6,883 H-1B Visas Flooded Frisco Since 2020 — Are American Tech Workers Being Replaced?

Frisco, Texas, has emerged as a regional hub for H-1B visa approvals, with refreshed federal data showing several local employers dominating filings from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2025.

The latest figures, recently released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and compiled by The Dallas Express, indicate that Sage IT Inc led all petitioners in Frisco with 556 approved applications during the six-year span.

The Numbers Exposed

Frisco has attracted numerous tech and consulting firms seeking foreign labor, even as local and national unemployment for computer science graduates remains elevated.

The H-1B visa program allows U.S. employers to temporarily hire foreign workers for labor that typically requires at least a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. The top employers of H-1B labor in Frisco are the following:

*The asterisk indicates that the company name has been consolidated from multiple nearly identical entries.

The Legal Battles

Several companies on the list have been involved in legal challenges related to H-1B approvals, with plaintiffs often fighting against restrictions on the program.

Mythri Consulting LLC defeated USCIS in federal court to rescind various policies that increased the rejection rate of their petitions for H-1B workers, and Sage It Inc. also successfully sued the agency, challenging the denial of extensions for H-1B workers, during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.

EMC Consulting Group Inc has been involved in similar litigation, although one federal case in Texas was dismissed in January 2026.

SAGE’s filings in Frisco in 2025 included 36 Labor Condition Applications (LCA), with more than half for software developer or software engineer positions. Salaries for these roles ranged from $84,094 to $106,000, according to the privately operated H-1B Salary database. Other positions with different salary ranges included integration architects, data engineers, and technical architects.

An LCA application indicates that an employer took the first steps to attempt to acquire an H-1B worker, but the application alone does not mean that their request was approved.

SAGE’s hiring has occurred amid elevated national unemployment in the tech sector. A fall 2025 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that unemployment among computer engineers was 7.5%, with underemployment at 17%. For computer science graduates, the unemployment rate was reportedly 6.1%, with underemployment at 16.5 percent.

These figures followed tech industry-wide layoffs in Texas.

Frisco’s 6,883 H-1B Workers

Frisco City Council meetings have recently become a hotbed of debate over the merits of the H-1B visa program, as locals raise concerns about demographic shifts and their effects on jobs. 72% of H-1B visas are awarded to workers from India, with 12% going to those from China, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services annual data.

The total H-1B beneficiary population in Frisco between 2020 and 2025 was 6,883, according to the new USCIS data. The total population of Frisco was 200,000 in the last Census.

Frisco City Councilman Burt Thakur, elected in 2025 as the city’s first Indian American council member, has previously addressed concerns over H-1B hiring in the city. In January, he rejected claims linking local officials to immigration fraud or demographic manipulation, emphasizing that H-1B oversight is a federal responsibility. Thakur told The Dallas Express.

Supporters of the H-1B visa program, including Ohio Republican gubernatorial contender Vivek Ramaswamy, have reportedly argued that it is necessary because “American culture has venerated mediocrity,” and that foreign workers better fit industry demands.

However, some evidence suggests that H-1B workers are cheaper than their American counterparts. “On average, H-1B workers earn 16 percent less than comparable natives,” a recent working paper, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, said.

H-1B Visas & Texas Housing Market

The updated data comes amid ongoing scrutiny of H-1B’s impact on the Texas housing market.

In March 2025, a federal directive announced that H-1B workers would no longer be eligible for FHA-insured loans.

The Dallas Express filed a Freedom of Information Act request to determine how many H-1B workers had FHA-insured loans in Texas, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development told the outlet in a letter that it categorically “does not collect citizenship or residency data from the loan application and therefore does not maintain information on the number of non-permanent residents who have received FHA-insured loans under past policies.”

Previous reporting by The Dallas Express has noted similar data in Austin, where tech heavyweights like Oracle and Tesla dominate H-1B filings, reflecting a broader statewide pattern.

SAGE did not respond to The Dallas Express’ request for comment by the time of publication.