2026年6月13日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:04 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
作者：沙内尔·考尔
达拉斯报道——基肖尔·坎达瓦利（Kishore Khandavalli）凭借H-1B技术类外籍工人签证开启了自己在美国的职业生涯。
“我是最早一批拿到签证的人之一，”坎达瓦利对CBS新闻说道。
如今他在达拉斯经营一家软件咨询公司，旗下380名员工中有近一半持有H-1B签证。
“当前市场上可用人才仅占3%，与市场需求的技能存在缺口，”坎达瓦利解释了他为何不将所有空缺职位都留给美国人。
据坎达瓦利所言，他所在行业的可用美国人才实质上严重不足。
“尤其是在新兴技术领域，”坎达瓦利说道。
因此，当特朗普总统在2025年9月宣布其政府将H-1B签证费用从约215美元大幅上调至10万美元时，他感到忧心忡忡。
6月8日，一名联邦法官驳回了白宫这项10万美元的签证费用政策，该裁决是对20个州提起的诉讼的回应。
在长达42页的判决书中，美国地区法官利奥·索罗金（Leo Sorokin）写道：“这笔10万美元付款的实质和用途表明，它本质上是一种税，无论该款项被冠以何种名义。”
他补充道：“没有任何法定权力授权（特朗普政府）对H-1B签证申请征收10万美元的税。”
自特朗普实施新的签证费用政策以来，坎达瓦利没有招聘过任何新的外籍员工。
“按照这项新规定，我每年将损失约100万美元，”坎达瓦利说道。
他的企业很大一部分业务依赖来自印度的员工。皮尤研究中心2023年的数据显示，印度籍持有者占H-1B签证总持有者的73%。
特朗普签署这项行政令数月后，CBS新闻前往印度采访，在获悉皮拉尼的比拉拉科技与科学学院多名学生计划先持学生签证赴美，再尝试申请H-1B签证后，记者探访了该学院。
一名博士生拉维·布尚（Ravi Bushan）告诉CBS新闻，他毕生都梦想着在美国工作。
“这对我而言将是职业转型的契机，”布尚说道。
不过，他的计划已经发生了变化。
“随着签证手续的调整，以及美国当前对移民态度的转变，我现在正在考虑拓展我的职业选择，看看其他国家，”布尚说道。
回到德克萨斯州，坎达瓦利担心局势会进一步生变——特朗普政府正对本周撤销10万美元签证费用的裁决提起上诉。
他表示，如果签证申请再增设其他障碍，他可能“不得不将业务转移到海外”。
这种可能性或将威胁到数十年来熟练外籍工人和美国企业都依赖的人才输送渠道。
“如果H-1B签证项目对所有企业都不再负担得起，我担心人才会流失海外，”坎达瓦利说道。“我担忧未来三到五年内我们将如何开展创新。”
With uncertainty surrounding the H-1B visa fee, some U.S. businesses unsure how to move forward
June 13, 2026 / 8:04 PM EDT / CBS News
By Shanelle Kaul
Dallas — Kishore Khandavalli began his career in the U.S. on an H-1B skilled foreign worker visa.
“I was one of the first ones,” Khandavalli told CBS News.
He now runs a software consulting company in Dallas, where nearly half of his 380 employees have H-1B visas.
“There’s a skills gap between the people that are available in the market, the 3%, and the skills that the market is needing,” explained Khandavalli on why he doesn’t give all the positions he has to Americans.
According to Khandavalli, there essentially isn’t enough available U.S. talent in his sector.
“Especially with the upcoming technologies,” Khandavalli said.
So, he was concerned when President Trump in September 2025 announced his administration was increasing the H1-B visa fee from about $215, all the way up to $100,000.
On June 8, a federal judge invalidated the White House’s $100,000 fee policy in response to a lawsuit brought by 20 states.
In his 42-page decision, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin wrote: “The substance and application of the $100,000 payment reveal that it is a tax, regardless of what the payment is called.”
He added that “there are no statutory powers authorizing [the Trump administration] to implement a $100,000 tax on H-1B petitions.”
Khandavalli hasn’t hired any new foreign workers since Mr. Trump implemented the new fee.
“With this new rule, I would have lost about $1 million a year,” Khandavalli said.
Much of his business relies on workers from India, which is home to 73% of H-1B visa holders, according to 2023 numbers from the Pew Research Center.
CBS News traveled there months after the president signed the order and visited the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India, after learning that several students there planned to move to the U.S. on student visas, and then try and get an H-1B.
One doctoral student, Ravi Bushan, told CBS News he has dreamed of working in the U.S. his entire life.
“It would be a career transformation for me,” Bushan said.
However, his approach has shifted.
“With the changes in the visa formalities, and the shifts in the way immigration is now seen in the U.S., now I’m looking at diversifying my options, looking at other places,” Bushan said.
Back in Texas, Khandavalli is worried more changes could come as the Trump administration is appealing this week’s decision to remove the $100,000 fee.
He says if there is another barrier to the visa, he could potentially “have to send the work overseas.”
Such a possibility could threaten a pipeline that both skilled foreign workers and American businesses have relied on for decades.
“Without the H-1B program being affordable to all the businesses, I’m concerned that the talent might leave the country,” Khandavalli said. “I’m concerned about how we’re going to innovate in the coming three, four, five years.”