President Donald Trump signed a proclamation requiring a staggering new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, and the rollout of this plan has been anything but smooth. The chaos has sent shockwaves through the tech and business world and prompted some serious backlash from U.S. allies, most notably India, which provides the largest number of H-1B visa holders.
Per MSNBC, the reaction from India’s commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, summed it up perfectly when he said the U.S. is “a little afraid of our talent.” The whole thing has been a mess of misinformation and hurried clarifications from the White House. After the initial announcement, the president’s press office spent the entire weekend trying to explain what the new fee actually meant.
