India, Sept. 24 -- Last Friday, just as Americans were winding down for the weekend, the White House dropped a shock-and-awe measure affecting many leading US businesses. On that day, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation announcing a staggering $100,000 fee on H-1B visa for each employee hired under the programme, effective September 21. This H1-B proclamation could be extremely problematic for the technology industry in the US and India and strains the already strained relationship between the two great nations. even further.

The H1-B proclamation sparked 24 hours of absolute mayhem. Microsoft and other major employers urgently advised their H-1B workers abroad to return before the deadline and instructed those still in the US t...