The brief
Vice President JD Vance alleged the H-1B visa program is “rife with fraud,” accusing Microsoft of laying off thousands of Americans and replacing them with foreign-born workers. The US government suspended Microsoft and several other IT firms from a permanent residency programme for skilled foreign workers due to alleged fraud, while also investigating nine top universities. Key points and original sources are listed below.
- Vice President JD Vance alleged the H-1B visa program is “rife with fraud,” accusing Microsoft of laying off thousands of Americans and replacing them with foreign-born workers.S1
- The US government suspended Microsoft and several other IT firms from a permanent residency programme for skilled foreign workers due to alleged fraud, while also investigating nine top universities.S2
- "If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said.S3
