U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdown
- ID
- 33275
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 09 Oct 2026, 2:52 AM
- Fetched
- 09 Oct 2026, 3:28 AM
- Provider
- CNBC Technology
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspension.html
- Source URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/id/19854910/device/rss/rss.html
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 09 Oct 2026, 3:28 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersstartup_founders
What happened
The U.S. Department of Labor said it will suspend Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro, and HCL from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) green-card program. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited multiple active federal investigations for Microsoft and Adobe, and said these companies have requested almost 3 million foreign workers since 2009, with over 230,000 H-1B approvals and 100,000 permanent labor certifications.
Why it matters
If you or your employer rely on PERM sponsorship through one of the named companies, new applications will not be accepted or processed, so U.S. green-card timelines likely stall or require a different employer or immigration path. For Malaysian founders and developers, this is mainly a U.S. labor-mobility policy shift; it does not directly change local dev tooling or most startup work, but it could affect hiring conversations with engineers from those firms.
Discussion angle
Should Malaysian startups try to recruit engineers affected by U.S. PERM suspensions, or is the immigration uncertainty too hard to plan around?