Vance suspended Microsoft from a green-card program.

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday suspended Microsoft, Adobe, and major information-technology outsourcers from a program that lets companies sponsor foreign workers for permanent residence, Reuters reported. Vice President JD Vance announced it at a news conference on visa fraud. “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft,” he said. He said Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers last year while drawing 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards. The Labor Department will halt new and pending applications involving the named companies. Vance said the suspensions last “as long as it needs to.”

The move follows a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions. Reuters said a enforcement effort called Project Firewall has opened about 200 cases. In fiscal 2026, Amazon was the largest employer of approved H-1B beneficiaries, followed by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Apple, and Microsoft. Microsoft said the vast majority of its employees in the United States are Americans. The same morning, the president was honoring technology executives, Microsoft’s chief executive among them.

There has been no company in the United States that has abused the system more than Microsoft.

The photograph is Vance at the lectern on Thursday, both hands up, mid-remark. It is not a studio portrait. The Technology desk files the suspension. The Iran pause is the front.