❌

Normal view

Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency

9 October 2026 at 09:14

Donald Trump’s administration has temporarily banned Microsoft, Adobe, and several other tech companies from sponsoring workers for permanent US residency, claiming they abused immigration programs at the expense of American citizens.

Vice-president JD Vance said on Thursday that the H-1B visa programme for highly skilled foreign workers had β€œbecome rife with fraud” and that over-reliance on such schemes was β€œa fundamental insult to the American worker.”

He added that β€œno company in the US” had β€œabused this system” more than Microsoft.

Read full article

Comments

Β© Mike Mozart / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

❌