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特朗普政府暂停微软及其他几家公司为通过H-1B签证计划雇佣的外籍员工申请永久居留权，指控它们利用该程序，用来自海外的廉价劳动力取代美国公民。
副总统J·D·万斯周四表示，在由他牵头领导的反欺诈专项调查小组主导的调查后，这家科技巨头是首批被无限期禁止参与劳工部PERM项目的公司之一。
该调查认定，微软去年裁员约6000名美国员工，与此同时却雇佣了6300名非美国公民，这些外籍员工均通过申请H-1B签证来到美国。
“H-1B签证是外籍人员进入美国的第一步，而PERM项目则是这些员工留在美国的途径，”万斯说道，“不幸的是，美国没有哪家公司比微软更滥用这一体系。”
万斯及其他政府高级官员指控微软在为外籍员工申请永久居留权时谎报用工需求，称该项目本应仅面向那些拥有“超专业”技能、在美国难以招聘到的员工。
相反，他们指责该公司主要利用该项目，用资质相当但薪资更低的移民取代熟练的美国员工，从事相同工作。
“欺诈行为在于，他们在申请该项目时作出的陈述从根本上就是不合法的，因此最终属于违法行为，”万斯说道。
微软未立即回应置评请求。
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万斯称微软暂停期限“将视情况而定”
但该公告立刻引发外界对政府此时瞄准微软的时机质疑。周四在另一场仪式上，唐纳德·特朗普总统将为微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉颁发国家技术与创新奖章。
根据美国专利商标局的说法，该奖章是美国科技领域最高荣誉，授予那些“为美国经济、环境和社会福祉作出杰出贡献”的人士。
万斯淡化了政府在同一天既表彰微软成就、又因欺诈指控惩罚该公司的决定。
“我们向微软传递的信息并非想要损害贵公司，而是希望贵公司蓬勃发展，但我们希望其发展依靠雇佣并赋能美国同胞，”他说道，“因此我们将继续支持微软，与微软保持良好合作关系，但同时也将剥夺它们申请这类永久居留权的资格，直到它们展现出真正将美国员工放在首位的诚意。”
劳工部还将无限期暂停软件公司奥多比及多家IT外包公司参与PERM项目，这意味着它们提交的任何新的或待审批的员工永久居留申请都将不予受理。
万斯未明确说明这些公司恢复参与该项目的具体步骤，仅表示政府希望微软及其他公司“改变自身行为，改善运营表现，真正做到更好”。
此举是特朗普政府在中期选举前展现其打击政府“欺诈”行为的最新举措，将该问题描述为确保美国人公平获得就业机会和联邦福利的关键议题。
特朗普官员周四还宣布，计划单独调查多所大学，原因是它们被指控滥用J-1签证项目。该项目允许学校引进外籍人员作为学生、研究人员或教师。
万斯表示，根据该项目，官员们认为各高校经常雇佣外籍员工，以此压低本应支付给美国本土员工的薪资水平。
接受调查的大学包括哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、布朗大学、匹兹堡大学、加州大学戴维斯分校、加州理工学院、麻省理工学院以及亚利桑那州立大学。
Trump admin bars Microsoft and other tech companies from seeking permanent residency for foreign workers
2026-10-08T15:47:28.133Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/vance-fraud-microsoft-immigrant
The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft and some other companies from seeking permanent residency for foreign workers hired through the H-1B visa program, accusing them of taking advantage of the process so that they could replace American citizens with cheaper labor from abroad.
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the tech giant is one of a handful of companies to be barred indefinitely from the Labor Department’s PERM program following an investigation spearheaded by the anti-fraud task force that he chairs.
That probe determined that Microsoft laid off roughly 6,000 American workers last year, while at the same time employing 6,300 non-citizens that it had brought to the US by obtaining H-1B visas for them.
“The H-1B visa is how the people get into the United States in the first place, and then a PERM program is how those employees stay,” Vance said. “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft.”
Vance and other top administration officials alleged that Microsoft had misrepresented its needs in applying for permanent residency for its foreign workers, arguing that the program is meant only for workers with “hyper-specialized” skill sets that can’t be easily found in the US.
Instead, they accused the company of using the program primarily to replace skilled American employees with similarly qualified immigrants who it could pay less to do the same job.
“The fraud is that they’re making representations when applying for this program that are fundamentally illegitimate and therefore ultimately illegal,” Vance said.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Vance talks about Microsoft suspension lasting ‘as long as it needs to’
But the announcement raised immediate questions about the timing of the administration’s targeting of Microsoft. In a separate ceremony on Thursday, President Donald Trump is due to award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
The medal is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement and is awarded to those who make “outstanding contributions to America’s economic, environmental and social well-being,” according to the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Vance downplayed the administration’s decision to punish Microsoft over accusations of fraud on the same day that it hailed the company’s achievements.
“Our message to Microsoft is not that we want to harm your company, it’s that we want your company to thrive, but we want it to thrive by employing and empowering your fellow Americans,” he said. “So we’re going to continue to support Microsoft and have a great relationship with Microsoft, but we’re also going to deny them the ability to apply for these permanent residencies until they show that they are going to get serious about putting American workers first.”
The Labor Department is also indefinitely suspending software firm Adobe and several IT outsourcing firms from the PERM program, meaning that any new or pending requests for permanent residency for their workers will not be considered.
Vance did not lay out any specific steps for the companies to regain access to the process, saying only that it wanted Microsoft and others to “change their behavior, improve their behavior and actually get better.”
The move marks the Trump administration’s latest attempt to show it’s cracking down on instances of government “fraud” ahead of the midterm elections, framing the issue as critical to ensuring Americans have fair access to job opportunities and federal benefits.
Trump officials on Thursday also announced that they planned to separately investigate several universities over allegations of that they had abused the J-1 visa program, which allows them to bring in foreign nationals as students, researchers or teachers.
Under that program, Vance said, officials believe that schools regularly employ workers from abroad as a way to undercut the salaries that they would otherwise need to pay to Americans in those positions.
The universities under scrutiny are Harvard; Yale; Stanford; Brown; the University of Pittsburgh; the University of California, Davis; California Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Arizona State University.
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