India, U.S. Launch New 'Diplomacy Partnership' To Align Stands

The fact sheet noted that to-way trade has increased nearly three-fold from $36 billion in 2005 to $104 billion in 2014.

Similarly, U.S. investments in India have increased from a total FDI stock of $7.7 billion in 2004 to $28 billion.

Travel for tourism, business, and education has seen unprecedented growth: a 152 percent increase in overall visa applications for Indians wishing to travel to the U.S, reaching a total of over one million applications in FY 2015.

Visa applications for Indian students have increased by 202 percent to 92,156 in FY 2015. U.S. visitors to India have nearly doubled from 611,165 visitors in 2005 to 1,123,444 in 2015.

Indian students account for the second-largest group of foreign students in the U.S, with approximately 102,673 students studying in the U.S in 2013-14.

At the same time, more than a million Americans travelled to India in 2013, and more than 4,000 Indians applied for student visas at U.S diplomatic facilities in India on a single day in May 2015.

The Indian diaspora, the fact sheet noted, has made enormous contributions to every facet of American society.

It has contributed "its talents and ingenuity at the tech start-ups of Silicon Valley, the lecture halls and labs of premier educational institutions, the board rooms of Fortune 500 companies, and the corridors of Washington and across the nation."

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