By The Epoch Times | Created at 2026-10-08 16:07:12 | Updated at 2026-10-09 19:01:51
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Vice President JD Vance speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Sept. 3, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration will suspend Microsoft from a program that allows its foreign workers to apply for green cards, citing alleged fraud.
“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vance said in a press conference on Oct. 8.
“Microsoft laid off last year 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.”
Speaking at the press conference, Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling said that other IT service companies would also be suspended from the Permanent Labor Certification Program, including Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCO, and Capgemini.
Anthony D'Esposito, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Labor, also announced that the Trump administration is launching an “investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities.”
The universities involved are Pitt, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
