The H-1B visas are crucial for US tech companies, which recruit heavily from countries including India and China.

The Donald Trump administration has announced an increase in the vetting of H-1B visa applicants for highly skilled workers, with an internal state department memo outlining new rules for rejection.

This comes after the administration hiked the application fees for H-1B visas, which allow US employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields, to a whopping $100,000 in September of this year.

These visas are crucial for US tech companies, which recruit heavily from countries including India and China. Many of those companies' leaders threw their support behind Donald Trump in the presidential election held last year.

According to a Reuters report, an internal memo fr

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