Immigration attorney Chand Parvathaneni, who was recently in the news because of a viral claim that he filed 700,000 H-1B applications in 2025, which he refuted, spoke about the recent H-1B abuse allegations in Texas and said that a government investigation is always welcome instead of social media accusations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered an investigation into three H-1B firms after journalist Sara Gonzales, in her investigation report, claimed that the so-called H-1B firms, which exist in USCIS records, have no operations on the ground.
Gonzales highlighted two Indian-origin companies and alleged that their offices are either empty or residential addresses with no employees working. While many claimed that this is how H-1B staffing companies or IT bodyshops, which supply H-1B workers to other companies, work with no function of their own, Texas AG has now sought details from these companies -- about their employees, about their products or services.
