YORK: As part of his extensive immigration crackdown, President Donald Trump imposed increased visa fees, causing workers on H-1B visas from China and India to cancel their travel plans and return to the United States in a frenzy of bewilderment, rage, and panic.
Employees received urgent memos from banks and IT businesses warning them not to leave the nation and to return by a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday (4:01 a.m. GMT).
Addressing some of the ambiguity surrounding who would be impacted by the order, a White House official stressed on Saturday that the directive only applied to new applications and not to holders of existing visas or those seeking renewals.
