Washington barred Microsoft, Infosys and six others from green-card sponsorship. Pending cases stopped too.
The US Department of Labor suspended eight companies from PERM, the step by which an employer sponsors a foreign worker for a green card, Newsweek and The Register reported.
Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced it on 8 October, with Vice President JD Vance present.
The list: Microsoft and Adobe, citing active federal investigations, and the outsourcing firms Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCLTech, Cognizant and Capgemini. No new applications will be accepted from them, and pending ones will not be processed. Existing H-1B work visas are not cancelled.
Sonderling cited "criminal investigations and alleged fraud and abuse". Microsoft said: "We pay our H-1B employees the same as any other employees doing comparable work."
The order names eight employers; the people waiting are their staff. Doug Rand, a former Homeland Security official, told Newsweek that workers may have to leave when their H-1B visas expire if the companies cannot sponsor them.
How many people on your programme's US team are waiting for a green card?
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