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In a blow to Indian IT majors, the United States on Thursday suspended several companies from the Permanent Labour Certification Programme, which lets firms apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, arguing that the practice takes away jobs from Americans. The affected companies include Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and HCL.

US Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling announced the move, which also impacts Western behemoths like Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe. He was flanked by the head of the US Anti-Fraud Task Force and Vice President JD Vance.

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20 Comments

@KFHGJVIN 2 days ago

Great move by the U.S. government. H1Bs should only be hired by private companies for high-salaried positions after proper vetting of credentials and experience. For PhDs, doctors and brilliant scientists, there is a separate visa category and the process should be made easier for such people to immigrate.
For regular admin, business, IT related jobs, companies should stick to hiring locals as these jobs do not require some genius mind or exceptional academic record which most H1Bs do not bring to the table anyways. There are already enough Americans to do jobs requiring average to above-average skillsets, so why bring in more of the same? Plus AI will take away many jobs, so no need to import more surplus labor.

@simpletruth18 3 days ago

Trafficking firms

@mesbahulhoda9539 3 days ago

Worked for Cognizant for three years. I rarely worked with American citizens. They were all on H1 or L1. How is that not abusing the system?

@Mimijosereal 3 days ago (edited)

They need to add to the list. Corporations like Salesforce, Ford, Pfizer, Roche, most big of big pharma , GM, Stellantis etc. Turning American parents to lower paid contract workers of third party Indian companies and refusing jobs for the GenZ children is wicked!

@Food-is-HealthMedicine 3 days ago

I agree 100% with Vance and Trump in this matter

@davidchristner7291 2 days ago

Absolutely nessassary!
The USA has enough Computer Technology Trained Individuals!!

@manojb3152 3 days ago

We have to use our skills for india

@seshadrir2057 3 days ago

It is refreshing to see a vice president of a country speaks about job layoffs and the need to protect the american jobs. Here in india nobody, no politician cares if you're layed off.

@scotts5886 3 days ago

Yeah really, can't they get people in the US to do that work?!😢

@SamShawn-k2r 2 days ago

Very nice 🙂 India must learn the lesson

@Manas-ry6f 3 days ago

many got gcs now what this will do they got by already, many us companies like sales force also doing this

@romerojohnny4040 3 days ago

American tech workers should lawsuits these companies for discriminating young, telented and educated people in country.😮😮😮

@pmaitrasm 3 days ago

Looks like these companies did not lobby enough.

@Itachi.D.Urahara 3 days ago (edited)

This is good for both countries and their development. Companies need to be held accountable

@doozowings4672 3 days ago

The US needs to ban any government contracts to ANY US company that dabbles in these foreign labor markets.

@vjchamarthi9057 3 days ago

Good move I agree ✊👏👏

@pineapplemanhp6526 3 days ago

Over 90% of them don't plan to go back to India after completing their college here...

@prajwas2004 2 days ago

No setback. They can hire the same folks in Canada Ireland and pay in india will increase as well.

@w.c.6062 2 days ago (edited)

Allegations of fraud in H-1B visa applications from India have drawn increased scrutiny. Good move~

@Min-r5l5i 3 days ago

Microsoft has been doing this since 2001, every one knows about it. Microsoft went to India in Haydrabad and opened a training center of IT, they trained thousands of people and brought them over for cheap labor also they gave all their it jobs to Indian companies and call centers.