US suspends Microsoft, other tech firms from green card sponsorship program

This targets the pipeline that converts skilled tech workers from temporary visas into permanent residency, so its reach extends beyond the named companies to the broader industry that relies on the same route. The parallel scrutiny of universities over J-1 compliance signals the pressure is not confined to employers. Whether the suspension stays limited to these firms or becomes a wider pattern is the open question, and it lands squarely on talent-mobility assumptions that crypto and RWA teams, many of them built on immigrant engineers, have long taken for granted.