Friday's changes to the prized H-1B visas, which included a new $100,000 fee, rattled the tech industry and left US companies scrambling to figure out the implications.
The fee change rattled students like Kashyap, who hoped to get into an American university and from there the US jobs market.
“Back when the fee was lower, it was still something that you could pin hopes on, it would be easier to convert the student visa to an H-1B,“ Kashyap told AFP.
H-1B visas allow companies to sponsor foreign workers with specialised skills --- such as scientists, engineers, and computer programmers -- to work in the United States, initially for three years but extendable to six.
Lutnick detailed the new measure as he stood beside Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where the US president also introduced a $1 million “gold card” residency programme he had previewed months earlier.
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India's IT industry association Nasscom said soon after Friday's initial announcement that it was concerned by the new visa measures.
Shashwath VS, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student in Bengaluru, said the new fee was too high for companies to think about sponsoring a foreign candidate.
He said many like him might try to find places elsewhere, such as Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
“So they (the US) will also be hit, in one way or the other.”
Trump has had the H-1B programme in his sights since his first term in office, and the current visa iteration has become the latest move in a major immigration crackdown in his second term.
India's own vast outsourcing industry has also depended on the work permits for decades, even though that has softened in recent years.
Sahil, a 37-year-old senior manager at an India-based consultancy firm, returned from the United States last year after living there on an H-1B visa for almost seven years.
“We will see fewer Indians migrating to the US in the future. That possibly means those people will now start looking at other countries.”- AFP
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