Last week US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping presidential proclamation on H-1B visa applications. Under the new order, companies are now required to pay a one-time fee of $100,000 (around Rs 88 lakh) on every new H-1B visa application. The order came as a shock to the tech industry in particular, where giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta and countless startups rely on pulling talent from across the globe. A large number of these talented software engineers, almost 70 per cent, who use H-1B visa to get into the US tech industry are Indians, and there are fairly overt signs that Trump targeted Indians with his executive order.

The US government move has sparked an online conversation around the issue of H-1B visas. Almost everyone in the tech industry in India and the US are talkin

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