{"id":1048479,"date":"2026-11-11T07:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048479"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:59:52","slug":"ibm-to-end-visa-green-card-sponsorship-for-most-roles-in-its-consulting-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/11\/ibm-to-end-visa-green-card-sponsorship-for-most-roles-in-its-consulting-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to end visa, green card sponsorship for most roles in its Consulting arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said on Tuesday that it was ending US visa and green card sponsorship for a majority of roles in IBM Consulting, which employs more than 150,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes amid tight scrutiny of foreign tech hiring by Donald Trump&#8217;s administration. Last month, it suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several major outsourcers, including Cognizant, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, from the Permanent Labor Certification process &#8211; a key step toward green cards for foreign workers. <\/p>\n<p>IBM Consulting has used US high-skilled visa programs to address skill shortages, but participation has been declining for years, a company spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said on Tuesday that it was ending US visa and green card sponsorship for a majority of roles in IBM Consulting, which employs more than 150,000 people. The move comes amid tight scrutiny of foreign tech hiring by Donald Trump&#8217;s administration. Last month, it suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several major outsourcers, including Cognizant, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, from the Permanent Labor Certification process &#8211; a key step toward green cards for foreign workers. IBM Consulting has used US high-skilled visa programs to address skill shortages, but participation has been declining for years, a company spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048479","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048497,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048479\/revisions\/1048497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}