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Oct 8 2026

Vance suspends Microsoft and seven other companies from the PERM green-card program

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The Vice President announced the Labor Department suspension, accusing Microsoft of laying off 6,000 US workers last year while obtaining 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. Microsoft has said its filings and layoffs are unrelated. The action extends September's Cognizant and Cloudera suspensions into the biggest AI employers.

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