India, Oct. 1 -- United States commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has said that heads of two top tech companies said to him that the existing H-1B visa lottery system for skilled workers was "bizarre". The top Trump aide's remarks came as he hinted at more changes to the H-1B visa allocation rules.

Lutnick said that the lottery "does not make any sense", and hinted that talks are underway on whether it should be there or not. "I mean why when you're trying to take in skilled workers would you do it by a lottery?" the commerce secretary asked.

He further said that he had spoken to the heads of two of the top five tech companies globally. "..They said doing a lottery for skilled workers coming into America is bizarre. So everyone agrees th...