{"id":1042154,"date":"2026-10-09T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042154"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:06:58","slug":"cant-replace-american-workers-with-foreign-servants-why-vances-h-1b-visa-axe-fell-on-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/cant-replace-american-workers-with-foreign-servants-why-vances-h-1b-visa-axe-fell-on-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Can&#8217;t replace American workers with foreign servants\u2019: Why Vance&#8217;s H-1B visa axe fell on Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US vice president JD Vance has suspended Microsoft from a green-card programme that helps companies sponsor foreign employees for permanent residency. This follows scrutiny over the tech giant\u2019s hiring practices and its use of the H-1B visa system.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said Microsoft laid off around 6,000 American workers in 2025. He also cited more than 6,000 H-1B approvals and nearly 3,000 green cards linked to the company. He said the numbers raised serious questions about how American workers were being treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US vice president JD Vance has suspended Microsoft from a green-card programme that helps companies sponsor foreign employees for permanent residency. This follows scrutiny over the tech giant\u2019s hiring practices and its use of the H-1B visa system. Vance said Microsoft laid off around 6,000 American workers in 2025. He also cited more than 6,000 H-1B approvals and nearly 3,000 green cards linked to the company. He said the numbers raised serious questions about how American workers were being treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042155,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042154\/revisions\/1042155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}