What is a U.S embassy?

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What is a U.S embassy?

Answer 1

Thats messed up that they gave the Muslims Beogrades city bcuz Beograd had it like for A million year(sarcastic)

Answer 2

US History Encyclopedia: Embassies

Embassies are the official missions through which nations conduct their foreign affairs. Embassies are headed by ambassadors, the highest-ranking diplomats stationed abroad. In the United States, the president, with the consent of the Senate, appoints ambassadors. From these outposts, ambassadors and their staffs promote the interests of their nation, work to protect citizens traveling abroad, and gather information about the host country.

An American embassy not only serves as the headquarters of the ambassador, who acts as the president's representative in the host country, but it is also a busy office for lower-ranking diplomats, U.S. Department of State employees, and officials from other foreign affairs agencies. The embassy's staff of Foreign Service officers is divided into four sections: political, economic, consular, and administrative. Political officers are responsible for keeping the ambassador and State Department informed about the political climate in the host country. They analyze developments in light of American foreign policy goals. Economic officers assess the host country's financial dealings, including exports and imports, and conduct commercial negotiations over matters such as patent rights and trade regulations. Consular officers work to ensure the safety of Americans traveling or working abroad and determine whether foreigners should receive immigrant or tourist visas to enter the United States. Administrative officers manage the day-to-day operations of the embassy. Foreign service officers normally spend two to three years serving in one embassy. They are then transferred to another foreign post or brought back to the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Most embassies include employees of other foreign affairs agencies, such as the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Information Agency, the Commerce Department, the Defense Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency. U.S. marines and other military personnel provide security for embassies. In most embassies, foreign nationals make up some of the administrative staff. An embassy's staff can be as small as the U.S. embassy in Dublin, which in 1995 had 36 employees, or as big as the Moscow embassy, which had a staff of 288.

Embassies are considered an extension of the home country's territory, so no one is permitted to enter an embassy without the ambassador's permission. However, because embassies serve as tangible representatives of the home country, they can become targets for political opposition in the host country.

Answer 3

An official office of one country in another.  It represents it's home country in political matters to the host country.

Answer 4

idk

Answer 5

are government representatives in other countries.

they will represent you in times when  you are convicted of something illegal in a different country.

Answer 6

An embassy is is the official residence or office of the ambassador to a given foreign country.

From the U.S. perspective, and others, an embassy does not always have a resident ambassador. The ambassador to a number of Caribbean counties is the same person, so there's not a residence and it may not even have an office used as an embassy. Also true of African small nations, e.g. the Seychelles which has so few residents that it isn't important enough in US terms to warrant either an ambassador or an embassy. The Seychelles embassy is normally represented by an ambassador assigned to a larger country who has several in his/her portfolio. Technically, in a case like that the Embassy and the Ambassador are the same, i.e. the Embassy is personified. This doesn't diminish any country or people -- it's just a reflection of the need for relations. Embassies are quite expensive to operate.

There have been ambassadors to the Seychelles. It would not merit someone in residence of a high State Department career rank except in times of great difficulty. A certain percentage of embassies are given ambassadors as political rewards. Perhaps 25 percent. They are usually given Deputy Chiefs of Mission who represent the professional diplomats and keep the politicians out of trouble. A few politicians are quite skillled as diplomats, e.g. Bill Richardson.

The U.S. has an ambassador to the United Nations in New York, but he works not at an "embassy" but a mission.

If you ever run into someone who wasn't a career diplomat who claims to have been ambassador to the Seychelles, you can be sure of one thing. He was a political appointee who screwed up and who was so bast---dly desperate for the lifetime honorific of "ambassador" he'd go anywhere to get it -- even a vacation in the beautiful Seychelles among some of the most wonderful people in the world.

You can also be sure he was so worthless that they didn't trust him to go anywhere important.

In most cases, in countries where nations do not have embassies, the interests of their citizens are represented by consultates or sometimes have "consuls" who may be volunteers who offer to help citizens of a given country of origin.

There are also quasi embassies. The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Cuba, but that is a fiction of sorts. We have an "American Interests" section in another embassy of another country where our diplomats work. In some instances there are resident diplomts. On other occasions, that may be too risky, so the other country does the needed work, in exchange for like favors or for payment.

Answer 7

A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the permanent mission, namely the office of a country's diplomatic representatives in the capital city of another country.

Answer 8

It is something that many little pissant cuntrey's[yes i spelled it wrong] seem to think it's ok to attack. Unfortuantly the US gov, doesn't allow our guards to fire on the fu. c.kers.