India, Sept. 20 -- After US President Donald Trump's move to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas (around 9 million or 90 lakh Indian rupees) - to be paid by employers who sponsor technically skilled overseas staff into the US - Indians are the most worried group. And data can mostly tell you why.

Then there is the social context - popularly termed "upward mobility" achieved by a move westwards from India.

Such is the importance of this visa for Indians who end up in America that H-1B holders, when counted along with their families, were about a fourth of the Indian-American population. The total Indian-American population was estimated at around 3 million, as per a BBC report.

The programme is a reason for the "rise of Indian-Am...