New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Yale scholar Gautam Mukunda slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to increase the H-1B visa fee to $100,000, warning that such a move would harm America's long-standing advantage to attract world-class talent.

Mukunda reiterated that the policy change is "economically unsound" and would put the US at a disadvantage in the global race to hire highly qualified professionals, especially as other countries become increasingly competitive to tap the same pool of talent.

The scholar emphasised that top graduates, particularly from premier institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are in high demand in other countries. He believes that by imposing this new policy, the US is essentially throwing...