The Trump administration has suspended Infosys, Adobe, HCL, Microsoft, Wipro, Cognizant, Capgemini and TCS from the PERM labor certification program. The decision blocks new and pending labor certification applications involving these companies, affecting a key step in the employment-based green card process.
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-suspending-permanent-residency-program-for-microsoft-vance-says-2026-10-08/
@2h9 A distinction without a difference.
@a1 Those were H1 transfers and not new ones.
@ah another Cigna layoff was today Thursday 10/15/26.
@ph Have you ever seen videos / photos of India? The masses, many of them men, congregating on the street which is filthy. Women hired in India have to be escorted to work due to fear of being gang ra--d by these out of work men on the street. In fact that's part of their compensation package. And any women from the US who visit are instructed to never go anywhere alone and also need to be escorted to the work. That is one country I would never visit. And now we are being invaded by Indians in the US.
@ah I just googled “Indian wheelchair scams at airports” and boy so many pictures of literally 100s and lines after lines oh healthy looking Indians in wheelchairs to get into planes. These people must be stopped.
@ah last week I overheard 2 Indians talking to one another and one told the other one that he just had a 1 on 1 with their manager who is also Indian and he said that his manager told him his #1 goal is to get rid of the last few stupid US employees on the team and promises to bring in the other guy’s brother like they discussed few weeks back.
I happen to work on the same team as these guys. I quickly reported this to HR at Cigna but not going to hold my breath since I do not have any proof.
@p3 I had a similar experience where one if my Indian friends I was hanging out on a weekend going to different state parks. My friend noticed that when we stopped to gas up and also other places, I would ask if they offer a military veteran (because I am one) and then I would get a discount. My Indian friend said he was going to start doing that. I asked him if he was a military veteran and he replied that he was not. I abruptly told him, “Well, then you cannot do that; it is not right.” He looked at me and chuckled and asked me, “What is it to you?” Which I replied, “It is a slap in the face to all that DID serve!” Again, he chuckled.
If you are an American business or ever start one, if someone asks you if you offer a military veteran discount, always ask them to show proof. Military veterans will not be offended at all, as they all go down to the county clerk’s office and show their DD214 as proof of military service and county clerk’s office then outs “Veteran” just below their picture on the veteran’s driver’s license for proof. And it is recorded in county clerk office.
Point is, I agree with you. I think maybe there is an ingrained mentality built in at India with some philosophical thoughts on what truth is, that Indians carry with them over here to America. I think their philosophy is to do whatever it takes to survive and truth in their minds is relative on circumstance for opportunity.
Gaining the upper hand in any transaction through fraud/deception is a point of pride in that backwards culture. It’s a feature.
@ah I have few great Indian friends who are in their 30s and in perfect health and I thought they were great until I saw 2 of them at the airport lining up and sat in wheel chairs along with 50 other Indians who are also did not look like they were handicapped. These people were trying to scam the system just to get on flight faster.
What they didn’t realize was because of the 50 wheelchair, it bogged down the whole entire process for everyone else.
This is Indian’s mentality: they scam at anything to take advantage of others and will steal your jobs.
@j6 Just because a system is technically working, doesn’t mean it is good nor should continue.
If I had in my home a backup generator that technically worked when needed during a power outage but that same working generator produced 5% carbon monoxide into the air of my home, don’t really think that I would want to keep that technically working generator.
@j0 In all legitimate ways, the saved $20k and $48k become the company’s profits, pushing up the stock prices, enriching the shareholders, including ordinary people’s 401k accounts, and of course many executives and CEOs. They can also make more generous donations to politicians. It’s a so complicated system that has worked for decades. Let’s see what happens after cutting off the foreign workers. Can anyone predict?
@ah Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you're earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you're making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I'm sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you're a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn't be in the United States of America to begin with”
@ea Then, seems like in a perfect world they should be locked up in prison for a type if insurrection or trader to one’s own country.
This is more for the midterms than fixing the real problems! Those H1B in Microsoft are just bad luck.
@b4 That's not how this works. Executives don't care about their "home country." They only care about what will make them the most money at the lowest cost. That's how they decide where to outsource. Period.
@b3 Incorrect.
@e7 H1B scam is far from over. Vance's announcement suspends PERM requests from these companies. H1B applications do not appear to be directly impacted. This is just the start & without a follow up targeting H1B specifically - I am doubtful will have as significant of an impact as it appears.
@ah H1-B scam is finally over. There is a God.
i suggest you also message Anthony D’Esposito in linked in.
i hope the govt tackles outsourcing too. H1b is just half the issue
for the complete press conference
https://www.youtube.com/live/7QAu9FOEOv8?is=89YNTeOXr4gLeGN9
@b1 it impacts. Today’s H1B employees will be the executives tomorrow, they will hire more their people, and outsource jobs to their home country!
@b1 actually it does make it more expensive and higher risk for crops to offshore
See a company like Infosys sends a small team of H-1B workers to a company like Cigna and they spend a year being trained and learning the system then the small team goes back to India and handles the work offshore
By restricting or freezing H-1B’s does make it more challenging and expensive to pull it off
It will be interesting to see how this administrations $100,000 new H-1B “fee”goes through the courts if they figure out how to get away with 100k “tax” on all H-1B that will also have a major negative effect on corps temp hiring cheap and trapped Labor coming from Other countries
Seen it first hand many times with many vendors
Interesting. But this does nothing to impact the real problem- outsourcing of US jobs overseas.
Send all the Indians home where they belong and stop them from escaping their poverty and stealing American jobs.
At Express Scripts 90% are now all Indians and management chain are all Indians. Guess who they will hire, their relatives and you get more Indians.
@a1 Apparently Cigna is not the worst.
and yet 100s hired by cigna
https://h1bhq.com/search?employerSlug=cigna-evernorth-services-inc-4&fiscalYear=2026&pageSize=25