Administration suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from the green-card labor program
Both the administration's numbers and Microsoft's rebuttal, side by side.
Vice President JD Vance announced that Microsoft, Adobe and six outsourcing firms (Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata and Wipro) can no longer file, or have pending applications processed, through the Permanent Labor Certification program (PERM), which employers use to sponsor workers for green cards. The administration accuses the companies of misusing visa programs to replace U.S. workers. The H-1B program itself is not affected, and green cards already issued remain valid.
Vance said Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers last year while benefiting from 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards. Microsoft says 80% of its roughly 6,000 H-1B applications last fiscal year were to extend or change the status of existing employees, not to hire new people.
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Democrat
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), ranking Democrat on the House immigration subcommittee: "You don't fix a broken immigration system by taking a hammer to legal immigration." She called PERM a process with steps "to ensure that this is a net benefit to our economy and does not harm American jobs."
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Vice President JD Vance: "Microsoft, you're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants."
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Permanent Labor Certification
After exploring Microsoft responds to green card program suspension, Trump administration alleging fraud, for what PERM is supposed to do, see Permanent Labor Certification.
Permanent Labor Certification is a required step for some employment-based immigration. Its stated goal is to make sure foreign workers aren't displacing equally qualified and willing U.S. workers.
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