A former employee of Great America Technologies Inc., a Plano, Texas-based company, claims that the firm’s owner, Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam, shut down operations after being rattled by an investigation into alleged H-1B visa fraud.
State records show Great America Technologies Inc. was formed in April 2017 and holds active business rights in Texas. The company received two Paycheck Protection Program loans during the pandemic that were later forgiven. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ H-1B Employer Datahub indicates the firm has approved 33 H-1B beneficiaries, including three in 2026.
According to the former employee—who came to the United States on an H-1B visa—the company required him to pay USCIS fees and attorney’s fees, which it collected by withholding his salary. The employee also alleged that the company failed to pay him on time or at all. “These people are taking the advantage and they are sucking the blood from their employees,” he stated.
Sakam, who was identified as the company’s shareholder and director in 2024, reportedly revoked the former employee’s H-1B visa and threatened to report him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The employee said Sakam became so anxious about the investigation that he invited several employees to his home and ordered them to leave within days, declaring, “I am going to shut down my company.”
The employee further alleged that Sakam had failed to pay at least one H-1B worker’s salary. It is illegal for an employer to take payment from employees to sponsor visas or offset USCIS filing fees by withholding salaries.
