Who is placing H-1B workers inside the VA Austin IT Center — the facility that controls veterans’ health records, financial data, and benefit systems for the entire country?

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We cross-referenced FY2026 H-1B visa filings against VA OIG Report 13-01730-159, the 2015 federal investigation that found contractors accessing VA systems from China and India on unencrypted personal laptops. Several of the same vendors are still filing H-1B applications for the same facility today.

Read the full investigation: https://guestworkervisas.com/va_aitc_h1b_report.php

Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services Workforce & H-1B Analysis

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DFPS caseworkers are chronically underpaid, routinely overloaded, and among the highest-turnover state employees in Texas. The agency has struggled for years to keep enough workers on staff to handle its caseloads. The state legislature has held hearings on it. Children have died because of it.

And yet the agency’s IT budget runs through ten H-1B staffing firms at an average of $105,704 per worker. One vendor filed a petition listing Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services as the worksite entity on what appears to be a Texas DFPS placement. Four petitions from a single vendor were all withdrawn after certification. Six case numbers appear in both Q1 and Q2. This is the largest agency in the series and its procurement data is the messiest.

https://guestworkervisas.com/dfps_analysis.php

Texas Department of Agriculture Workforce & H-1B Analysis

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The TDA serves Texas farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and the Future Farmers of America. Its 660 employees work on food safety, rural economic development, agriculture inspections, and the programs that support family farms across the state. Its IT operation, however, is staffed almost entirely through H-1B vendors — 11 visa workers from 5 outside firms, with 5 duplicate case numbers in just 11 petitions.

https://guestworkervisas.com/agriculture_analysis.php

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Workforce & H-1B Analysis

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This is the agency that collects Texas taxes, issues state payments, and maintains fiscal oversight over every other state agency. Its IT systems hold some of the most sensitive financial data in Texas government. And the H-1B petitions filed against it include a vendor who submitted a job title as “Sr. Software Doveloper” — the same misspelled title filed in both Q1 and Q2 alongside the correctly spelled version.

Whether that typo was accidental or a mechanism to avoid duplicate petition detection, it raises a serious question: who is vetting these vendors before they get access to the Comptroller’s systems? Five duplicate case numbers across just 13 petitions is a rate that should not exist in a properly managed procurement process.

https://guestworkervisas.com/comptroller_analysis.php

The Texas Office of the Attorney General runs the largest child support program in the country — collecting billions of dollars annually for Texas children and families who depend on it.

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That program runs on software.
And the software, it turns out, is being developed and architected by H-1B workers placed through outside staffing firms.
Only 4 H-1B placements appear for the OAG in FY2026 — far fewer than TxDOT — but the location matters.
Both placements target the Child Support Division, one as a Software Developer and one as a Cloud Architect.
These are skilled IT roles tied to a system that 4,050 OAG employees depend on daily, and that Texas families rely on for child support payments.
A duplicate petition flag on one of them raises additional questions about how these contracts are being managed.
guestworkervisas.com/oag_analysis.p