On Friday, Tata Consultancy Services announced it would keep hiring 15,000 U.S. employees over the next five years, saying the Trump administration’s suspension of the PERM program would not derail its strategy.
The PERM halt followed the Department of Labor’s decision to stop new and pending applications for eight firms, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, Cognizant, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe, a move that triggered a flurry of industry backlash.
In a statement, TCS said it would comply with any directive from the Department of Labor and emphasized its local hiring focus across 31 U.S. offices, arguing that its PERM applications had been in single digits over the past two years.
Representative Pramila Jayapal blasted the suspension as an attack on legal immigration pathways, while Vice President J.D. Vance defended the tech giants, labeling their labor practices as “socialist” and insisting the companies had no abuse.
The administration is also probing nine universities—Harvard, Yale and Stanford among them—for alleged misuse of international students to cut costs, a claim that adds pressure on the tech sector’s talent pipeline.
TCS plans to submit a formal request to resume PERM filings by the end of the month, and the Department of Labor is expected to issue guidance on how affected firms can navigate the new restrictions.