US Green-card freeze tests Indian IT yet again |
Washington’s suspension of green-card processing for eight companies, including TCS and Infosys, raises questions over due process and election-year politics
On Thursday, the Trump administration barred eight companies — Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini — from the Permanent Labour Certification programme, PERM, the step most employers must clear before sponsoring a green card. The Labour Department will accept no new applications from them and process none already pending. Existing H-1B visas and approved petitions are untouched.
Washington’s stated reason is fraud. A Labour Department inspector general investigation, launched in July alongside the White House Fraud Task Force, alleges abuse of the H-1B and PERM systems. Yet, at the announcement,........