Shaw has earned his place in Gareth Southgate’s squad for this month’s FIFA World Cup qualifying games against San Marino, Albania and Poland after a number of scintillating displays at club level.
The 25-year-old last played for his country in 2018, having been hampered by a number of fitness issues.
Shaw made his debut for the Three Lions in 2014 and has eight caps to his name.
"I'm extremely happy, it's a massive honour to get selected for your country," Shaw told BT Sport.
"I've been out of the fold for a while but I've always had ambitions to get back into the squad.
"Now I’ve done that and I’m really looking forward to being there with the lads."
Shaw made his 35th appearance of the season in Thursday night’s 1-0 win over AC Milan in the Europa League round of 16 second leg which saw the Red Devils advance to the quarterfinal stage of the competition.
Despite Paul Pogba’s second half strike seeing off Stefano Pioli’s men, Shaw has asked his teammates to improve as the season enters its business stage.
"Obviously, we're very happy we’re through. I’ll be honest, and the lads and staff would agree, we weren’t good at all especially the first half we were awful," he said.
"The first 10-15 minutes, we started well, kept control of the ball but it was like a switch - we turned off, kept giving away balls, bringing pressure on ourselves and we were lucky.
"Second half it always helps to have a world-class player like Paul (Pogba) to make a difference and he did that. But we know we need to be better than tonight.
"It’s a very good win and the positive is that we are through, we have players coming back and the squad looks better."
