Microsoft isn't the biggest user of this program, Amazon is: https://miserablyunemployed.com/market/h1b

mrweasel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Different program, but weird that you'd need that many visas in a market where so many US developers are unemployed.

	▲	alightsoul 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not weird, just cheaper labor.

glenngillen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's for H1B immigration visa applications. Those are not green cards.

	▲	jeremyjh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The first sentence of TFA: > President Donald Trump’s administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas Everything described in the article, is about H1-B. So yes, the action is preventing greencard applications for those H1-B visas, but that is functionally the same as restricting Microsoft's access to H1-Bs since a future green card sponsorship is the reason many are there working for them on that visa.

dominotw 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Suprised they didnt get amazon and oracle.

oh wait...