New tech jobs are coming to North Texas even without Amazon's help.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that the state had approved a $3 million grant to land Infosys' new 500-job innovation and technology hub planned for Richardson's Telecom Corridor.

The announcement was made hours after Amazon officially passed on Dallas for a massive headquarters expansion expected to create 25,000 new jobs each in New York City and northern Virginia and 5,000 new jobs in Nashville.

Although its impact is smaller, Infosys, a technology services and consulting giant with offices in Plano, is continuing a significant U.S. hiring binge. The company, based in Bangalore, India, has added 6,200 U.S. workers since spring 2017 and expects to reach 10,000 by next year.

"Companies such as Infosys are choosing to invest in the Lone Star State because of our business-friendly practices and rich and diverse talent pool," Abbott said in a statement.

Infosys has already opened similar hubs in Indianapolis and Raleigh, N.C., and others are planned for Phoenix and Hartford, Conn. The company, which employees 200,000 people in 45 countries, previously announced plans for a design hub in Providence, R.I.

New jobs in Richardson, focused on telecommunications, retail and banking, are expected to be in place by 2020. Infosys also considers the hubs and other operations a chance for training and "upskilling" workers.

"We are excited to announce the expansion of our presence in Texas, which is another important step in our continued investment in driving digital transformation for American businesses," Pravin Rao, Infosys' chief operating officer, said in a statement Tuesday. "Digital is rapidly changing every industry, and our hubs will allow us to co-locate, co-innovate and co-create alongside our clients."

The company's U.S. expansion has coincided with President Donald Trump's criticism of the H1-B and other visas that corporations use to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the country. Texas has been second, behind only California, in the number of H1-B positions requested.

Infosys has made extensive use of visas to staff its U.S. operations. One federal lawsuit estimated that 93 to 94 percent of Infosys' U.S. workforce is from South Asia, mainly India.

In 2013, Infosys agreed to a record $34 million settlement over a federal investigation that accused the company of systematic visa fraud. That involved a different type of visa, the B-1, used for business visitors.

The company is also facing multiple lawsuits alleging that it discriminated against workers who are not from South Asia. In one case, Eric Green, a former Infosys supervisor in Plano, filed a federal lawsuit alleging that non-South Asian workers were denied raises and promotions.

Infosys has denied those claims, as well as similar ones in a Wisconsin lawsuit.

1 / 4Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott and Gov. Greg Abbott watered a Spanish mahogany tree they planted in March during a visit to the Bengaluru, India, headquarters of Infosys.(Robert T. Garrett / Staff) 2 / 4Gov. Greg Abbott and first lady Cecilia Abbott visited the Taj Mahal, one of the world s most admired architectural masterpieces and most visited destinations, in Agra, India, on Thursday, March 29, 2018.(Office of the Governor) 3 / 4Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and first lady Cecilia Abbott were each given a colored dot, or bindi, on the forehead and draped with a garland of marigolds after arriving at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, on March 23, 2018.(Robert T. Garrett / Staff writer) 4 / 4Texas Gov. Greg Abbott examines, before actually hauling himself into and driving, an autonomous vehicle at Wipro in Bengaluru, India, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.(Robert T. Garrett / Staff)

The Infosys deal is the latest Texas business expansion with ties to Abbott's nine-day business-recruitment trip to India in the spring. That visit was an effort to build stronger bonds with the world's fastest-growing economy and included a tour of Infosys' headquarters in Bangalore.

During that visit, the governor announced a $3.4 million grant to India-based JSW Group to facilitate a $500 million upgrade to its Houston-area steel plant. As with the Infosys grant, Abbott tapped into the Texas Enterprise Fund to encourage that expansion.

For the Amazon proposal, the Texas Enterprise Fund was offering $10,000 per job, or up to $500 million. That offer was based on the original HQ2 project, which was expected to included 50,000 new jobs.