US Suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini From Green-Card PERM Program

Vice President JD Vance announced the Labor Department will stop accepting or processing applications under the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) program for Microsoft, Adobe and six large IT outsourcers — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini — citing active federal fraud investigations. Vance singled out Microsoft for cutting ~6,000 US workers last year while filing ~6,300 H-1Bs and ~3,000 green-card petitions. Existing H-1Bs aren't canceled, but the freeze blocks the labor-certification step that must precede most employment-based green cards, directly hitting the pipeline that staffs AI engineering orgs.