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White House blocks Microsoft from foreign worker hiring program

An international visa program has for years allowed US tech companies to hire highly skilled workers from abroad.

Tarun Mottlia

Via BBC News

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White House blocks Microsoft from foreign worker hiring program
Image: Image caption, The White House has often made extreme claims regarding international workers and immigration.

Microsoft and several other technology firms have been barred by the White House from hiring skilled international workers on a permanent basis through a widely used visa program.

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday accused Microsoft, along with Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini, of committing fraud through the use of the H1b visa program and a related process for workers from abroad to become permanent US residents.

"No company in the US has abused this system more…

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