.S. to hash out trade negotiations, as well as address the Trump administration’s latest immigration change, which is expected to affect hundreds of thousands of Indian workers.

On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be hiking up the application fee for skilled workers on the H-1B visa to $100,000 per applicant, up from fees that ranged between $2,000 -$5,000, going forward.

India, the chief recipient of the U.S.’s H-1B visas and which holds an estimated 70% of all skilled-workers visas, pushed back on the policy that went into effect Sunday.

The Ministry of External Affairs over the weekend warned that the move could have "humanitarian consequences" while another minister suggested the global commun

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