New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Donald Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the selection process for the H-1B visa system days after the US President imposed a sweeping $100,000 fee for the visa, mostly used by Indian tech workers.

The proposal, released Tuesday, comes as the latest effort of the Trump administration to change the H-1B visa system fundamentally, in accordance with the President's push to a crackdown on immigrants and favour American workers.

"The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing the process by which US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B registrations for unique beneficiaries for filing of H-1B petitions (or H-1B petitions for any year in which...