White House Suspends Microsoft From Green Card Program Over H-1B Fraud

The Trump administration is cutting one of America’s biggest tech companies out of a major green card program over alleged visa fraud.

Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that Microsoft is being suspended from a Department of Labor program employers use to sponsor H-1B visa holders for green cards, the Associated Press reported Thursday. This effort is part of a wider visa crackdown, in which the administration seeks to root out fraud and prioritize American jobs.

“Last year, Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H1B visas,” Vance said during a Thursday press conference announcing the suspension. “You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”

“For every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign, indentured servants,” Vance added.

The H-1B program, which has been in existence since 1990, lets employers in the U.S. hire foreign nationals for “specialty occupations” on a temporary basis.

American tech workers have long argued that companies use visa programs to replace them with cheap foreign labor.

Jonathan, a cybersecurity professional who has since given up on the industry, got zero offers after applying for more than 200 tech jobs and being laid off in November 2024, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation in December 2025.

John, who worked in IT at a Connecticut insurance company, said at the time that roughly 350 American IT staffers there were gradually phased out for foreign workers over his decade working with the firm.

“Most of the time they had them train their Indian replacements before they left as a condition of receiving their severance,” he told the DCNF in Dec. 2025.