$100,000 barrier derails many dreams

A 17-year-old engineering student at a technical university in Hyderabad, remembers exactly where she was when she heard the news.

- SAI JAGRUTHI

She had just finished a dinner she said, when her father called to tell her about a proclamation President Trump had made from the White House on September 19.

Every H-1B visa, a work permit that has brought millions of Indians to the US since the 1990s, would now come with a $100,000 fee. "My dreams were shattered," she said.

She recalled her father saying, "'It was the best option, and we are going to lose it." The new rules threaten to

stop up a pipeline for a fastgrowing class of young dreamers.