Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
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The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim.
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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 “become rife with fraud” and that over-reliance on such schemes was “a fundamental insult to the American worker.”
He added that “no company in the US” had “abused this system” more than Microsoft.
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