McKinney’s H-1B Powerhouses: IT Companies Dominate Visa Rankings 2020-2025

A cluster of little-known technology firms topped H-1B visa approvals in McKinney from 2020 through 2025, according to newly refreshed federal data compiled by The Dallas Express.

The latest figures from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services H-1B Employer Data Hub show the top 25 employers listing McKinney as their city between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2025. The newly updated dataset includes approvals from the final months of 2025 that were not previously reflected in earlier releases.

The Dallas Express compiled and consolidated the refreshed data to account for minor variations in company names across filings.

V3Tech Solutions Inc ranked first among McKinney-based employers with 205 H-1B approvals over the six-year span. Executive Software Guild Inc followed closely with 202 approvals, and Delta System and Software Inc placed third with 196.

Top H1B Employers in McKinney

*Indicates that the company name was consolidated with a nearly identical entry in the provided document (minor variations in punctuation, abbreviation such as “&” vs. “AND”, or added wording such as “INC.”). The data is also a consolidation of several different spellings of McKinney, including but not limited to Mc Kinney and McKinnney.

Unlike larger Texas cities, where multinational corporations and public universities dominate H-1B usage, McKinney’s top petitioners are primarily IT consulting and software services firms.

The numbers reflect approved petitions only and do not include denials or pending cases. They also capture only those employers that listed “McKinney” as their city in federal filings and do not include surrounding communities.

Nationally, approximately 72% of H-1B visas are awarded to workers from India, with roughly 12% going to workers from China, according to annual federal data published by USCIS.

The H-1B program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in certain occupations that typically require at least a bachelor’s degree.

Tech titans and proponents of the program, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, have argued it is essential for recruiting elite engineering talent. “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk posted on his platform, X, in 2024.

However, critics of the program point to recent discrimination cases from a federal court in California. In December, a federal judge ruled that certain policies from Cognizant Technology Solutions had a disparate impact on some U.S. workers, according to prior reporting by The Dallas Express.

Filings in the lawsuit alleged that the company engineered a workforce dominated by Indian and other H-1B holders, and that this policy included disproportionate terminations of employees from its internal “bench” that did not hold visas, court filings previously reported by The Dallas Express showed.

Wages are also a point of contention in the debate over the H-1B visa program. An analysis from the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute concluded that H-1B workers “have wages in the top 10 percent of U.S. wage earners.”

However, relative to other workers performing the same job, there is some evidence that H-1B workers are cheaper than American workers. “On average, H-1B workers earn 16 percent less than comparable natives,” a recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research reportedly indicated.

The Dallas Express reached out to V3Tech Solutions Inc for comment regarding its reliance on the H-1B program, but did not receive a response by publication time.