Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa

This comes after the administration hiked the application fees for H-1B visas, which allow US employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields, to a whopping $100,000 in September of this year.

These visas are crucial for US tech companies, which recruit heavily from countries including India and China. Many of those companies' leaders threw their support behind Donald Trump in the presidential election held last year.

According to a Reuters report, an internal memo from the US state department has laid out new rules for vetting of H-1B visa applicants, saying that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.