Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been invited to make a state visit to Washington.

Two years ago, the Latin American leader, who governs under the Workers' Party platform, declined a similar invitation in protest of an American spy program that affected her country.

On Tuesday night, Rousseff’s office announced that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had extended a new invitation to her during a March 13 telephone conversation.

According to Rousseff’s office, Biden offered the choice of either a full state visit in 2016 or a "high-level working visit" to take place this year.

After she meets with President Obama during the upcoming April 10-11 Summit of the Americas in Panama, Rousseff will make her choice as to when she will go to Washington.

As reported by the The Associated Press, White House National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell has said in an email that Rousseff’s visit has indeed been rescheduled.

Ventrell has offered no information on the potential dates for the visit.

As quoted in the AP article, Ventrell said: "Brazil is a major player on the world stage and high-level visits are a demonstration that we want to invest in a strong bilateral relationship."

Once Rousseff actually comes to Washington, this will be the first state visit by a Brazilian president since Fernando Henrique Cardoso was there in 1995.

Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, had postponed her originally scheduled state visit to the U.S. in 2013 in order to protest an American spy program that had targeted Brazil's government as well as its private citizens.

It had been revealed through a series of reports on Brazil's Globo TV that Rousseff’s communications with her aides had been intercepted, and that the National Security Agency had hacked into the computer network of the state-run oil company Petrobras and gathered billions of emails and telephone calls that had gone through Brazil.

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