An Omaha-based IT firm and its successor spent years flooding Nebraska with H-1B software workers. The data is public. The impact on local wages, opportunity, and the community is real.
ProKarma, Inc. filed roughly 4,040 H-1B Labor Condition Applications from FY2015 through FY2026. Nebraska was its largest state footprint - about 1,260 filings, concentrated in Douglas County. The most common job titles were Software Developers and related IT roles. Median reported wage: around $105,000. The company was classified as an H-1B-dependent employer, meaning a substantial share of its workforce consisted of H-1B visa holders.
After ProKarma was acquired, the successor entity - Concentrix CVG Customer Management Group Inc. - continued the same pattern. It has filed 884 LCAs since acquiring ProKarma, with Nebraska again its largest state concentration (244 filings, led by Douglas County). Software Developers remained the top job title. Filings under this name ramped up hard in FY2023–FY2025.
The old ProKarma websites are dead. Public listings show almost no current web presence. What remains is the paper trail of thousands of H-1B software roles directed into the Omaha area under successive corporate names.
ProKarma was co-founded and long led by Vivek Kumar. The business model combined significant India-based delivery capacity with heavy U.S. sponsorship of tech workers. This is the classic structure of firms that use the H-1B program at scale to staff software and IT roles in American markets.
What this did to Nebraska:
In a mid-sized city like Omaha, sustained high-volume H-1B sponsorship for software jobs changes the local labor market. Entry-level and mid-level openings that should have been available to University of Nebraska graduates, community-college trained developers, and young people who grew up here instead went to employer-tied foreign workers. H-1B status limits mobility. That reduced competition can hold down wages relative to what an open local market would produce.
This is not abstract. Ten years ago the tech scene and the broader community fabric in Omaha looked different. Neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and social patterns have shifted. High concentrations of temporary foreign workers brought in under employer control accelerate those changes. When the same corporate lineage keeps filing hundreds of software H-1B petitions year after year into Douglas County, it is not neutral. It prioritizes a lower-cost, less-mobile labor supply over the kids who stayed in Nebraska and tried to build careers here.
Whether every filing was technically legal under the rules is a separate question from whether this model is good for Nebraska. A system that lets companies repeatedly import large numbers of tech workers into a market this size, while classifying themselves as H-1B dependent, undercuts local opportunity by design. That is the point.
The LCA data is public. The Nebraska concentration is public. The corporate succession from ProKarma to the Concentrix entity is public.
@TeamPillen's office, the Department of Labor, and Nebraska’s congressional delegation should examine the full record of these filings, the actual employment outcomes in Douglas County, and the cumulative effect on local tech wages and hiring. Nebraskans deserve to know how many of these positions went to U.S. workers versus H-1B holders, and whether the scale of sponsorship in our state served local workers or simply substituted for them.
The community many of us grew up in does not look the same. This is one of the reasons why.
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