On October 8, 2026, the suspended eight tech companies from , the program that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for .
At the same news conference, Vice President JD Vance singled out , saying it replaced the 6,000 workers it laid off in 2025 with people on work visas.
The suspension hits green-card sponsorship, not H-1B hiring. The visa Vance is complaining about is untouched.
and were the two biggest H-1B sponsors, and .
was a close third, with 6,258 approvals in fiscal 2025, behind Amazon's 19,178 and Meta's 6,294.
The numbers cut both ways for Vance. Microsoft did get more than 6,000 H-1B approvals, but .
Amazon brought in nearly four times as many H-1B workers new to the company, and it was not on the suspension list.
was the smallest suspended company, at No. 45. All eight rank among the top 50 H-1B sponsors, and most are IT services and consulting firms.
The crackdown went past tech. , the Labor Department's , announced an investigation into alleged visa fraud involving nine major American universities.