Green Cards red-carded: MAGA benches India-linked IT firms from PERM process

TOI Correspondent from Washington: The Trump administration on Thursday suspended eight major Indian or strongly India-linked tech companies from the US program used by employers to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residence (green card), a move that could affect tens of thousands of Indian IT professionals.The administration also announced investigations into nine universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, over allegations that international students and foreign workers are being used to reduce labour costs or compromise federally funded research.In more strikes against global companies and foreigners, mainly Indians, accused of "stealing American jobs,” Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling, with veep JD Vance standing alongside, announced that the Department of Labour was suspending Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe from the Permanent Labour Certification, or PERM, program.PERM is an important step in the employment-based green-card process; before sponsoring most foreign workers for employment-based permanent residence, an employer must generally obtain…