# US suspends Microsoft, Adobe and IT services groups from labor certification program
The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several large IT services companies from a federal program used in the employment-based permanent residency process, according to a report published on the event date by TechCrunch.
The affected companies also include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata and Wipro. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said the government would stop accepting both new and pending permanent labor certification applications involving the named employers. The administration accused the companies of fraud, though the supplied evidence does not describe specific findings against each business or indicate how long the suspensions will last.
Permanent labor certification is distinct from an H-1B visa, but both systems are important to technology employers recruiting skilled foreign workers. The certification process is generally an early requirement when an employer sponsors a worker for permanent residency. Halting applications therefore affects a path to green cards rather than immediately canceling workers' existing immigration status.
Vice President JD Vance framed the action as an effort to increase domestic hiring. Speaking at a news conference, he said Microsoft remained an important American company but should employ more US workers. The administration also announced investigations into nine universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, over alleged misuse of a program for international students. The packet does not provide responses from those universities.
Microsoft disputed the implication that its immigration filings displaced large numbers of American employees. The company said most of its roughly 6,000 H-1B filings in the previous fiscal year involved extensions or status changes for existing staff rather than newly recruited workers. It said the remaining new-employee filings concerned people already legally present in the United States and represented about one percent of its US workforce.
The company also said it applies the same pay standards to H-1B employees as to comparable colleagues and files petitions only for candidates who meet the visa category's requirements. Microsoft said it expected to give the administration additional information. Adobe had not responded to TechCrunch when the report was published.
The move introduces immediate uncertainty for sponsored employees and pending cases at some of the technology sector's biggest recruiters. The evidence supplied for this article does not establish that the government's fraud allegations have been tested in court, and it does not identify any final administrative findings. For now, the confirmed action is a suspension of labor certification processing connected to the listed employers, alongside a broader administration push to tighten employment and student immigration programs.
