Eight employers are named
The October 8 announcement covers Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe. The action concerns their participation in the Permanent Labor Certification programme, commonly called PERM.
New and pending PERM applications are affected
US Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling said the department would neither accept new nor process pending permanent labour-certification applications involving these companies. That is the announced scope of the application freeze.
PERM is one stage of a longer process
For many employer-sponsored green-card cases, labour certification precedes an immigration petition to USCIS. Certification itself is not a green card, and not every employment-based category requires it.
A visa is a separate document
The PERM announcement should not be read as proof that every affected employee's existing H-1B visa or green card has been cancelled. Individual consequences depend on the person's documents, application stage and relevant notices.
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