A bill by Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, which is home to some of the companies that would benefit, would increase the number of high-tech visas to 115,000 a year, up from 65,000. But that cap could go as high as 195,000 in any one year if demand for the workers was strong.
The bill also would loosen restrictions on permanent resident status in the United States for some high-tech workers and their dependents.
Hatch has re-introduced a measure he first offered in 2013 and was incorporated into an immigration bill passed by the Senate the same year. That overhaul of US immigration law died when Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to consider it in 2014.
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are among companies that have been clamoring for better access to high-skilled foreign workers.
While the fate of the bill in the Republican-controlled Senate was unclear, Hatch said such a bipartisan measure could be used for "more progress on immigration reform."
But relations between the White House and congressional Republicans on immigration are sour following President Barack Obama's decision in November to use his executive powers to ease the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented residents.
Sponsoring the high-tech bill along with Hatch are fellow Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona, and Democrats Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Christopher Coons of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
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