Eliminate per-country caps on green cards. The U.S. issues 140,000 employment-based green cards a year, including those issued to spouses.

The country caps have created multi-year backlogs, for Indian workers especially, who want to transition from an H-1B visa to permanent residency.

Eliminating per country caps would create a global, first-come, first-served permanent residency list. Some countries, such as the Philippines, whose workers have shorter wait times, have opposed this. The tech industry has been lobbying hard such legislation because of the preponderance of Indian workers stuck in visa limbo.

was overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House late last year.

But Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on it in the Senate. Grassley won't give the tech industry something it wants unless he gets something in return, which could include .