India, March 12 -- United States (US) Vice President JD Vance and Indian-origin Second Lady Usha Vance will visit India this month, American news portal POLITICO reported citing three sources familiar with the matter.

It will be JD Vance's second foreign trip as vice president and Usha Vance's first visit to India as second lady. Usha Vance's mother, a molecular biologist, and mechanical engineer father moved to the US from Andhra Pradesh.

In February, JD Vance visited France and Germany, where he criticised European governments over illegal migration, religious freedoms, and overturning elections in a speech at the Munich Security Conference.

The POLITICO report on JD Vance's visit to India comes against the backdrop of trade negotiat...