Several major tech companies are not getting their H-1B approvals from the Trump administration.
Immigration attorney Emily Neumann said she has been seeing multiple cases of H-1B petitions from three tech giants not getting approved on time. Neumann said Cognizant, Infosys, and Microsoft at the moment are experiencing H-1B issues but she was certain that it would continue and would spread to other companies as well — and it was not just a coincidence.
Vice President JD Vance, who is a top speculative candidate for the presidential race in 2028, wants to end the H-1B visa program, Reddy said, adding that the top three tech companies seeing the H-1B petitions stuck sends out a clear message. H-1B lottery is no longer purely random; it is wage-based. $100,000 H-1B fee has become a major legal battle, though it is blocked by the court. DHS has proposed a permanent $103,265 H-1B fee, separate from the contentious $100K fee. More scrutiny for companies that have laid off US workers: A September 18 executive order directed the Departments of Labor, Homeland Security and State to consider whether an H-1B sponsoring employer has recently laid off, or plans to lay off, similarly situated US workers. JD Vance’s White House fraud task force is targeting H-1B abuse: Vice President JD Vance is chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, created by President Donald Trump in March 2026.
Neumann said all these three companies are the highest sponsors of H-1B visas and their H-1B extensions and H-1B transfers are stuck with USCIS. I would expect it to continue and spread to other companies,” Neumann said. Immigration attorney Rahul Reddy said the Donald Trump administration does not want the H-1B visa program and it is clear. Reddy and Neumann said first Cognizant faced the heat: they filed H-1B extensions, applied for premium processing but the approvals did not come on time and now Infosys and Microsoft are seeing the same issue.
The government has not issued any clarification but it could be tied to past layoffs; ongoing extensions into the alleged H-1B fraud. “The USCIS, the DHS, the DOL all have tiplines to report H-1B fraud, and this delay could be tied to any investigation. The Trump administration extended the fee for another year. The proposal was published in August and would apply to cap-subject H-1B petitions. The task force is broader than immigration: its mandate covers fraud, waste and abuse across federal programmes. But H-1B and other foreign-worker programmes have become a major enforcement focus. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.