India, Sept. 20 -- US President Donald Trump has signed a petition that will impose an annual $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas.

This move is likely to impact a large number of Indian tech workers, who constitute a major portion of the beneficiaries.

In a statement issued sharing details about the proclamation, White House said: "The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labour."

The White House said the large-scale replacement of American workers through 'systemic abuse' of the program has undermined both our ...