By QUASA Editorial Team
Publication Date: 2026-10-10 17:00:00
At an October 8, 2026, news conference in Washington, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced the suspension of Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services firms from the Permanent Labor Certification program, known as PERM. The Labor Department will stop accepting new applications and processing pending applications involving those employers. That interrupts an employer-sponsored route toward permanent residence for affected workers.
The action does not suspend the H-1B program or revoke existing H-1B visas. Someone already working for a named employer in valid H-1B status does not lose that authorization because a PERM application has stopped moving. The immediate change concerns labor certification for a proposed permanent job, including cases the employer has already filed.
Which employers are affected
The six firms named alongside Microsoft and Adobe are Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini. The restriction applies to labor-certification…
