Speaking to ANI on Monday, Tharoor mentioned that the sudden hike in H-1B visa fees is about America's domestic politics and the President is trying to gain support of the anti-immigration base. According to Tharoor, the decision to raise visa fees to as high as $100,000 was meant to make low- and mid-level jobs 'unviable.' 'So only the high-end, really desirable, irreplaceable top people who are worth it for a company to spend a hundred thousand dollars, only they will come,' he added. Raising concern for Indian IT companies, Tharoor said the new fee structure would make many contracts unviable for Indian tech companies. 'We cannot pay a hundred thousand dollars per person to go off and do a contract which is actually a low-end contract,' he said.