Submission Statement: The Trump administration said it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp., alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system.
“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday during a briefing in Washington.
Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said other companies that would be suspended from the Permanent Labor Certification Program included Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd., Tata, Wipro Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., and Capgemini SE. He said there were multiple active federal investigations ongoing into the matter.
Vance said the suspensions would be indefinite, indicating they would be in place until the administration believed its concerns were addressed.
Vance’s comments assailing Microsoft came just hours before Trump is set to honor the company’s chief executive officer, Satya Nadella, with a National Medal of Science award at a summit in Washington intended to spotlight US technology and innovation. It also comes a week after Nadella joined other tech and AI executives at a White House luncheon to discuss safeguards for artificial intelligence.
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Doing this right as [Microsoft commits $17.5B in investments towards expanding in India](https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/09/microsoft-invests-us17-5-billion-in-india-to-drive-ai-diffusion-at-population-scale/) and despite operating [three mega-campuses in India since 1998](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/msidc) is only going to accelerate Microsoft’s offshoring to India.
Also, for those of you who don’t understand the news – basically Microsoft and other **tech companies are no longer allowed to sponsor Green Cards**