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To be sure, India's $283bn IT sector faces a reckoning with its reliance on shuttling skilled workers to the US, which accounts for over half its revenue.

Workers from India receive by far the most skilled visas in the programme, at more than 70% of the 85,000 issued each year.

Ordinary skilled workers, by contrast, now face a staggering application fee just to apply for the same H-1B status they’ve used for decades.

Workers from India receive by far the most skilled visas in the programme, at just more than 70% of those issued.

He added that the agreement was "creating highly skilled jobs, putting more money in people's pockets and ensuring this partnership benefits every corner of the United Kingdom."