I asked Claude.
Claude, are any of the attorney general of Texas H-1B applications happening after the Governor of Texas froze H-1B firing and this is what he had to say.
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No โ none of these were filed after Governor Abbott's January 27, 2026 order.
This file contains 3 unique H-1B applications (each appears twice, once per quarter they were reported), all for staffing/IT contractors placing developers with the Office of the Attorney General's Child Support Division in Austin:
tekAssembly Corporation โ Software Developer, filed Nov 3, 2025
3Core Systems, Inc. โ Software Developer, filed Nov 11, 2025
MaxPro Inc โ Software Engineer, filed Dec 3, 2025
All three were filed in NovemberโDecember 2025, roughly 6-12 weeks before the freeze order, and all are listed as Certified.
A couple of things worth noting for context:
These aren't direct OAG hires โ they're third-party staffing firms (3Core, MaxPro, tekAssembly) placing H-1B contractors at OAG facilities, all at the same $115,000 salary and the same Level II wage tier, and all at the same Austin address (5500 E Oltorf St / 12800 Center Lake Dr) which is the OAG's IT/data center hub. This is a common pattern โ agencies don't sponsor the visa directly, a staffing vendor does and contracts the worker out.
Given the OAG report we did earlier showed the agency has 185 IT positions and only 31 Asian employees in IT, these three contractor placements would be additional IT capacity sitting outside the direct-employee headcount entirely โ worth keeping in mind if you want to map the full picture of who's doing IT work at OAG. If you come across more contractor-based filings like these across other agencies, that's a worthwhile angle: state agencies contractor staffing firms both feeding into the same IT workforce.