The Trump administration will no longer allow Microsoft and other tech companies to participate in a program that allows H-1B visa holders to apply for green cards, one of the most common pathways for skilled foreign workers seeking permanent residency in the United States.
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In addition to Microsoft, administration officials said on Thursday that software giant Adobe and other companies will be suspended from the PERM program, the Labor Department's permanent labor certification program.
Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling said that the agency is investigating whether these companies committed fraud. In a press conference, Vice President JD Vance said, "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft.”
The administration's disparagement of H-1B visas—one of the most common work visas in the US—has sent waves of panic through Silicon Valley since Trump's reelection. Tech companies are some of the H1-B program's biggest users. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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