Trump Administration Bars Microsoft From US Green Card Sponsorship Programme

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The Trump administration has banned Microsoft from an immigration programme for foreign workers, accusing the company of replacing American employees with overseas staff. The White House said Microsoft, Adobe and several other large IT firms would be blocked from sponsoring staff on work visas for permanent residency, with the ban also applying to IT-outsourcing firms Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, Capgemini and HCL. Vice President JD Vance accused the tech giant of replacing American-born employees with "foreign indentured servants" and committing "fraud", saying Microsoft laid off 6,000 US workers while hiring 6,300 workers on H1-B visas and sponsoring 3,000 green cards. Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling said the suspensions resulted from "multiple active federal investigations" and that some companies had become "visa mills". The announcement came on the same day that President Donald Trump was set to award Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's highest honour for technological achievement.

Impact on assets 7

Artificial Intelligence▼
Microsoft Corporation
MSFT
▼ NegativeRegulationrelevance

Microsoft is the primary target of the administration's ban on green card sponsorship, accused of replacing American workers with H1-B visa holders.

Adobe Inc.
ADBE
▼ NegativeRegulationrelevance

Adobe is among the large IT firms blocked from sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency under the Trump administration's immigration ban.

Information Technology▼
Capgemini SE
CAP
▼ NegativeRegulationrelevance

Capgemini is named among the IT-outsourcing firms blocked from sponsoring staff on work visas for permanent residency.

Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▲

Off-coverage companies 1

HCLi
Private▼ NegativeRegulationrelevance

HCL is explicitly listed among the outsourcing firms barred from the green card sponsorship programme.