'5 businesses registered in one house': Viral video claims massive H-1B fraud, salaries over $100,000 per year

A viral video circulating on X alleged a massive abuse of the H-1B visa programme, after a Texas home was shown as the registered address for multiple companies linked to foreign workers earning six-figure salaries.

The narrator in the clip claimed there were multiple people in one single household generating huge incomes: “See how cute this house is in Frisco, Texas? There’s actually five different businesses registered to this one house. There’s already 50 people who have been approved through the H-1B Visa Program to work for this company. Salaries of over $100K per year! Where is the money coming from? Who is running these companies? How many more houses are out there doing the same things?”




The post was shared by the account @AmericaPapaBear with text reading “FRAUD DETECTED!!” and went viral. It was reposted by several MAGA users using the same footage and wording. The video once again reached conservatives who asked to suspend the H-1B programme entirely.

The clip follows another claim targeting Dallas-based immigration lawyer Chand Parvathaneni, alleging he approved hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas since 2020. That claim is misleading. Immigration attorneys do not approve visas. Decisions are made by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, while lawyers only prepare and submit applications for employers.

Public records show multiple IT companies listing the same residential addresses in suburbs such as Frisco, Irving and Plano. It claims dozens of H-1B workers were tied to single houses and suggests a “99% suspicion rate”. However, no government agency has confirmed these figures or called the filings fraudulent.

Shared or residential addresses can raise compliance concerns, but are not illegal on their own. Small firms, remote businesses or early-stage companies are permitted to operate from homes under US law. Allegations of shell companies or fake jobs require formal investigation and proof.

The H-1B system is already under a lot of scrutiny under US President Donald Trump’s second term, with USCIS expanding site visits, audits, and reforms to screening.