The US has suspended Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL and other major IT firms from the green card labour certification programme. Microsoft and Adobe are included. New and pending permanent labour applications involving these companies are frozen. Existing H-1B visas are not cancelled, but the path to permanent residency is now blocked for new cases. The numbers cited are large: hundreds of thousands of H-1B approvals and permanent certifications over the years. Washington frames it as protecting American workers. Indian IT firms face higher uncertainty and compliance pressure. Talent mobility is not a right. It is a policy choice that can tighten overnight. When the largest employers of Indian tech talent lose access to the green card route, the model that relied on long-term US deployment starts to feel more temporary.