Texas Dept. of Transportation Workforce & H-1B Analysis

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For generations, a job at TxDOT meant something. It meant your kids could go to college. It meant a pension and health insurance in a state that doesn’t offer much of either. It was one of the clearest on-ramps into the middle class available to working Texans — Black, Hispanic, White, and Native American families alike built careers there.

The data below shows that 132 H-1B workers are currently placed at TxDOT through 13 outside staffing and consulting firms. The largest single vendor, CGI Technologies, holds 100 petitions — 50 filed each quarter — all for the same job title at the same wage. Those are IT positions that Texas workers could fill. Nobody in Austin, San Antonio, or El Paso got a phone call first.

https://guestworkervisas.com/txdot_analysis.php

The Irony Writes Itself

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been making headlines for months investigating H-1B visa fraud. He launched a sweeping probe in January 2026, issued Civil Investigative Demands to nearly 30 North Texas companies, sued at least one of them, and has been very public about his intention to stop what he calls abuse of the H-1B program.

So I started looking at who is staffing the H-1B workers inside his own office.

What I found is sitting right there in the Department of Labor’s public disclosure database — the Labor Condition Applications that every H-1B employer is required to file. No hacking, no leaks, no anonymous sources. Just public records.

Here is what those records show.

Three separate companies filed H-1B applications in 2026 to place Software Developers and Software Engineers at the Office of the Attorney General, Child Support Division, in Austin, Texas at zip code 78741. All three certified workers at exactly $115,000 per year — Level II prevailing wage, not a penny more. All three filings were approved.

The three companies are:

3Core Systems, Inc. — headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. Not a Texas company. They hold a Texas DIR contract (DIR-CPO-5614) for IT staff augmentation, signed by their President and CEO Navin Kandula. That contract is the vehicle that allows them to place workers inside any Texas state agency, including the OAG, without a separate competitive bid.

MAXPRO INC — based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Not a Texas company. Their website is maxprous.com and their HR contact is hr@maxprous.com. Every job opening listed on their website is in Michigan. Yet they have two certified H-1B filings placing Software Engineers inside the Texas Office of the Attorney General in Q1 and Q2 of 2026. We could find no active Texas DIR contract for MAXPRO INC and no record of them in the Texas Comptroller’s contract database. How they obtained a placement inside a state agency without a contract vehicle is a question the OAG should be able to answer.

tekAssembly Corporation — also placing Software Developers at the OAG, listed as remote but designating the OAG as the secondary entity. Two filings, same wage, same pattern.

To be clear about what the Child Support Division does: it is not a division that the OAG merely oversees. The OAG directly operates the state’s child support enforcement program. Those H-1B workers are inside Ken Paxton’s office, doing software development work, employed by out-of-state staffing companies, paid the legal minimum wage under the H-1B program.

Meanwhile, Paxton’s office issued this statement in January 2026 when launching his H-1B investigation: “I will not allow the H-1B program to be abused by bad actors seeking to use it as a loophole for allowing foreign nationals to invade Texas.”

I am not a lawyer and I am not saying anyone broke the law. What I am saying is that the same public records system that Paxton’s investigators are presumably using to build their cases against those 30 North Texas companies shows the exact same staffing pattern operating inside his own office — out-of-state companies, H-1B workers, minimum prevailing wages, placed into a Texas government agency.

If the H-1B program is being used as a loophole, it is being used as a loophole everywhere. Including at 300 West 15th Street in Austin.

All of this is sourced to public records. The H-1B filings are searchable at GuestWorkerVisas.com. The 3Core DIR contract is DIR-CPO-5614, available at dir.texas.gov. The MAXPRO vendor page at DIR shows no active contract. The Paxton press releases are on the OAG’s own website.

I am a 68-year-old man living on $1,419 a month in Social Security, doing this research one public database at a time because nobody else is connecting these dots. If you find this useful, please share it.

Virgil Bierschwale — GuestWorkerVisas.com

How One H-1B Filing Led Us Down a $400 Million Rabbit Hole at the FDA — and Right Into the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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It started with a single piece of paper.

A company called iStream Solutions, Inc., based in Ashburn, Virginia, filed an H-1B visa application on March 16, 2026, for a worker with the job title “Software Architect.” The application was certified a week later. The worker’s salary was set at exactly $150,758 per year — not a dollar more than the prevailing wage required by law.

That last detail matters. When an employer pays exactly the prevailing wage and not a cent above it, they are doing the legal minimum. They are not competing for talent. They are using the visa program to lock in a price.

But here is what made this filing worth following: the worksite listed on the application was not iStream Solutions’ office in Ashburn. The worksite was 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland — the headquarters of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS is the agency that publishes the unemployment numbers, the jobs reports, and the wage data that the rest of this site is built on. Every month, when the government announces how many jobs were created or lost, that number comes from BLS. And according to this H-1B filing, a worker employed by an H-1B-dependent IT staffing company is doing software architecture work inside that building right now.

That was interesting enough. But the H-1B filing also told us something else — iStream Solutions is flagged as an H-1B dependent employer. That is a legal designation that means the majority of the company’s workforce is made up of H-1B visa holders. Companies with that designation are supposed to face additional requirements before they can bring in more foreign workers. They are supposed to certify that they tried to hire Americans first.

The application says they did. We have no way to verify that.

Following the Money

When we looked iStream Solutions up in USASpending.gov — the federal government’s official database of contract awards — we found something unexpected.

For a company that has been operating since 2005, placing IT workers in federal agencies, iStream Solutions has almost no footprint as a prime contractor. Their entire direct contract history amounts to a GSA schedule listing worth $0 in actual obligations, a $500 test order from the Missile Defense Agency, and a COVID PPP loan.

Five hundred dollars. That is the sum total of what the federal government has paid iStream Solutions directly.

But then we looked at the subaward records — the contracts-underneath-the-contracts — and found something very different. Six payments, all from the same contract, all for the same work: “software lifecycle activities and deliverables required by FDA.” Total paid to iStream as a subcontractor: $16.3 million, running continuously from 2021 through May 2026.

The prime contractor — the company that won the FDA contract and hired iStream to do the work — is REI Systems, Inc., based in Sterling, Virginia.

REI Systems: The Company in the Middle

REI Systems is not a small shop. When we pulled their full federal contract history, we found $592 million in obligated contracts across 85 awards, spanning GSA, HHS, NASA, the Treasury Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Defense, and more.

Their biggest single contract relationship is with the Food and Drug Administration. In May 2021, the FDA awarded REI Systems an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity contract — contract number 75F40121A00019 — to provide software development, operations, and maintenance for FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs systems, including their criminal investigations and imports enforcement platforms. The ceiling on that contract is $400 million.

Under that contract, REI Systems has collected at least $113 million through three visible task orders so far. And under those task orders, REI Systems paid iStream Solutions $16.3 million to provide the workers who actually do the software work.

So the structure looks like this:

FDA pays REI Systems → REI Systems pays iStream Solutions → iStream Solutions pays an H-1B worker → that worker shows up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Each layer takes a cut. The worker at the end of the chain receives exactly the legal minimum wage for their position.

Why This Matters

This is not a story about one company or one contract. This is how a very large portion of federal IT staffing actually works.

A medium-to-large federal contractor — in this case REI Systems — wins a big contract from a federal agency. The contract is broad enough to cover many types of software work. The prime contractor then subcontracts portions of the actual work to smaller IT staffing firms. Those staffing firms — like iStream — are often H-1B dependent, meaning their business model depends on placing foreign workers rather than hiring American software developers.

The H-1B filing is the one mandatory public disclosure that names the staffing firm. Without it, you would never know iStream was involved. REI Systems shows up in USASpending. iStream does not — at least not as a prime contractor. The only way to find them is through the subaward records, which are poorly reported and rarely searched, or through the H-1B Labor Condition Application database, which most people don’t know exists.

We found them because we were looking at a single H-1B filing that happened to name the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the worksite.

One More Detail Worth Noting

Among REI Systems’ 85 federal contracts is this one: contract 47QDCB20F0018, awarded by the General Services Administration, obligated value $52 million, for the development, operations, and maintenance of SAM.gov — the federal government’s own contracting transparency database. The same database where the public is supposed to be able to look up who is getting federal contracts and for how much.

The company that helps build and maintain that transparency system is also the prime contractor whose subcontractor is staffing H-1B workers into the agency that publishes America’s jobs numbers.

We are not suggesting that is improper. We are saying it is worth knowing.

All of the source documents for this post are public record. The H-1B filing is case number I-200-26075-706343, available through the Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure database. The USASpending records were downloaded directly from usaspending.gov. REI Systems’ contract history is searchable by their UEI number YRNMVN96JC17. iStream Solutions’ UEI is LUNZWEKSRN76.

Virgil Bierschwale — GuestWorkerVisas.com

Federal Government Spending with the keyword Staffing for 2026

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Ironic isn’t it?

The Texas Workforce Commission operating under the watchful eyes of the Attorney General received the second largest expenditure of Unemployment Insurance from the federal government to help get Texans off of unemployment and to sustain them until they do get off.

Many unemployable Texans like myself did not receive unemployment and are still unemployed even though we have graduated from multiple retraining programs.

But as you have seen by my other work, the Texas Workforce Commission has a lot of foreign contractors and foreign employees leaving Texans high and dry or essentially floating down the river of ???? without a paddle.

This report shows all U.S. Government agencies with the keyword staffing for 2026. I think you might want to read it.

guestworkervisas.com/gov_staffing_s