Amazon filed 20,645 certified H-1B applications in FY2026. The person responsible: Andy Jassy, President and Chief Executive Officer. 23.7% are at Level I (entry) wage.
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One Name on the Notice: A Web of LLCs Behind It
A Kimble County liquor permit notice named one man as the LLC member behind a pending TABC beer-and-wine permit. Pulling every Comptroller filing tied to that applicant found it’s one of 13 same-address, same-officer-pool LLCs already holding 25 retail alcohol permits across Texas — and it’s an ongoing series, updated as we find more.
Why 2003: The Data Behind One Story, and a Paper Trail of Federal Findings
2003 was the year I stopped being able to find work in my own field. That’s a personal claim, not a data point — so this report keeps the two separate. What BLS’s own numbers show: women’s labor force participation peaked in April 2000 and, as of August 2026, sits below where it was in 1990. The H-1B cap was tripled to 195,000 a year right as the dot-com bust hit U.S. tech workers, and GAO itself was flagging the tracking gap in a report published in September 2003. And from a $34 million DOJ settlement with Infosys in 2013 through a $3.2 million one with OpenAI in August 2026 — plus an ongoing federal jury finding against Cognizant and an active caste-discrimination case against Cisco — the paper trail of companies found to have preferred visa holders over Americans keeps growing.
Two Surveys, One Chart: Fact-Checking the 98-of-100-Jobs Claim
A chart went viral this week claiming “98 of 100 new American jobs” in August went to women — 158,000 for women, just 4,000 for men. The 162,000 total is real. The 12-month numbers are real. But that monthly split doesn’t appear in any BLS table we can find, and the actual household-survey number for August shows the opposite: men gained more jobs than women that month. Here’s exactly which BLS tables say what, with direct links so you can check it yourself.
https://guestworkervisas.com/two_surveys_one_viral_chart.php
The State Calls It Staff Aug. We Mapped It Against H-1B Filings.
Texas agencies buy the same IT-staffing program under dozens of different contract labels ITSAC, Staff Aug, FY26AUGR, Temporary Personnel Services which means a keyword search for ITSAC alone misses most of the market. We built a synonym-based match across every label, found 414 active statewide staffing-vendor relationships across 62 agencies, and cross-referenced all of them against federal H-1B sponsorship data.
122 vendors are also H-1B sponsors. Nine have H-1B sponsorship that is 100 percent concentrated in Texas. We independently verified two of their certified workers filed worksite addresses against public government-building directories they are state agency headquarters.
$44 Million In Texas Contracts. Zero H-1B Filings.
Bansar Technologies own HUB Subcontracting Plan names 23 IT-staffing subcontractors and exactly how much of a Texas state contract each one gets. We ran all 23 against a decade of federal visa-sponsorship data. The HUB credit and the actual H-1B labor go to almost entirely different companies — and one HUB subcontractor with no visa footprint turns out to be running $44 million of its own, completely separate Texas state business.
The Vendor Changes. The Worker Doesn’t.
We found three named individuals who kept working the exact same Texas state agency role after the company billing for their time changed — not subcontracting, but vendor succession: a new, separate state contract awarded to a different staffing company, same worker, no gap.
Who Actually Files for H-1B Workers? Government Is Almost Nobody
We broke down all 437,496 FY2026 H-1B labor applications by employer type — government agencies, universities, K-12 schools, and private business — plus a size and legal-dependency split inside the private sector.
The headline: true state, local, and federal government agencies filed just 499 applications directly. Even after tracing contractor placements at government worksites (IT staffing firms placing workers inside state agencies, and a separate niche of therapy-staffing firms placing H-1B occupational and speech therapists in school districts), the government footprint only reaches 0.73% of all filings.
The bigger, harder story is inside the private sector: 102 large filers — 0.18% of private employers — account for 64% of all positions requested, and DOL’s own legal ‘H-1B dependent’ designation turns out to track the ‘Intel good, Infosys bad’ distinction far better than company size does.
CGI’s H-1B Playbook: The Same 50-Worker Filing, From Texas to California
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. filed 17,046 H-1B worker positions in FY2026 — the 4th-largest H-1B footprint of any employer in the country. The same identical-terms, 50-worker batch petition it runs for PNC Financial and Fidelity Investments also runs at state government agencies in Texas, California, New York, Nevada, and Virginia. At TxDOT alone, CGI’s H-1B headcount went from 2 workers in FY2025 to 101 in FY2026 — a 50x jump in one year.
This is a follow-on to our Texas Agency Series (TxDOT, the Attorney General’s Office, the Comptroller, Agriculture, and DFPS).
https://guestworkervisas.com/cgi_technologies_state_government_h1b.php
Gabon Protected Its Workers by Law in 1975. America Doesn’t, in 2026.
At sixteen, working an oilfield crew in Port-Gentil, Gabon, I was made supervisor — not because I’d earned it, but because Gabonese law reserved ordinary labor jobs for Gabonese nationals and only let foreigners in through supervisory work-permit slots. That rule is still on the books today: Gabon’s oil and mining sector runs on a legal 85% domestic-workforce floor. The H-1B program has no floor at all.