The US has not received any request from India on the transfer of 39-year-old Devyani Khobragade to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said.
This is expected to provide Khobragade with the necessary diplomatic immunity even as the court cases would continue in New York.
A 1999-batch IFS officer, Khobragade was arrested on December 12 on visa fraud charges as she was dropping her daughter to school and released on a USD 250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.
Psaki said India-US relationship is "too important to be derailed by this isolated incident."
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Citing the growing trade and economic ties between the two countries and deepening of strategic partnership, she said that officials from two countries are working to move forward.
"We certainly, fully agree that it's important to preserve and protect our partnership. It's not just about diplomatic ties. We have over USD 90 billion in bilateral trades that we - supporting thousands of jobs in both of our countries," she said, referring to a statement made by Khurshid in New Delhi.
"I think it's accurate to say that our law enforcement authorities and the government of industry have some different interpretations of the issues and allegations at play," she conceded.
"This now a legal case. And, of course, the State Department doesn't have jurisdiction over that. And we have been clear about our standing -- our position of certainly standing with our judicial colleagues," she said.
"We're in close contact. And we want to move beyond this, and I think we all recognise the importance of our long-term relationship," Psaki said.