These posts consist of embassies, high commissions, consulates and consulates general, permanent missions, and other representations in countries where there is no diplomatic relationship.
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Mexican consulates open defense centers to ensure nationals' rights are upheld under Trump Mexican consulates open defense centers to ensure nationals' rights are upheld under Trump Mexican consulates in the U.S. are doing a lot more than renewing passports and issuing visas these days.
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In addition to the embassy in Beijing and the consulates in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, the United States operates consulates in Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenyang and Wuhan.
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But after September 2, both countries will have three consulates.
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"We need consulates that can actually help us," she stressed.
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And US consulates are already something of a black box.
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They have to vote in person at embassies or consulates.
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Russia also has consulates in New York, Houston and Seattle.
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Many of the consulates' most pressing concerns now are defensive.
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The information given at the consulates in Istanbul is insufficient.
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Peru's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that starting June 15, Venezuelan migrants will be required to obtain a humanitarian visa from Peruvian consulates in Venezuela - and in special cases from consulates in Colombia or Ecuador.
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Police did not identify any of the embassies or consulates involved.
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And yes, some of their contact with consulates is indeed political.
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Additionally, consulates or embassies can't issue passports on weekends or holidays.
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Most were filed by religious attaches in Turkish embassies or consulates.
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In the United States, consulates issue a certified document establishing dual citizenship.
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But the biggest challenge consulates face is educating the community they serve.
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In the previous days, the Dutch and German consulates had been closed
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"[We need to] make changes to the way consulates operate," she said.
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In some high-risk consulates abroad, ICE assists in national security screenings.
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Security was immediately ramped up at consulates all over Karachi, Sindh Gov.
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In California, it was people with identification cards issued by Mexican consulates.
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Members of Australia's most prominent parties began contacting foreign offices and consulates.
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The men didn't target the Israeli Embassy or one of its consulates.
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Since then, the two countries have had an uneven number of consulates.
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There are three other Russian consulates separate from the embassy in Washington.
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They want to present the documents to local consulates Tuesday in Europe.
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The protests have been held at Swiss embassies and consulates, not just embassies.
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Mexican consulates are also assisting people who prove they cannot afford the fee.
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To put it simply, diplomatic reach is about more than embassies and consulates.
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Mexico announced that it has instructed its consulates to step up assistance for immigrants.
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Khan al-Jumruk, which once housed the English, French and Dutch consulates, has gone.
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Several foreign governments have consulates in the city, including the United States and Russia.
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Moscow's spy services still use the cover of embassies and consulates, as Washington does.
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Local Mexican consulates paid the $495 fees for renewing immigrants who were Mexican nationals.
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Some C.S.S.A.s receive funding from consulates for things like new student orientations or galas.
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In fact, India has only four consulates, the same number Pakistan has, in Afghanistan.
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These are demanding times for the 50 Mexican consulates scattered throughout the United States.
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"With this action both countries will remain with three consulates each," Nauert said Thursday.
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On Thursday, Maduro said Venezuela will close its embassy and consulates in the United States.
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Consulates could get Mexicans lawyers in the past — but it might take a little time.
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Israel's consulates in Turkey have been handling Jordanian applications for Israeli visas since the incident.
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Earlier in the summer protesters swarmed the city's US and British consulates calling for help.
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We are best positioned to do so with fully staffed embassies, consulates, and domestic offices.
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In some foreign countries, hundreds line up daily outside American embassies and consulates to apply.
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During the Soviet era, the United States and the Soviet Union each had four consulates.
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U.S. embassies and consulates from Asia to Africa and Europe issued security alerts for Americans.
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Arreaza says Canada won&apost allow voting to take place inside the Venezuelan Embassy and consulates.
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But the Moroccan state recognises only Islamic procedures, either in Morocco or one of its consulates.
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Bank accounts for Venezuelan embassies and consulates in the United States had been frozen, he said.
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Officials at the U.S. and British consulates in Melbourne separately confirmed suspicious packages had been received.
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America now has a travel ban that's being enforced primarily off American shores, at US consulates.
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The current narrative posits a close relationship, shrouded in secrecy, between the C.S.S.A. and Chinese consulates.
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ET, according to a State Department cable sent to U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.
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It asked the justices to protect the sanctity of Saudi embassies, consulates and other foreign missions.
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According to Sudan and Saudi Arabia, though, that ruling undermined the "inviolability" of embassies and consulates.
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Consulates of the workers' home countries are charged with helping the laborers if they need assistance.
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As reports of raids circulate, Mexican consulates in the U.S. have been flooded with terrified immigrants.
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Health officials have weighed directing immigrants to seek out guidance from consulates, given the many uncertainties.
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But the centers' launch does mean that consulates can now get imperiled nationals legal representation much quicker.
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Although consulates do not have the same level of diplomatic immunity as embassies, this is still significant.
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But the State Department's security arm is planning for potentially violent protests at US embassies and consulates.
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It took several more days of calling consulates, embassies and German functionaries to recover the man's passport.
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The other was the United States Embassy in Beijing and consulates in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenyang.
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Protesters are maintaining the pressure with small daily operations: momentarily disrupting public services, delivering petitions to consulates.
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Recognising this, some countries are planning to upgrade their San Francisco consulates into de facto tech embassies.
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S. foreign policy goals directly with foreign audiences in support of U.S. embassies, consulates and missions abroad.
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For starters, Trump's proclamation applies only to lawful immigrants, those applying for visas at U.S. consulates abroad.
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But the agency said there were increasing reports of the practice from U.S. embassies and consulates abroad.
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Besides being a financial hub for regional and global companies, it hosts dozens of embassies and consulates.
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"Attack the embassies and consulates of Turkey and all coalition countries where you are," the message said.
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The United States also operates consulates in the mainland Chinese cities of Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenyang and Wuhan.
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Mexican consulates and embassies will also start to produce birth certificates for Mexican immigrants who don't have one.
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And neither the real Chinese Consulates, nor the Chinese Embassy, will ever call you to ask for money.
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She added that along with local governments, the ministry holds outbreak-related briefings for foreign embassies and consulates.
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The plans called for shifting those duties to U.S.-based agency offices and American consulates and embassies abroad.
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U.S. embassies and consulates are planning and participating in events in 75 countries to help strengthen their economies.
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And the turmoil continued Friday with U.S. diplomats defying Maduro's order to leave the consulates by the weekend.
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The Red Cross made calls to various consulates with the hope to identify the tourist, with no result.
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Australian suspicious packages Suspicious packages were delivered to a dozen consulates and seven embassies in Melbourne and Canberra.
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The British, American, Croatian, New Zealand and Swiss consulates in Melbourne all got suspicious items in the mail.
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The U.S. consulates are located in St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg in the Urals and Vladivostok in Russia's far east.
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"As resources allow, embassies and consulates will continue to provide urgent and emergency visa services," the department said.
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American consulates in each country can provide lists of attorneys who speak English and are available to help.
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Their consulates, however, are often slow to provide them with new travel documents, which delays or prevents deportation.
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In addition to the embassy in Moscow, the United States has consulates in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg.
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The index is an analysis of the number of embassies and consulates maintained by countries around the world.
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Let's also eliminate US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts.
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Consulates adjust to the high demand In Philadelphia, the consulate is opening some Saturdays to keep up with requests.
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The defense centers aren't the only new service consulates have started offering since the Trump administration came into power.
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I check both the French and Italian consulates to see if I can score an appointment, but no dice.
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For consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekatinburg, and Vladivostok, the suspension is in place "until further notice," the official said.
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These consulates are presumably well-equipped to evaluate an applicant in the context of the local practices and customs.
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In 2013, the Swiss and Swedish consulates in Shanghai ran a campaign to help locals tell the two apart.
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Under a recent change by Mexico, its citizens can now obtain those cards from consulates in the United States.
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The blast hit an area favored by tourists on the central Istiklal Street, near shops, cafes and foreign consulates.
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Beyond the specific risks to US embassies, consulates and businesses, there are regional implications to Trump's campaign trail promise.
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Mexico maintains the largest consular network of any country in any other, with 50 consulates in the United States.
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These "patriotic" students and scholars team up with the Chinese consulates to sabotage protests critical of the Chinese government.
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The foreigners were present, and their soldiers guarded the consulates, but the city retained a more dominant Chinese feel.
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Similar warnings were issued by American consulates elsewhere throughout the Far East, Secretary of State Cordell Hull said in Washington.
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The State Department advised people to shelter in place and not try to go to the U.S. Embassy or Consulates.
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" Specifically, he said, "the 50 Mexican consulates in the United States will become authentic advocates for the rights of migrants.
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"We have in general informed our personnel in Beijing and in our consulates to take extra precautions," an official said.
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The physical factor still imposes limitations—only thirty-eight consulates have agreed to issue documents, and they are distributed unevenly.
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Officials also stopped accepting photo identity cards, known as matrículas, that Mexicans obtain from their consulates in the United States.
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In the foreign service, with strong congressional support, we embarked on a massive effort to harden our embassies and consulates.
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Some are hotels, others consulates; a number are divided into apartments, several are museums and a few remain private homes.
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Three Turkish nationals working for American consulates in Turkey are also under detention on a cocktail of specious terror charges.
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The ban mandates a worldwide review of vetting procedures and also prevents consulates from waiving visa interviews for repeat applicants.
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Visa operations at the U.S. consulates, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, will "remain suspended indefinitely," according to Reuters.
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Part of Bitnation's appeal is that it does partially operate in physical space, with 25 embassies and consulates around the world.
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So Global Affairs Canada, the government entity in charge of the nation's embassies and consulates, ordered diplomats to cut it out.
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Expect significant use of real passports with fake names, which were purchased through bribery of corrupt officials in various diplomatic consulates.
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Some parents are also drafting documents to give temporary custody to someone they trust, according to consulates CNN reached out to.
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The proclamation applies to all immigrants applying for visas at consulates abroad with the intention of living in the US permanently.
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Activists have submitted petitions to 19 foreign consulates urging leaders to raise their concerns at the summit, the news outlet says.
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Some countries do maintain consulates in Jerusalem, including the United States, which has one in the western part of the city.
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Parents from three Central American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — will be able to present documents certified by their consulates.
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It is also unclear if the person was inside one of the consulates or if a specific building had been targeted.
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It sent panicked shoppers scurrying into alleys off Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian avenue lined with international stores and foreign consulates.
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Mexico has 50 consulates in the United States, the largest diplomatic network deployed by any single country in any other worldwide.
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One is the newly formed Alliance of Queer Egyptian Organizations, which coordinated protests outside Egyptian embassies and consulates on Oct. 19.
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Some of them, indeed, embrace the party line of the Chinese government, joining student organizations closely aligned with their local consulates.
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"Any foreigner in China, including the personnel of foreign embassies and consulates, cannot violate international and Chinese law," Ms. Hua said.
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The police are appealing for witnesses to identify the bathers, and have asked consulates in the city to do the same.
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But the Mexican federal government has cut down activities in its 50 consulates across the United States to a bare minimum.
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For years Pakistani officials falsely asserted that India had set up 24 consulates in Afghanistan, some close to the Pakistani border.
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Analysts say US embassies and consulates are prime targets in the wake of these events, and personnel could be in jeopardy.
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The DSS deploys its special agents to almost 300 embassies and consulates globally, in addition to facilities in the United States.
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High numbers of deaths are usually recorded by Russian consulates only in tourist destinations such as Thailand or Turkey, he said.
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The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no greater responsibility than the protection of U.S. citizens overseas.
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The tickets had been distributed to the families of Disney staff, Shanghai government departments, Disney's business partners and foreign consulates in China.
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The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Mexico also confirm that 8 of the victims and an additional 7 were from the United States.
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Three other Turkish citizens who were working at the U.S. consulates in Turkey have been under investigation or jailed over similar charges.
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The agency also said it would start issuing the visas through Mexican Consulates in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras beginning in May.
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The neighborhood where the consulate attack happened, near the Arabian Sea, is mostly residential and upscale, including other consulates, schools and restaurants.
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On Friday, the State Department announced it was suspending routine visa services at all embassies and consulates worldwide due to the pandemic.
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Both the U.S. Embassy and Consulates General will continue to provide consular services across China, as resources allow, the State Department said.
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Forcing the shutdown of the San Francisco consulate leaves the United States and Russia with three consulates each in the other country.
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Under the Trump administration, the wait for visas has been longer because American consulates and embassies around the world have been understaffed.
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"All foreigners in China, including diplomats in foreign embassies and consulates, must not violate international law or Chinese laws," said Hua Chunying.
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The two countries were found to have an equal number of embassies, but Beijing has more consulates around the world than Washington.
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"Broadly speaking, consulates facilitate economic cooperation between countries, whereas embassies nurture political relationships," said lead researcher Bonnie Bley from the Lowy Institute.
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We have an excellent corps of ambassadors, State Department economic offices and commercial officers at our embassies and consulates around the world.
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It is also one of the country's most affluent areas, with upscale restaurants and shops, and a few foreign embassies and consulates.
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Some consulates even outright refuse to accept the supporting materials that applicants submit to try to prove their eligibility for a waiver.
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Zarif said initial arrangements had been made to ensure "diplomats from the two countries can inspect their embassies and consulates" in September.
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And so Larkin's "pastoral of ships up streets...tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives" will recede a little farther into the distance.
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On June 217rd and 250th around 7170m registered expat voters were called to the polls in 717 lycées and consulates across the world.
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As these promising medical students are preparing for their final exams, they have traveled to American consulates across Pakistan for their visa interview.
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Even for those Turks not forced to endure long waits in front of European consulates, the issue is a matter of national pride.
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Chile also now requires Venezuelans to apply for entry at consulates in Venezuela and to show a passport, which many do not have.
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Mexican consulates in the United States can issue all Mexican citizens a form of identification, often the only one available to undocumented immigrants.
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Officials may soon direct Cubans seeking to travel to the United States to apply for visas at embassies or consulates in other countries.
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Read more " _____ • Michael Rubin in Commentary: "If parity is important, it's time for Putin to choose which of the Russian consulates get closed.
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To be frank, the Russian consulates in Seattle and San Francisco probably focus on industrial espionage as much as normal consular duties, anyway.
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Once they reach the city of Puebla, just south of Mexico City, most stay to schedule appointments with consulates to apply for asylum.
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Australia: A 48-year-old man was charged with sending 38 suspicious, potentially hazardous packages to foreign consulates in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
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On Thursday, he said he was closing Venezuela's embassy in Washington as well as all of the country's consulates in the United States.
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Consulates and embassies do not need to reopen any visa applications refused under the prior, narrower definition of close family members, the cable said.
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They do not want to return until conditions improve and consulates are closed after President Nicolás Maduro severed diplomatic relations with Colombia in February.
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According to the Diplometrics project at the University of Denver more than 320 embassies or consulates were opened in Africa between 2010 and 2016.
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Mexico plans to roll out a plan later this year allowing Central Americans to obtain humanitarian visas from Mexican consulates in their home countries.
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The blog post was still live on the site for the State Department's embassy and consulates in the United Kingdom as of Monday evening.
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The committee made scant mention of procedures put in place since the Benghazi attacks, which fundamentally changed the way American embassies and consulates operate.
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Overseas bureaus and consulates will still need to conform to "strict budget constraints" for travel and contracts as the shutdown continues, Todd emphasized Thursday.
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While in 2019 the United States is home to 342 embassies and consulates from 61 countries, there are only 256 diplomatic missions in China.
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Consular officials from Latin American countries had access to the facility, and detainees had the ability to call their consulates and embassies for assistance.
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Most travelers are photographed and fingerprinted at American consulates abroad when they receive a visa and then again on arrival in the United States.
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Roads were sealed off near some major hotels and police units were deployed outside foreign consulates in Istanbul, including the German and Italian missions.
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The increase seen at the consulates comes as a wave of recent deportation cases have made national headlines and fear has spread among undocumented immigrants.
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In addition to the Beijing embassy and Guangzhou consulate, the United States operates consulates in the mainland Chinese cities of Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenyang and Wuhan.
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U.S. officials said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is supporting the work by U.S. embassies and consulates to fight violence and discrimination against LGBT people.
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It has invested $50 million to expand legal services at its consulates and embassies in the US in an effort to help Mexicans fearing deportation.
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Reuters reports it's "unclear whether any visas were issued," but the Brazilian passports were "legitimate documents when sent out as blanks for consulates to issue."
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"The US Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no greater responsibility than the protection of US citizens overseas," the spokesperson said.
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This would require a statutory change, along with reallocation of State Department funds to establish in-country processing capacities at Northern Triangle consulates and embassies.
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American embassies or consulates are typically able to execute such a contract, provided the couple has a signed and notarized statement attesting to their eligibility.
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He or she must oversee the entire foreign service, which runs US embassies and consulates around the globe, and help pick and oversee individual ambassadors.
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My former colleagues at embassies and consulates have virtually no discretion to deny applications based on an applicant's lack of education, skills or work experience.
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In all, 27 countries are ejecting more than 150 Russians, including people listed by their embassies and consulates as diplomats, and military and cultural attachés.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several suspicious packages were delivered to embassies and consulates in Canberra and Melbourne on Wednesday, the Australian Federal Police said in a statement.
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In a notice issued Friday, the embassy instructed personnel at the five consulates in the country to ensure that any pride "flags are placed internally."
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs issued a warning on Friday for citizens traveling to Indonesia to avoid protests at embassies and consulates in the country.
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No. United States embassies and consulates are not official polling places, though they may provide assistance in registering to vote or obtaining a backup ballot.
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More than two dozen countries ejected more than 150 Russians, including people listed by their embassies and consulates as diplomats, and military and cultural attachés.
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The authorization also extends to U.S. consulates general stationed in the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang, according to a State Department official.
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The consulate in San Francisco is the oldest and most established of Russia's consulates in the United States, the senior Trump administration official told reporters.
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Included in the tweet was an interactive poll asking users to select whether they would shutter the U.S. consulates in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg or St. Petersburg.
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In addition to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the three consulates offer services for American citizens who live in Russia or plan to visit it.
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Saturday's attack on Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian avenue lined with international stores and foreign consulates, was the fourth suicide bombing in Turkey this year.
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The museum consulted hundreds of people, including Muslims from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; consulates; scholars; and mosque leaders to ensure accuracy and authenticity.
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Russian consulates do not register the deaths of military personnel, according to an official at the consulate in Damascus who did not give his name.
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On Wednesday, thousands marched to major foreign consulates in the city, urging G20 leaders to back their demand to scrap the bill and "liberate" Hong Kong.
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There are few Venezuelan consulates abroad and travel home is difficult and dangerous, leaving many migrant parents with no way to register their newborns for documentation.
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Five Mexican consulates across the United States told CNN they've seen a rise in applications for dual citizenship in recent months, including for US-born children.
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What about the staffing gaps overseas every summer, when officers start new assignments at embassies and consulates weeks or even months after their predecessors have left?
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Trump, however, because the Foreign Affairs Manual then used by U.S. Consulates limited the insurance of H-1B visas for Slovenian citizens to only one year.
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The bomber killed five people, including himself, and wounded at least 36 more in an attack on Istiklal Street, home to upscale shops and foreign consulates.
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On Monday, a blog post on Trump's luxury resort that was on the official website of State's embassy and consulates in the United Kingdom gained attention.
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The network was bolstered with a 1 billion peso (about $50 million) allocation this year, as President Enrique Peña Nieto expanded the consulates' migrant protection powers.
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Washington has complained about the detention of two locally employed staff at U.S. consulates in Turkey, and a month ago suspended issuing visas in the country.
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Mexicans make up the largest share of green card holders, and Mexican consulates have received a flood of inquiries about the implications of holding dual citizenship.
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Washington has been angered by Turkey's detention of 20 American citizens, including Mr. Brunson, and three employees of American consulates in Turkey, calling it hostage diplomacy.
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France The French government announced that as of March 17, the European Union is closing its borders , according to the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in France.
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The Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations allowed for consulates to be searched by authorities of a host country with consent of the mission chief, he said.
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Britain is withdrawing some staff from its embassy and consulates in China due to the coronavirus outbreak, the UK government said in a statement on Saturday.
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Mr. Martinelli said he had to fire Mr. Varela from his foreign minister post because he was caught receiving bribes from consulates, according to court papers.
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State department cables Later in 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing large batches of US State Department cables, which documented correspondence from around 270 US embassies and consulates.
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Published by the Sydney-based Lowy Institute Wednesday, the Global Diplomacy Index is an analysis of the number of embassies and consulates maintained by countries worldwide.
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After China and the United States, France is the next most connected diplomatic power, according to the report, with 267 embassies and consulates around the world.
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House Democrats to test Republicans on Trump's wall demand, Australian police investigate suspicious packages sent to consulates and Saudi private jet industry stalls after corruption crackdown.
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The State Department told Vox that they act in "consultation" with local consulates to make sure an applicant meets the national-security standards for a waiver.
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The strange sonic occurrences have disrupted operations in the affected consulates and resulted in the US pulling its diplomatic staff from Cuba, icing relations between the countries.
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Turkey has detained a dozen or so Americans, and three Turkish employees at American consulates, as part of a broader crackdown in connection with the foiled coup.
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In an update to its travel advice, the Foreign Office also said some staff and dependants from the British Embassy and consulates were being withdrawn from China.
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In 2014, it ordered mobile phone pollution apps to drop data provided by the United States embassy and its consulates, concerned it might differ from its own.
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And this is particularly true for the Foreign Service, a cadre of about 13,000 professional diplomats within the department who are stationed in embassies and consulates abroad.
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The Environmental Protection Agency's Air Now website provides national data as well as data from air quality monitors at select US embassies and consulates around the world.
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He told me individuals born and living abroad more frequently contact US consulates asserting citizenship claims because they have realized they qualify for citizenship through a parent.
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Yes. The State Department ordered employees to return to work this week, saying it needs US embassies, consulates and domestic offices fully staffed to ensure national security.
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Some European lawmakers, as well as aid groups, have called for such a solution, saying EU embassies and consulates outside of the bloc should handle such requests.
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True, they do have civil servants in their ministries of foreign affairs, some of whom are sent to work in embassies and consulates from time to time.
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The State Department issued new guidelines Wednesday night to American embassies and consulates on applying a limited travel ban against foreign visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Britain is withdrawing some staff from its embassy and consulates in China due to the coronavirus, the UK government said in a statement on Saturday.
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They attributed the delay to the slow arrival of ballots from remote regions and consulates abroad, as well as to inconsistencies that needed to be sorted through.
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As official representatives of the Mexican government in the United States, the consulates can provide legal guidance and resources for people and families dealing with immigration issues.
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Most U.S. diplomatic staff, including around 300 U.S. citizens, work in the main embassy in Moscow, with others based in consulates in St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok.
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A Brazilian source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two passports in question were legitimate documents when sent out as blanks for consulates to issue.
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One says it wants to send its young people to be Silk Road "super connectors", while a second is pitching to become a new home for foreign consulates.
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" Mexico's government issued a statement on Saturday reminding foreign nationals that visas should be requested in consulates, not at the border, and said migration rules were "always observed.
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Tens of thousands of protestors flowed into the streets, throwing rocks and pressing up against the gates of the American embassy in Beijing and consulates in other cities.
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"Iranian and Saudi diplomats will travel and visit the embassy and consulates in one another's countries," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on the Iranian Student News Agency.
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The lawsuit centers around a blog posted last April about Mar-a-Lago on the State Department's official website for the embassy and consulates in the United Kingdom.
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Mexico's leadership on consular diplomacy and diaspora empowerment, particularly through its consulates in the United States, can provide unique assets to contribute to the strengthening of LGBT rights.
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Just a day later, hundreds of people swarmed US consulates across Canada, joining 600 US cities in voicing their opposition to the administration's deplorable "zero tolerance" immigration policies.
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Enforcement of the ban is set to begin Thursday at 8 PM ET, according to a State Department cable sent to US embassies and consulates around the world.
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Because so many of these decisions are ultimately subjective, consulates and the State Department come up with rules of thumb to keep them from being applied totally arbitrarily.
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Gustavo Marcano, senior aide to the Venezuelan opposition's envoy to Washington, told reporters that bank accounts for Venezuelan embassies and consulates in the United States had been frozen.
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In the event that the situation deteriorates further, the ability of the British Embassy and Consulates to provide assistance to British nationals from within China may be limited.
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At some colleges, like the University of Connecticut and the University of North Texas, the groups' websites mention that they are supported by or affiliated with Chinese consulates.
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He also headed the Mexican consulates in Toronto, San Antonio, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, and was mayor of his hometown of Oaxaca from 1993 to 85033.
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For example, Trump has presided over a brain drain of experienced staffers in the immigration courts and the State Department, which manages the refugee program and consulates abroad.
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Most of the 755 employees to be dropped are likely to be Russian nationals working for the embassy in Moscow, above, or U.S. consulates in other Russian cities.
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The British government also announced on Saturday that it would withdraw some staff members from its embassies and consulates in China, with only critical staff remaining for now.
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Claiborne has worked at the State Department since 1999, during which she served in a number of overseas post including embassies and consulates in Iraq, Sudan and China.
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The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., responded to the ouster by carrying out a Twitter poll asking followers to choose which of three U.S. consulates it should close.
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The risks and casualties endured by the career foreign service has increased in numbers and intensity in recent decades as embassies and consulates are targets of terrorist attack.
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He added that Venezuela's diplomatic missions in the United States, which include an embassy in Washington and consulates in Florida and Texas, would be shut down by Saturday.
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There's no indication that the channel was actually established, and the assumption has been that the communications would have required visits to Russian consulates — which would be bizarre.
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"Once there's an order from a judge the government works to repatriate the child and then DHS and HHS have to work with the consulates," Frankel told me.
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Mexico plans to use its extensive network of U.S. consulates to highlight the benefits of U.S.-Mexican relations to the U.S. economy and the American people, Guzman said.
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Once arrests take place, families will likely be moved to ICE family residential detention centers as the agency works with consulates to obtain travel documents, according to the official.
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Australian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 48-year-old man for sending as many as 38 suspicious packages to diplomatic embassies and consulates across the country.
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Now, thanks to an extended national network of human rights organizations and minority rights organizations, like the ACLU and Anti-Defamation League, consulates can bring in lawyers much faster.
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The Iranian embassy in Ankara announced that its consulates in the three Turkish cities of Istanbul, Trabzon and Erzurum will be closed on Tuesday after the Russian envoy's killing.
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"It's a blueprint that's out there for these kinds of abuses to be replicated in other consulates and countries and to be applied to other communities," Professor Kassem added.
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On March 31st thousands of them queued up at the embassy in Warsaw, and consulates in Gdansk and Krakow, to cast their votes: a paragon of trans-European democracy.
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The blast, which killed five people, including the bomber, and wounded 36 more, hit Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian boulevard lined with shops and cafes, theaters and foreign consulates.
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It said the packages were sent to consulates in Melbourne and embassies in Canberra but did not provide a total number of affected sites or identify any of them.
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"Between January and March 2017, our consulates in Canada received more requests for assistance and protection than were seen in the same period of the previous year," it said.
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"A high alert has been issued and more security personnel deployed at Iranian and Afghan consulates in Quetta and other important places," said Quetta police chief Abdul Razzar Cheema.
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He announced in a speech aired live on state broadcaster VTV that he was closing the Venezuelan embassy and all consulates in the US and recalling all diplomatic staff.
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Sada said Mexican consulates will expand their service hours to better provide information and assistance to their citizens amid concerns about how citizenship policies may change after Jan. 20.
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Turkey, which has ordered retaliation for the new American sanctions, has also detained 19 Americans besides Mr. Brunson as well as three Turks who work for the American consulates.
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Consulates around the region have suspended their services and the Department of State has instructed citizens stranded abroad to check embassy websites and their social media accounts for updates.
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Brazil's Foreign Ministry confirmed that certificates of nationality are issued by its consulates in the United States when detained deportees have exhausted their appeals process and have no passport.
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Washington (CNN)The United States will begin treating five major Chinese media companies as extensions of Beijing's government, requiring them to comply with rules governing foreign embassies and consulates.
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Mr. Putin's response to the sanctions was to seize two American diplomatic properties and order the United States to cut 755 positions from its embassy and consulates by Sept.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Britain is withdrawing some staff from its embassy and consulates in China due to the coronavirus, the UK government said in a statement on Saturday.
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The United States Embassy and the consulates in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, and Yekaterinburg issued 182,958 nonimmigrant visas in 2016, 136,665 of those in Moscow, according to an official report.
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The bulk of the 755 dismissed are likely to be Russian employees of the embassy in Moscow, as well from the American consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok.
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In a lengthy cable sent to embassies and consulates around the world, officials said that extended family connections would not be enough to evade the president's ban on entry.
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The embassy and consulates in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg were closed for several days in 2009 over what U.S. officials called a "specific" threat to its diplomatic missions.
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At the same time, Washington's ties with Ankara, a longtime partner in the region, hit rock bottom following Turkey's arrest of local employees of U.S. consulates in the country.
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Employees of the United States Embassy and consulates in Mexico have been victims of drug violence in the past few years, though they have sometimes been targeted by mistake.
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The goal is to help agents develop "hard skills" for the real-world situations they'll encounter at the embassies, consulates, or other foreign service posts to which they're assigned.
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In total, 38 suspicious packages were delivered to consulates and embassies this week in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, the capital, including those of New Zealand and the United States.
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These steps triggered further actions by consulates in response to their own local dynamics; consulates in Los Angeles, Nogales and Kansas have engaged in coalitions to combat domestic violence, hate crimes, bullying and trafficking acknowledging the LGBT community; Los Angeles and Sacramento have participated in Pride events, and Santa Ana has been working with the Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement to address the situation of Mexican transgender women in immigration detention centers.
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Oh, and for good measure, what if we eliminate funding for US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts, saving about $650 billion?
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But when democracy activists petition Western consulates in Hong Kong, as hundreds of them did on June 26th, it prompts the central government to weigh in, and fuels Chinese propaganda.
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"Embassies and consulates will be able to issue the visas within 24 hours of receiving a request," the daily Arab News reported on Saturday, citing a cabinet decision last week.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Visa consultations in U.S. consulates in Russia could be resumed in the near future, TASS news agency cited U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman as saying on Monday.
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Read more: Hong Kong's government scraps the incendiary extradition bill that has sparked months of protestsThe action followed on from similar rallies outside the British and US consulates this month.
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The Mexican government has opened legal assistance centers at its 50 consulates in the U.S. amid fears of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the Trump administration, Reuters reported Saturday.
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He said he would also seek to increase the ability for spouses of US diplomats serving in overseas posts to be hired to fill administrative jobs at embassies and consulates.
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The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations — which Turkey and Saudi Arabia both signed — lays out international law governing consulates and embassies and provides protections for diplomatic officials and facilities.
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The ban is mostly enforced abroad at US consulates and embassies that are denying visas to those affected and preventing them from getting on a plane in the first place.
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The SRDT is a unit of specialized officials deployed to work with Canada's embassies and consulates abroad in providing critical services to Canadians during emergencies, according to the Canadian government.
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Currently, a third of all foreign service jobs in U.S. embassies and consulates remain unfilled and the process of remedying the vacancies has become immobilized by impeachment proceedings, GQ reports.
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One of the most important tasks of the Department of State and US embassies and consulates abroad is to provide assistance to US citizens who are incarcerated or detained abroad.
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The Australian authorities did not say which countries' facilities received the packages, but footage broadcast on Wednesday showed emergency responders outside consulates of India, Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea.
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"Police and emergency services have responded to suspicious packages delivered to embassies and consulates in Canberra and Melbourne today," the Australian Federal Police said in a statement on its website.
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Embassies and consulates enjoy certain privileges under the 1961 Vienna Convention and Turkey would very likely want to hold voting on their premises to reach some 1.5 million expatriate Turkish voters.
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None of the Chinese students I know have had any significant contact with Chinese Students and Scholars Associations, often claimed to be the means through which consulates control the student body.
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The truck's driver and a companion were arrested pending further investigation and the immigrants were detained while consulates were contacted, pending their "assisted return" to their home countries, the statement said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police on Thursday charged a 49-year-old man for sending as many as 38 packages containing a hazardous material to diplomatic embassies and consulates across the country.
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After only seven months as ambassador, Los Angeles Consul General Carlos Manuel Sada Solana, an experienced diplomat who also ran the consulates in New York, San Antonio and Toronto, replaced Basáñez.
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That project, Missing in Arizona, is coordinating with a broader 2015 initiative developed by Border Patrol agents to connect undocumented families seeking a missing person with foreign consulates and other groups.
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"It's easy to get lost in the grief and outrage over Trump siding [with] Saudi regime that thinks nothing of butchering peaceful journalists in consulates," Attiah wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
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The data concerns individuals attempting to travel to the US by air, sea or land, and includes those who made efforts to obtain visas from embassies and consulates around the world.
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The same year, the Irish consulate in New York reported issuing a record 1003,2100 Irish passports, closely followed by the consulates in Sydney, San Francisco and Canberra, in terms of demand.
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The government has said it would require migrants to secure a visa from its consulates in Venezuela before going to the border - a policy similar to one implemented by neighboring Chile.
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Using data from almost 250 government monitors throughout the country, which closely matches monitors maintained by the United States Embassy in Beijing and consulates around the country, I found major improvements.
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"This is the first time so many march to so many consulates to express a single view," said one of the organizers of the march, who gave only his surname, Lau.
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In 2011, only five roughly equivalent American places existed in China — at American embassies or consulates, sites that are closely watched by Chinese security and forbidding for local residents to enter.
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Members of the China Students and Scholars Association, which has chapters at many American universities, maintain ties with the Chinese consulates and keep tabs on "unpatriotic" people and activities on campuses.
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As of 2013, the latest year that numbers are publicly available, 1,279 people worked at the United States Embassy in Moscow and at American consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok.
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The rule affects immigrants applying for green cards nationwide and at consulates abroad, as well as those applying for temporary visas overseas such as tourists, business travelers, students, and skilled workers.
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But senior officials said the decision to target General Suleimani grew out of a new stream of Iran threats to American embassies, consulates and military personnel in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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Consulates throughout the country said requests for legal assistance had also spiked in the last two months — some come from people who received deportation orders years ago that were never enforced.
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The message reminded Islamic State supporters of a call earlier this month by the group's new spokesman, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajer, who said they should also attack Turkish consulates and embassies.
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"One of the most important tasks of the Department of State and US embassies and consulates abroad is to provide assistance to US citizens who are detained abroad," the department spokesperson said.
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A State Department official said in an email that embassies and consulates have already been instructed to resume "regular processing" of visas for nationals from the six countries covered by Watson's order.
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Waves poured over a Miami seawall, flooding streets waist-deep in places around Brickell Avenue, which runs a couple of blocks from the waterfront through the financial district and past foreign consulates.
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On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and all five of the U.S. consulates in China held town hall meetings so that diplomats and embassy workers could ask questions or voice concerns.
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This latest move will certainly inconvenience both the US State Department and also any Russian wanting a US visa or otherwise hoping to use the services of America's embassy and consulates there.
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This physical task proved to be the main stumbling block, Ott Vatter, the deputy director of e-residency, explained, because consulates were reluctant to expand their workload to include a new document.
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Immigrant advocates fear the real number could be much higher, especially if the rule is extended to the millions of people who apply for U.S. visas at American consulates around the world.
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Everyone is worried about a new round of violence gripping the region, and the State Department's security arm has been told to plan for potentially violent protests at US embassies and consulates.
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Starting this week, Americans wishing to visit Brazil will be able to apply online for a visa for a $40 fee, down from the $160 fee applicants were previously charged at consulates.
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But like the U.S.I.A. before it, the I.I.P.'s most tangible stock in trade is publications — in English and other languages — for global dissemination through U.S. embassies, consulates and, now, the internet.
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"Entities designated as foreign missions must adhere to certain administrative requirements that also apply to foreign embassies and consulates in the United States," according to State Department documents obtained by Fox News.
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It added that it was strengthening communication with embassies and consulates of various countries in China, as well as with chambers of commerce, to extend its service to more foreign-funded enterprises.
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Petzold's answer, I think, can be found in the crowded consulates in which Georg waits alongside despairing men and women, caught in the stateless, agonizingly familiar limbo reproduced in today's refugee crisis.
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Last August, Washington shuttered the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco in response to Moscow's slashing of the staff of the U.S. embassy and consulates in Russia by 755 personnel, mostly local employees.
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Consulates should continue to interview applicants for so-called diversity visas, which are granted to individuals from countries that typically do not send many people to the United States, according to the cable.
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"Monday's steps hurts the official [people] working out of embassies and consulates, but that doesn't address the substantial activities we see by Russian intelligence acting without official diplomatic cover across Europe," they said.
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As fear and uncertainty rises in the Mexican community following Donald Trump's election, demand for consulates' services has surged across the country — one family in Texas arrived at their consulate at 5 a.m.
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That means that, barring any court orders in the next few days, immigrants can be denied new visas or green cards at consulates abroad under the Trump administration's 20-factor public charge test.
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In a separate video statement on Monday, Pena Nieto promised to better protect migrants north of the border, by channeling over 1 billion pesos ($48.16 million) into Mexican consulates in the United States.
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Embassies and consulates enjoy certain privileges and immunities under the 1961 Vienna Convention and Turkey would very likely want to hold voting on their premises to reach some 1.5 million expatriate Turkish voters.
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There were also fillips for ordinary Taiwanese, such as allowing them to seek help from Chinese consulates when travelling—something that has happened on occasion in the past but has now been formalised.
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The State Department's security arm has been told to plan for potentially violent protests at US embassies and consulates once the Trump administration announces it is moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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A government document seen by Reuters showed the cabinet had agreed to scrap tourist visas, which typically cost $20 to $40 and are applied for online or at Sri Lankan embassies and consulates.
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Carlson K. S. Chan, Hong Kong's labor commissioner, told reporters last week that the new clause on window washing represented a pragmatic compromise among labor unions, foreign consulates, migrant workers and their employers.
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His detention follows warnings by the French and Israeli consulates in the city about the performer, known for his homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic material, who holds a string of convictions in France.
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A Commission spokesman said the exact number of EU nationals waiting to return was difficult to estimate and appealed for them to make contact with their national consulates abroad to enable better estimates.
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The State Department announced last month that the US would begin treating five major Chinese media companies as extensions of Beijing's government, requiring them to comply with rules governing foreign embassies and consulates.
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The new eligibility tests will be considered primarily for those in the United States on visas seeking to change their status, as well as those applying at U.S. consulates abroad for green cards.
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The new eligibility tests will be considered primarily for those in the United States on visas seeking to change their status, as well as those applying at U.S. consulates abroad for green cards.
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The guidance would create new barriers for pregnant people at consulates abroad applying for B visas, which are offered to short-term visitors, including tourists, business travelers, and people seeking urgent medical care.
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The State Department has declined to comment on the exact number of Americans working at the Moscow embassy and three U.S. consulates in Russia, but it appears to be far less than 2202.
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The U.S. and Russia now each maintain three consulates within one another's respective borders, at a time when their relationship is widely perceived to be at its lowest point since the Cold War.
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According to the report, China now has 276 diplomatic posts globally, three more than the US. While they have an equal number of embassies, Beijing has more consulates around the world than Washington.
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The Marine Department said no injuries to persons or ship damage were reported and that it's in close liaison with the company and the relevant consulates to provide assistance, according to the SCMP.
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The size of the cuts being discussed will inevitably result in systematically degrading our diplomatic collection and protective systems by closing consulates and eliminating political reporting positions in embassies all over the globe.
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Finally, Trump increased funding for the US military in Europe, closed Russian consulates that hosted Russian spies, and agreed to give Ukraine "enhanced defensive weapons" to fend off Russian troops invading the country.
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This prompted Tehran to cut the power off and triggered widespread protests in the country's south, particularly in poverty-stricken Basra, where government buildings and the consulates of Iran and the U.S. were attacked.
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Separately, that FBI official had been trying to reach Kennedy about the issue of office space for agents in overseas embassies and consulates because Kennedy had a say in allocating space at diplomatic outposts.
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Several hundred thousand ethnic Chinese with dual foreign nationality now live in the city of 7.2 million, led by Canadians, Americans, British and Australians, according to figures provided by around a dozen foreign consulates.
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The consulates in New York for Honduras and El Salvador said they, too, were unclear how many of their young citizens were in the city, and of how to reach their relatives back home.
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One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said decisions about travel by employees stationed abroad would be made by U.S. embassies and consulates while Washington-based staff must obtain approval from their bureau.
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One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said decisions about travel by employees stationed abroad would be made by U.S. embassies and consulates while Washington-based staff must obtain approval from their bureau.
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Routine and emergency services for Americans in Italy will continue at the Consulate General in Milan, and full services are available at the Embassy in Rome and the Consulates General in Florence and Naples.
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Scared by rumors and rhetoric, some consulates have heard of immigrants taking drastic steps to avoid the authorities, like keeping their children home from school, quitting their jobs or selling their homes for cash.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — A 48-year-old man was charged on Thursday with mailing suspicious packages to foreign consulates in Australian cities this week, which the authorities said may have contained an unspecified hazardous material.
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This prompted Tehran to cut the power off and led to widespread protests in the country's south, particularly in poverty-stricken Basra, where government buildings and the consulates of Iran and the U.S. were attacked.
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"We now need your support: get our voices heard at your governments and consulates; let freedom prevail at the upcoming G20 summit and beyond," a draft of an ad that appeared on the group's gogetfunding.
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The government has stepped up efforts by its 50 consulates in the United States to encourage up to 5m Mexicans who are legally resident to take out American citizenship and vote—implicitly against Mr Trump.
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Officials told the AP that the instructions sent to U.S. embassies and consulates call for Chinese graduate students studying fields like robotics, aviation and high-technology manufacturing to receive visas valid only for one year.
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Venezuela The crisis in Venezuela kicked up a notch as President Nicolas Maduro announced he's closing the country's embassy and consulates in the US. He had already this week kicked US diplomats out of Venezuela.
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Maduro, who accuses the United States of meddling, said Thursday he was closing Venezuela's embassy and all its consulates in the United States, and has given US diplomats until this weekend to leave his country.
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Nielsen also said the department is working with embassies and consulates overseas to help immigrants understand what protections they can apply for and to have the proper paperwork to verify they are families in advance.
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"The best we can do is inform ourselves and be conscious about our situation, and to know that in the consulates we have personnel that is dedicated specifically to the subject of protection," he said.
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The 11 defections are out of a total of 56 Venezuelan diplomats in the country and include seven officials who work at consulates, three affiliated with the embassy and one official from the United Nations.
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" Since the election, the American retaliation has included closing some Russian consulates and recreation centers and expelling spies — actions one Obama national security official called "the perfect 19th-century solution to a 21st-century problem.
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It will affect the U.S. embassy in Beijing and the Consulates General in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang, a State Department spokesperson said, all of which will continue to provide consular services, as resources allow.
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"In the event that the situation deteriorates further, the ability of the British Embassy and Consulates to provide assistance to British nationals from within China may be limited," the UK government said in a statement.
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"Since the Russians have talked about parity, this is a very smart move because it gets us to parity on the number of consulates," said Patrick Kennedy, a former under secretary of state for management.
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The government does not track how many pregnant travelers come to the US on B visas, but the new rule says that US embassies and consulates have reported trends showing higher levels of birth tourism.
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As the Times reports, there was some intelligence indicating there was a threat to US forces, embassies and consulates in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, though the significance of this intelligence was unclear to the officials.
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At their Geneva summit in 1985, Reagan and Gorbachev debated nuclear arms and human rights issues, but reached concrete agreement on expanding scientific, educational, and cultural exchanges and opening reciprocal consulates in New York and Kiev.
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But she confirmed what her spokesman said last week, that Germany would not authorize Turkish consulates and embassies to act as polling stations on reinstating the death penalty - banned in all European Union countries - in Turkey.
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He added that the 50 Mexican consulates in the US will be used to defend the rights of immigrants in the country and issued a call to action to legislators and civic organizations to help immigrants.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Ankara and its consulates in Istanbul and Adana will be closed for normal operations on Tuesday after an individual approached the embassy and discharged a firearm, the embassy said.
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Leon Rodriguez, USCIS director under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, said the shift may have been aimed at cutting costs and that most duties now performed internationally by USCIS likely will be delegated to U.S. consulates abroad.
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Protesters plan a silent march on Wednesday to foreign consulates in the Asian financial hub to raise awareness among world leaders ahead of the summit, while the crowdfund campaign confirmed ads would appear in five newspapers.
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The plan, which would impact the US Embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, would reduce diplomatic and technical staff to 455 people, the same number Russia has in the United States.
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Named MigrAdvisor - in a nod to travel website TripAdvisor - the app uses geolocation to show users on a map where to find health facilities, police headquarters, embassies, consulates, kindergartens, post offices, Caritas centers and other services.
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Mexico can exercise unique regional and international leadership on this subject by strengthening current programs and encouraging consulates to strengthen their local niches to engage with LGBT actors and allies in order to construct support networks.
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The Mexican statement added that Mexico's 50 consulates in the United States — the largest consular network in the world — will defend recipients of DACA, who are sometimes referred to as "Dreamers," after another piece of legislation.
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In Western countries, analysts say, the party exerts influence over Chinese immigrants and students through embassies, consulates and community organizations, as well as business interests with the financial leverage to shape local Chinese-language media coverage.
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The guidance was directed to social media managers who oversee hundreds of official government accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms used by State Department agencies, consulates and embassies to communicate information and U.S. foreign policy.
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Many of them were pulled back to Kabul with the closing of consulates in Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif, and at least two other diplomatic outposts around Afghanistan, as the United States military began to withdraw.
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And consulates have been distributing fliers detailing what to do if someone is approached by deportation agents — advising them not to open their doors without proof of a warrant or speak to officers without a lawyer.
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Dozens of Russian diplomats were expelled this week from consulates in the U.S. and Britain, followed closely by the reciprocal expulsion of American diplomats from Moscow and the closure of a U.S. consulate in St. Petersberg.
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Tensions between the two NATO allies rose in recent days after the detentions of two locally employed staff prompted the United States on Sunday to suspend non-immigrant visa services at its embassy and consulates in Turkey.
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During the press briefing Wednesday, Sanders defended the admininstration&aposs "tough" stance on Russia, listing their recent actions against Moscow--including sanctions, the expulsion of 60 Russian operatives from the U.S., and the closing of two consulates.
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Police in Australia said on Wednesday they are investigating several suspicious packages sent to embassies and consulates, which media reports and other officials said included the U.S. and British missions, in the cities of Melbourne and Canberra.
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Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Carlos Sada said Mexico respected decisions by the United States but added that Mexico had increased the number of places where its citizens could seek information and legal aid from consulates.
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Holding placards including "Please Liberate Hong Kong" and chanting "Help Hong Kong," the demonstrators, some wearing masks, marched to a succession of consulates represented at the Group of 20 major economies summit in Japan's Osaka this weekend.
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For security purposes, since 2002, all U.S. passports issued to international travelers at embassies and consulates around the world have contained biometric data, including a ten fingerprint scan, contained in a microchip embedded in the back cover.
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"One of the most important tasks of the Department of State and U.S. embassies and consulates abroad is to provide assistance to U.S. citizens who are detained abroad," a spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm said.
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Now to be clear here: this was considered a compromise -- Democrats, in closed door talks, talked about the value of in-country processing locations to apply for asylum in embassies and consulates in certain Central American countries.
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"We have instructed our ambassadors, consulates and representatives around the world to inform relevant state agencies and governments regarding the succession and that it is proceeding according to the constitution and royal laws and traditions," it said.
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The parents of Venezuelan children born abroad often struggle to register their baby's birth, either because they do not have access to an ever-shrinking number of Venezuelan consulates or because they do not have migration papers.
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World Police in Australia are investigating suspicious packages sent to a wide range of embassies and consulates, which officials said included the U.S. and British missions in Melbourne, but there were no reports of harm to staff.
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Since the coronavirus outbreak became international news, Adama, who&aposs in the US&aposs Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, has had little communication with the US&aposs embassies and consulates despite multiple attempts to reach out, she said.
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Some US officials had expected Moscow then to restrict access to the US consulate in St. Petersburg, which has long been a target of both Russian spies and everyday vandals, or the US consulates in Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg.
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Moscow said Friday that the US must reduce the staff at its embassy and consulates to 450, the same number Russia is allowed to have in the US. Moscow is also barring Americans from using two diplomatic facilities.
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Consulates will expand their ID program, which in many cases provides undocumented immigrants with their only government-issued ID. Services to provide legal assistance and assistance obtaining birth certificates, both Mexican and American, will also be expanded upon.
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"People who are traveling to Turkey for private or business reasons are urged to exercise increased caution, and should register with German consulates and the embassy, even for shorter visits," the ministry said in a revised travel guidance.
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The U.S. Department of State has already instructed all its embassies and consulates around the world that refugees from the six banned countries must prove bona fide ties to obtain visas or permits to enter the United States.
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Embassies and consulates the world over are seen as places of political refuge, and while they are subject to some local laws, the facility and the diplomatic staff working inside are shielded from law enforcement in some cases.
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In Hong Kong: Protesters gathered outside foreign governments' consulates to demand that world leaders raise their concerns at the G-53 summit over a proposed extradition bill that would give Beijing access to criminal suspects in the city.
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Over the course of more than two decades after she left, she taught math and science in public schools and worked in various I.T. positions at embassies and consulates where her husband was posted with the foreign service.
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Mexico said its 26 consulates in the United States would work to protect the rights of Mexican immigrants, while America's so-called sanctuary cities, including New York, Boston and Los Angeles, vowed to resist stepped-up immigration enforcement.
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On this day in 2010, five major newspapers — in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Spain — simultaneously published 220 of the more than 250,000 leaked diplomatic cables gleaned from 274 U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.
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The next day, his spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, said that the fellows would have to serve two years as clerks in consulates before being considered for the Foreign Service, a huge step down from what they had originally been offered.
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"We regularly provide updated operational instructions to our embassies and consulates around the world to ensure that our consular officers are using the most up-to-date vetting procedures as they adjudicate visas," the official said on condition of anonymity.
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Mexican consulates "have intensified their work of protecting fellow nationals, foreseeing more severe immigration measures to be implemented by the authorities of this country, and possible violations to constitutional precepts during such operations and problems with due process," the statement said.
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He said ISI research also suggested that Turkish consulates were refusing to renew passports of other Turkish citizens living abroad "who have a black mark against their name", and were refusing to grant nationality to their children, potentially leaving them stateless.
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And it is credible that a small number of ideologically zealous or politically ambitious students may feel compelled to report plans for anti-government protests to consulates and embassies, which obviously have an interest in keeping abreast of such developments.
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More than a thousand protesters marched to major foreign consulates on Wednesday calling on leaders at the upcoming G-20 summit to raise the plight of Hong Kong with China and to support the full scrapping of a controversial extradition bill.
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By contrast, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) wants the government immediately to follow the example of other countries in the region, such as South Africa, Mozambique and Botswana, which let their citizens vote in their embassies and consulates abroad.
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All the evidence points in this direction, the CIA has concluded that MBS was involved, and it's frankly just common sense that a country's intelligence service isn't going to murder somebody in one of its consulates just on a whim.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Police in Australia are investigating suspicious packages sent to a wide range of embassies and consulates on Wednesday, which officials said included the U.S. and British missions in Melbourne, but there were no reports of harm to staff.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers called on Thursday for Washington to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at one of the country's consulates in Turkey and vowed that Congress would act if the Trump administration did not.
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The fourth suicide bombing in Turkey this year hit part of Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian zone lined with global brand name shops and foreign consulates, just a few hundred yards from an area where police buses are usually parked.
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This has created a network of allies to carry out consular functions in a more effective manner; through daily interactions with U.S. authorities, community organizations, academic and financial institutions, and media, consulates connect key actors and authorities with Mexican nationals.
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Saudi investment minister Majid bin Abdullah al-Qasabi said it would open its consulate in Baghdad on Thursday to begin issuing visas for Iraqis and that three other consulates would be opened in Iraq, according to Iraq's state news agency.
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"We were told the consulates didn't believe us that there was extreme hardship even though our house was on foreclosure, my dad had lost his job during the recession, and I wasn't old enough to have a job," says Abbas.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Hong Kong joined an evening protest and marched to major foreign consulates on Wednesday, urging leaders gathering for this week's G20 summit to back their demand to scrap a much criticized extradition bill.
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Holding placards with messages such as "Please liberate Hong Kong", the demonstrators, some wearing masks, marched to consulates of major economies represented at the Japan summit, including the host nation, Britain, Canada, Russia, the United States and the European Union.
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Turkey detained more than a dozen American citizens, including Mr. Golge, as well as three Turkish employees ofUnited States Consulates, in a crackdown after the failed coup — arrests that have become a major point of conflict between the two countries.
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Trump's national security adviser says "the evidence" of Russian involvement in the 2016 election "is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain," and other members of the administration have talked tough on nuclear weapons proliferation and closing consulates.
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"We regularly provide updated operational instructions to our embassies and consulates around the world to ensure that our consular officers are using the most up-to-date vetting procedures as they adjudicate visas," an unnamed State Department official told Reuters.
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Maduro broke off diplomatic relations and ordered Venezuela's embassy and consulates in the United States closed after the Trump administration recognized Guaido, who invoked Venezuela's constitution to declare himself president, arguing that Maduro's May 2018 re-election was a sham.
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Foreign Service officers in more than 280 embassies and consulates aid American citizens in trouble overseas, help American companies overcome unfair barriers to trade and investment, coordinate counterterrorism and narcotics programs and manage development and humanitarian aid to distressed countries.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto has allocated an additional $50 million to Mexico's consulates to help migrants in the United States, and the country's Congress has changed the law to make it easier for children who have returned to enroll in school.
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That's the best way to overstretch Iran and make it the most detested country in Iraq — where Iraqi Shiites have already burned down two Iranian consulates out of their hatred of being dominated by Iranians — not to mention the whole region.
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About 1,000 people, most of them dressed in black and wearing face masks, marched on a route that took them by the consulates of Australia, Britain, the European Union, the United States, Japan and Canada, to drop off a petition.
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And he could get that by wiping out international spending — so closing all US embassies and consulates around the world, zeroing all aid to developing nations, ending all military funding for allies, and closing the State Department, among other functions.
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Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the city center and marched to consulates of G20 nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, to deliver letters urging leaders to back their bid for the full withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill.
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New administration, new fears The recent surge in applications for dual citizenship in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami and New York coincided with the transition of power in the White House, and even the outcome of the November election for some consulates.
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But USCIS is in "preliminary discussions to shift its international workload to our domestic offices and, where practicable, to US embassies and consulates abroad to maximize resources and free up funds to help address growing backlogs," Jessica Collins, an agency spokesperson, said.
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While they've long operated an app and a phone hotline that gives callers counseling on current immigration policy and consular services, that hotline now operates around the clock so that consulates can instantly respond if a Mexican national lands in legal trouble.
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Another proposes that America lean on international financial institutions like the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to suspend loans to Turkey until it releases Mr Brunson and three local employees of American consulates detained over the past year.
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"The late diplomat served at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the EU, at the General Consulates in Rio de Janeiro and Rotterdam and at the Greek Embassy in Belgrade during the first phase of the war in Yugoslavia," the statement said.
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It helps to know where your embassies and consulates are in the countries you're visiting, since many embassies will help their citizens when there's unrest, says Bloom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's chief academic officer and director of terrorism, intelligence and security studies.
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In an effort to stem the build up of migrants in Chiapas, INM said this month that citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala will be able to register for the visas through Mexican consulates in their home countries from late May.
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"Since this issue contravenes the policy of the State and international law and norms, please ensure that all our embassies and consulates in the countries that host Iraqi nationals are ensuring they are not subject to deportation or forced return," he added.
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Hundreds of protesters, dressed in black and white T-shirts, demonstrated at foreign governments' consulates in Hong Kong to demand that world leaders address their concerns at the annual summit meeting of the Group of 20 later this week in Osaka, Japan.
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"As we have internally shared, U.S.C.I.S. is in preliminary discussions to consider reallocation of its international U.S.C.I.S. office workloads to U.S.C.I.S. domestic offices in the United States and, where practicable, to U.S. embassies and consulates abroad," she said in response to emailed questions.
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Unlike the chaotic rollout of the president's first executive order, the latest travel restrictions have clear exceptions for people who already have permission to enter the United States, so there should be few instances of people being detained at airports or consulates.
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The president opted to kill General Suleimani, despite disputes in the administration about the significance of what some officials said was a new stream of intelligence that warned of threats to American embassies, consulates and military personnel in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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As of 250, the latest year for which public records are available, there were 260,218 staff members working in the American Embassy in Moscow and in consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, according to a report by the Inspector General's Office.
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The State Department has authorized the departure of non-emergency US government employees at its embassy in Beijing, as well as those working at consulates in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenyang as concerns over the coronavirus continued to spread, a department spokesperson said.
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In a video message delivered on Twitter on Wednesday night, Mr. Peña Nieto reiterated his commitment to protect the interests of Mexico and the Mexican people, and pledged to devote the resources of Mexico's consulates in the United States to protecting its citizens.
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The move by the U.S. Embassy — which is also going to suspend issuing visas at its consulates in other Russian locations — comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the U.S. to cut 755 U.S. diplomatic mission staff in Russia, The Associated Press reported.
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For more than 70 years, Moscow has filled its embassy and consulates in the United States with intelligence operatives — as Washington does with its own diplomatic outposts in Russia — giving them the mission of stealing the most significant secrets of a longtime adversary.
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Late on Tuesday, Palestinian national and Islamic groups issued a joint statement calling for three days of "popular anger" to protest Mr. Trump's move, beginning on Wednesday throughout the Palestinian territories and in demonstrations at United States embassies and consulates around the world.
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Past assaults on US embassies and consulates in Tehran in 1979, Nairobi in 1998, and Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 led to massive changes in embassy design, security strategies, and training protocols for the special agents charged with protecting US diplomatic presences abroad.
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Videgaray said in a television interview that Mexican consulates in the US have received three times as many phone calls from citizens there as before the US election in November, after Trump promised during his campaign to deport millions of undocumented migrants.
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Various agencies and consulates work together to "coordinate the return of a child and transfer of custody to the parent or foreign government upon arrival in country, in accordance with repatriation agreements between the U.S. and other countries," an agency spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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However these tactics are more of a hammer than a scalpel, and blocking all VPNs can significantly raise the stakes for censors -- VPNs are routinely used by large corporations and consulates for secure communications, and they will definitely not be happy if they're taken offline.
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Medical schools considering early graduation for students Meantime, the US State Department on Thursday updated its guidelines to encourage foreign medical professionals with approved visa petitions to request visa appointments, even as all US embassies and consulates on March 20 temporarily suspended routine visa services.
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Under the agreements, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Wage and Hour Division will work with consulates to provide workers from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and the Philippines, including those with H-2A and H-2B visas, information about U.S. labor laws.
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But experts also attribute the change to the trade war with China; limited governmental support for organizations marketing the United States; safety concerns among international travelers who are wary about mass shootings; and long visa-processing times in embassies and consulates around the world.
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A senior United States military officer said the deployment of the 82nd Airborne paratroopers and other ground forces was defensive, meant to position more troops in the Middle East who could be quickly deployed to defend or reinforce American embassies, consulates and military bases.
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" In a strongly worded statement that nonetheless fell short of an outright travel warning, the German Foreign Ministry urged Germans traveling to Turkey to exercise caution and register with the German Embassy in Ankara, or one of Germany's consulates in Turkey, "even for short trips.
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Mr. Trump made the decision, senior officials said on Saturday, despite disputes in the administration about the significance of what some officials said was a new stream of intelligence that warned of threats to American embassies, consulates and military personnel in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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A DHS spokesman says prior to instituting the new waiver procedure ordered last June, separated parents were routinely asked by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and their home consulates if they wished to be reunited with their children before being removed to their home countries.
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Our Embassies and Consulates around the world will process visa applications and issue nonimmigrant and immigrant visas to otherwise eligible visa applicants who apply with a passport from an unrestricted country, even if they hold dual nationality from one of the seven restricted countries.
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When parents are removed without their children, ICE, ORR, and the consulates work together to coordinate the return of a child and transfer of custody to the parent or foreign government upon arrival in country, in accordance with repatriation agreements between the U.S. and other countries.
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The two-pronged effort focuses on China, the source of 90 percent of Pyongyang's trade, but also on nations around the world that use North Korea's workers, host its consulates and companies, buy its military equipment and allow its planes to transit or land on their territory.
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The decision to temporarily stop issuing non-immigrant visas at the US embassy and consulates in Turkey came over the weekend, was spurred by the arrest of a Turkish employee working at a division of the embassy tasked with fostering law enforcement cooperation between the two countries.
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American officials have said that it is their highest priority to gain freedom for the three Turkish employees of United States Consulates in Adana and Istanbul and a Turkish-American NASA scientist, Serkan Golge, who were detained in a sweeping government crackdown after the failed coup attempt.
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The designation, which is one step down from a mandatory evacuation, means that the staff at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Consulates General in four other cities, along with their family members and all non-emergency U.S. government employees, are permitted to leave the country.
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"Know that I will continue to pray for our country, our leaders, and your efforts to make this world a better place than we found it," Tillerson said in a message to the U.S. embassies and consulates, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
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They have been shot at, wounded, blown up and killed when deployed with U.S. military forces in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and when assigned at embassies and consulates in multiple terrorist ridden places, such as Ambassador Chris Stevens and his colleagues in Benghazi.
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But if Rubio forges ahead, he could get another $540 billion or so by wiping out international spending — so closing all US embassies and consulates around the world, zeroing out all aid to developing nations, ending all military funding for allies, and closing the State Department, among other functions.
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After months of angry statements, diplomatic expulsions, and shuttered consulates, US and Russian officials have quietly put an end to the tit-for-tat retaliations between the two sides, and US officials are now considering reviving parts of a Russian proposal from March to strengthen military-to-military contacts.
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Members of the royal family typically stay at consulates or embassies or upmarket hotels during visits and tours, but Harry – who "has been moved by the stories of resilience of the Nepali people following the earthquakes last year," a spokesman said in a statement – wants a different experience.
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Trump's order, which calls for "enhancing vetting capabilities" at U.S. embassies and consulates overseas, directs the departments of State and Homeland Security to restrict the entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen - as well as from Venezuela and North Korea.
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The order leaves the U.S. mission with 455 staff in Russia, the exact same number the Kremlin has in the U.S. According to a 2013 government report, the U.S. mission in Russia – which includes an embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok – employed 20163,279 staff.
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The order leaves the U.S. mission with 455 staff in Russia, the exact same number the Kremlin has in the U.S. According to a 2013 government report, the U.S. mission in Russia – which includes an embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok – employed 1,279 staff.
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Meanwhile, a series of diplomatic cables, sent in recent weeks from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, told officials at US consulates around the world to prepare to ask a lot more questions of people applying for visas — including everywhere they'd lived and worked for the past 290 years.
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So in late 1939, a couple of months after the German invasion of Poland, the Portuguese Foreign Ministry issued its infamous Circular 14 to all embassies and consulates, announcing new regulations concerning categories of people who would not be issued visas without direct approval from the Foreign Ministry.
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The Indonesian consulates in Kota Kinabalu and Tawau, Malaysia, are working with Malaysian authorities, the owners of the vessels and other crew members to gather further information on the incident, Lalu Muhamad Iqbal, Indonesian citizen protection director at the ministry, said in a written statement received by Reuters.
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The order leaves the US mission with 455 staff in Russia, the exact same number the Kremlin has in the US. According to a 2013 government report, the US mission in Russia—which includes an embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok—employed 1,279 staff.
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