Washington, Sept. 20 -- The White House issued a fact sheet, justifying US President Donald Trump's move to impose an annual fee of USD 100,000 on H-1B visa applications, citing concern over US workers being replaced with "lower-paid foreign labour"

The White House stated that the share of IT workers with H-1B visas has risen from 32 per cent in FY 2003 to over 65 per cent in recent years, highlighting the growing unemployment among the US citizens due to the H-1B visas "abuse."

"Unemployment among recent computer science graduates has reached 6.1 per cent and 7.5 per cent for computer engineering graduates - more than double the rates for biology or art history majors. The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more th...