India, Dec. 3 -- Countries that put up roadblocks to the mobility of professionals across borders will be "net losers", external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday against the backdrop of a move by the US to reform the H-1B visa programme and opposition to hiring of foreign workers in parts of Europe.

Leaders in entrepreneurship and technology have backed mobility of professionals, which is being opposed only by those with a "certain political base or a constituency to address", Jaishankar said while addressing a conclave organised by India's World magazine on the theme of "The Mobility Imperative".

Jaishankar linked the opposition to mobility of professionals in certain countries to their efforts to get firms to move their...