{"id":303850,"date":"2026-10-09T11:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=303850"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:54:06","slug":"the-white-house-has-accused-microsoft-and-several-other-major-companies-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/303850\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House has accused Microsoft and several other major companies of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft alongside other firms of committing fraud through the use of the H1b visa programme and a related process for workers from abroad to become permanent US residents.<\/p>\n

Vance claimed that Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies in the US, has been effectively replacing American workers with “foreign indentured servants.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft said most of the H1b visas filed over the last financial year were for existing workers, who are paid the same as local staff.<\/p>\n

“No company in the US has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vance said.<\/p>\n

The total number of H1b visas is capped at 85,000 per year.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Microsoft noted to the BBC that “the vast majority of Microsoft employees in the United States are Americans.” The company employs more than 200,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n

Vance put forward on Thursday that Microsoft had laid off about 6,000 workers and filed 6,800 H1b visa applications over the same period of time. He claimed this was evidence of the company using foreign workers to replace domestic workers and “undercut” their wages.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft spokeswoman said that 80% of the H1b visa filings the company has submitted over the last fiscal year were related to employees already working at Microsoft, not new hires.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"