White House targets tech giants with H-1B visa suspension
Vice President J.D. Vance speaking during an update on the federal investigation into the fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program. Gettyimages.com/ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Contributor
ByNick Wakeman,
Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology
October 8, 2026 01:03 PM ET
Vice President J.D. calls Microsoft the "biggest abuser" as the administration freezes new and pending H-1B and PERM applications for eight companies.
The Trump administration has barred multiple technology companies from hiring workers from outside the U.S. under the H-1B visa program.
At the top of the administration's list is Microsoft, which Vice President J.D. Vance called the "biggest abuser" of the program. Microsoft laid off 6,000 workers in 2015 while adding 6,300 people via the H-1B visa program and another 3,000 workers with Green Cards, Vance said at a White House briefing Thursday.
Other companies under suspension include Adobe, Cognizant, Tata, Wipro, Infosys, HCL and Capgemini.
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