US suspends green card process for major IT companies. The United States government suspended Indian firms Tata, Infosys, Wipro and HCL. The list also included Capgemini and Cognizant. All these companies were suspended from sponsoring most foreign workers for green cards.
In an announcement on Thursday, the Vice President of USA JD Vance announced suspensions of Microsoft, Adobe, and outsourcing giants like Cognizant, Infosys, and Tata from the federal Permanent Labor Certification program.
The government further alleged H-1B visa fraud. They also blamed these Companies for replacing U.S. workers for cheaper foreign labor.
In his address the Vice President of USA talked about Microsoft’s 2025 layoffs of about 6,000 Americans.
The Vice President, “”I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, USDOL (US Department of Labour) is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program.”
JD Vance further added on the topic of ‘US suspends green card’ and said, “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft.”
The VP of USA added, “Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers in 2025 after certifying that it could not find qualified American employees — yet the company was approved for more than 6,000 H-1Bs and filed 3,682 PERM applications, including nearly 1,000 applications for the same positions as the laid off American workers.”
.@Sonderling47: “I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program.”
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2026
