New Delhi, May 25 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted that sweeping changes to America's visa system are part of a global modernisation effort with no specific focus on India. But with H-1B registrations down 38.5 per cent, India's top IT firms losing thousands of approvals, and new rules forcing green card applicants to leave the country, the numbers paint a starkly different picture.

Speaking alongside External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at a joint press conference, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved swiftly to reassure India that Washington's reshaping of its immigration architecture is not directed at any single nation.

Rubio was emphatic in his acknowledgement of the Indian contribution to the American economy...