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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.

wired.comTrump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

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For scale: the 8 suspended firms had about 12,400 certified PERM cases in FY2024–26 to date, roughly 3.6% of all PERM certifications in DOL's disclosure data. Microsoft alone is half of that.

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.

wired.comTrump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

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.”

wired.comTrump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

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-...

wired.comTrump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

All those denied H-1B visa will have to go somewhere else. MS and other tech companies may have to move their offices to those places too. That should reduce population in US too. There will be less people in US competing to buy farm products and other consumables.