H-1B

Who Actually Files for H-1B Workers? Government Is Almost Nobody

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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.

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CGI’s H-1B Playbook: The Same 50-Worker Filing, From Texas to California

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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.

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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.

https://guestworkervisas.com/gabon_1975_vs_america_now.php

Who’s Supplying H-1B Labor Inside DOL’s Own Headquarters?

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Every certified H-1B application discloses the worker’s physical worksite, by law. We matched that field directly against the Department of Labor’s own headquarters address and found 171 placements from 46 staffing and IT firms since FY2020 — then checked the top repeat placers against USASpending.gov. Most have no public federal contract on record at all.

https://guestworkervisas.com/dol_hq_h1b_contractors.php

Abbott’s H-1B Ban Just Reached Schools. It Still Hasn’t Reached $743 Million in State Contractors

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Gov. Abbott has now told two different kinds of taxpayer-funded institutions, seven months apart, that they shouldn’t be paying for H-1B labor: state agencies and universities in January, public schools in August. Both times the stated reason is the same: taxpayer money.

Neither order touches the largest taxpayer-funded H-1B channel we’ve found: private state contractors. Fourteen confirmed H-1B-sponsoring vendors have been paid $743.2 million across 1,916 Texas state contracts since 2013 — and 11 of those 14 vendors won new state contract awards on or after the day Abbott’s freeze took effect.

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State Never Published FY2025 Visa Data, So We Rebuilt It

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The State Department still hasn’t published its FY2025 nonimmigrant visa class-of-admission table, nearly eleven months after the fiscal year closed. Its monthly issuance reports kept publishing on schedule though, so we pulled and parsed all twelve ourselves and reconstructed the FY2025 numbers — H-1B, H-2A, H-2B and 74 other classes — now loaded into our visa data browser alongside every year back to 1987.

https://guestworkervisas.com/state_dept_fy2025_niv_reconstruction.php

Same Position, New Competitive Contract: Texas Recycles Its H-1B Staffing Awards

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A deep dive on four H-1B-heavy staffing vendors from our staff-augmentation report finds the same HHSC position numbers — and in two cases the same worker’s surname — recurring across separate fiscal-year contracts, each one re-labeled ‘Competitive.’ Along the way, correcting a subject-line filter that missed every ITSAC-labeled contract nearly doubles what we previously reported these four vendors were paid: from $32.1M to $62.8M.

https://guestworkervisas.com/tx_itsac_position_recycling.php

No Law Against It? The Actual Legal Landscape Around H-1B Displacement

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Told there’s no law stopping a Texas state contractor from staffing its work almost entirely with H-1B workers instead of Americans? We went through the actual statutes — IRCA’s citizenship-discrimination ban, the H-1B non-displacement attestation, the 2017 Buy American Hire American executive order, and Texas’s own contractor rules — to see what each really requires, who enforces it, and where each one’s reach stops.

https://guestworkervisas.com/h1b_displacement_legal_landscape.php