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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The United States has cracked down on several major IT companies, including Infosys, TCS, Wipro, and HCL. These companies have been suspended from the Perm program, which entitles them to green cards. The US Department of Labor cited alleged abuses of the permanent employment process for foreign workers as the reason for the action.
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Vance gleefully announced that the Trump administration is banning Microsoft from a green card program to recruit immigrant workers. Vance said, “If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.” Meanwhile, Microsoft is actually laying off employees as it shifts […]
Why US has suspended Indian IT firms Cognizant, TCS, Wipro, HCL from Green Card filings
The latest action is a clear broadening of the crackdown on foreign workers that has become a central policy under US President Donald Trump. Technology and IT services companies are particularly facing greater scrutiny over their reliance on foreign workers.
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