Reddy said that Trump’s new visa rules may force India’s potential entrepreneurs to stay at home. — Atul Loke/The New York Times
SAI Jagruthi, a 17-year-old engineering student at a giant technical university in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, remembers exactly where she was when she heard the news.
She had just finished a dinner of okra and rice in the student cafeteria, she said, when her father called to tell her about a proclamation US President Donald Trump had made from the White House on Sept 19 – every H-1B visa, a work permit that has brought millions of Indians to the United States since the 1990s, would now come with a US$100,000 fee.
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