NEW DELHI: A day after the US and Australia announced tightening of their skilled visa programmes, India said it was consulting both foreign governments and other stakeholders to assess the impact on its outwardly mobile skilled workforce.Answering questions on the two announcements made on Tuesday by the US and Australia, MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay said, “Senior Australian officials have conveyed to us that the impact of the changes will be negligible on Indian workers, most of whom fall in high skill category.“The Malcolm Turnbull government had announced that Australia would replace the popular 457 visa category with two separate merit-based professional visa programmes.The MEA also reminded that in 2016, India and France had agreed to allow Indian students at masters level to extend their stay in France for two years after their got their degree. “The government's foreign policy has facilitated expansion of workforce within the country through flagship programmes such as `Make in India', `Skill India', `Digital India', by delivering large technological partnerships and en hanced foreign direct investment,“ Baglay said.On the US H-1B visas, the spokesperson said the cap on these visas had remained the same since 2004.“Insofar as H-1B visas are concerned, the cap has remained at 65,000 since December 2004 when the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 was enacted by the US Congress,“ he said.US President Donald Trump 's executive order announced a review of the H-1B visa system. “It should include only the most skilled and highest-paid applicants and should never, ever be used to replace American workers,“ he said.