Tiny Firm with Eight Workers Wants 1,646 H-1Bs — How Does DoL React?
By David North on January 8, 2022
There is a tiny labor brokerage firm, apparently headquartered in Northern Virginia and/or in the Chicago suburbs. Dun and Bradstreet estimates that it has eight workers; the Myvisajobs website says it got certifications for 35 H-1B workers in 2020. (These two statements, as will be explained later, are not necessarily in conflict.)
It operates out of what appears to be an apartment in Schaumburg, Ill., and a small office or apartment in Sterling, Va.
Dun and Bradstreet estimates the revenues of Tekorg Inc. at $281,063 a year.
If you google the firm, you will find that its CEO is Ajay Kumar Boyapati; if you google him, you find that he is a young student in India, or was when he last looked at this part of the internet. We do not know, but he could be an H-1B himself.
We have examined several databases in this regard, and find that 942 of the 1,646 applications came from the apartment in the Chicago suburbs and every one of the 942 applications in that group is for a single job title: “Senior SQL Data Manager” (SQL is database management system software) and every worker is to be paid exactly the same amount — $79,768 a year — not a very impressive wage in the high-tech field. In another set of files, covering all would-be H-1B hires, the average wage for FY 2021 is shown as $80,210.
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