PERM ·
DOL suspends eight companies from the PERM program
On October 8, 2026, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, joined by Vice President JD Vance, announced that the Department of Labor suspended Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capgemini from the PERM labor certification program, citing multiple active federal investigations.
Confirmed
- DOL will not accept new PERM applications from these eight companies.
- PERM applications these companies already filed will not be processed while the suspension is in place.
- No end date was announced.
Still unclear
- Whether PERM certifications that were already approved, and I-140 petitions based on them, are affected. Some reports say they are not, but DOL has not published written guidance.
- How long the suspension will last.
- DOL had not posted a formal notice on its foreign labor certification announcements page as of October 8, 2026.
Prevailing wage requests in the pipeline
| Company | PWDs issued | Employer names counted |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 555 | Microsoft Corporation |
| Adobe | 226 | Adobe Inc. |
| Capgemini | 30 | Capgemini America, Inc. |
| HCL Technologies | 17 | HCL America, Inc.; HCL America Solutions, Inc. |
| Tata Consultancy Services | 1 | Tata Consultancy Services Limited |
| Cognizant | 0 | No matching employer name |
| Infosys | 0 | No matching employer name |
| Wipro | 0 | No matching employer name |
PWD is the step before PERM. These are prevailing wage determinations DOL issued under each company's name from October 2025 to June 2026, counted by the exact employer names shown. Employers must start PERM recruitment before a PWD expires, so these jobs would typically be in recruitment or have a pending PERM application now, the stages this suspension holds. The data does not show which of these jobs reached PERM. Unrelated companies with similar names are not included.