Vance says Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers
- On Thursday, US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and Vice President JD Vance announced the indefinite suspension of Microsoft, Adobe, and six IT firms from the Permanent Labour Certification Programme, citing alleged fraud.
- Vance, chair of the US Anti-Fraud Task Force, alleged the companies replaced skilled American employees with lower-paid immigrants, claiming their hiring representations are "fundamentally illegitimate and therefore ultimately illegal."
- Since 2009, these companies received over 230,000 H-1B visa approvals and over 100,000 permanent labour certifications, figures Sonderling described as "hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers."
- The Labor Department also expanded investigations into nine universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, over allegations international students on J-1 visas were used to undercut American wages.
- Despite the crackdown, President Donald Trump is scheduled to award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Thursday, though officials provided no pathway for reinstated access.
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Trump admin bars Microsoft and other tech companies from seeking permanent residency for foreign workers
By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft and some other companies from seeking permanent residency for foreign workers hired through the H-1B visa program, accusing them of taking advantage of the process so that they could replace American citizens with cheaper labor from abroad. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday
Infosys, TCS, Wipro among 8 IT firms suspended from US green card programme in major H-1B crackdown
The Trump administration has suspended major IT firms including Infosys, Wipro, Tata, HCL, Cognizant, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe from the US PERM programme. The move comes amid a wider crackdown on H-1B visa use and foreign-worker hiring.
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