India, Oct. 9 -- US suspends Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL from green card programme

The Trump administration has widened its crackdown on foreign-worker programmes, suspending major Indian IT companies, including Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and HCL, along with Cognizant and Capgemini, from the US programme employers use to sponsor skilled foreign workers for permanent residency.

US labor secretary Keith Sonderling said the Department of Labor was suspending the companies from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) programme, citing alleged misuse of the system. The department also suspended Microsoft and Adobe and said it would not process new or pending labour-certification applications from the affected companies.

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