India, Sept. 23 -- The Donald Trump administration's recent announcement of a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas might trigger a major migration of talent to the Gulf nations, especially the UAE, recruitment consultants and education experts told Gulf News.

The US President, in a statement published by the White House, said the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was made to get temporary workers into the country to perform "additive, high-skilled functions." However, he noted that it has "been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor."

As a result, the large-scale replacement of American workers via "systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national se...