Consular access without being able to do true consular support is not real access.
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British consular staff members had visited Mr. Tamalt during his detention and provided him with consular services.
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The government's newest Consular Strategy, released in 2017, notes that there's no legal requirement to extend consular assistance to permanent residents under international law.
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"Canadian consular officials have been actively engaged throughout this case and continue to provide consular services to Mr. Baxter and his family," it said.
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"Canadian consular officials have been actively engaged throughout this case and continue to provide consular services to Mr. Baxter and his family," the statement said.
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Thus, through our consular offices data can be acquired to assist authorities to develop more accurate outreach policies, create better resources and improve consular services and programs.
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She was visited by Australian consular officials in December and January after being denied consular visits in the past, including during the months that her letters were written.
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Chinese consular staff were rushing to Essex on Thursday to assess the situation and press for answers, China's consular affairs office said on the Chinese social media service Weibo.
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Cardenas, who is due to die on Wednesday, was not given the chance to speak with consular officials in contravention of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Sada said.
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And Turkey should note that under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, consular officers can be arrested "in the case of a grave crime"; Turkey should consider prosecution.
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The U.S. embassy limited consular services in a similar move in 2014, citing the expulsion of three consular officer and delays in approving visas to bring in new ones.
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Washington has described him as a hostage and demanded the immediate release of the pastor and two detained U.S. consular staff and a third consular staffer under house arrest.
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"We have requested and we do expect consular access at the earliest possible opportunity in accordance with the bilateral consular agreement," Ms. Payne said at a news conference in Sydney.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 established the current consular control system, under which any alien seeking to immigrate to the United States must obtain a visa from a U.S. consular officer abroad.
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Thanks to the Consular General Officers who expedited the process.
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She also said Australia was seeking consular access to Yang.
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S. Embassy Tegucigalpa is providing consular assistance to the families.
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"We have serious consular needs around the world," she said.
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S. consular offices may limit how long visas are valid.
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Canadian consular officials have not been able to see them.
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It is unclear if Desouky has been granted consular visits.
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While Australia does provide plenty of consular and legal support to trouble-stricken citizens overseas, there are "limits to what we can do" — with Bishop stressing that there are 15,000 consular cases a year.
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Another consular employee is under house arrest while a third consular employee, in the southern city of Adana, was convicted in February of membership of an armed terrorist organization and jailed for four years.
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He worked as a consular and political officer at U.S. embassies in Macedonia, Trinidad and Hungary, with temporary consular assignments in Poland and Bulgaria, and also has worked in the Bureau of African Affairs.
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The decision left thousands of Venezuelans in Florida without consular representation.
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After his visit, some Saudi consular staff flew to Saudi Arabia.
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What comes after the US consular visit is as yet unclear.
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Consular officials are providing assistance to Mr. Lim and his family.
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The consular annex will change its name to the U.S. embassy.
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He added that consular services for the man were being arranged.
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All American consular activities there are handled by the Swedish Embassy.
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This will expand the Consular Fellows program with the State Department.
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Lee loved working alongside the Cuban staffers in the consular section.
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The consular staff instructed him to return Tuesday at 1 p.m.
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That's because passport and consular services are funded by fee revenue.
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The ambassador said that the woman had been provided consular assistance throughout her trial, including the provision of a lawyer and consular visits, and that the country's government had provided her family with updates to her case.
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Speaking in Beijing on Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China and Canada had "smooth" consular communication on the cases of the two Canadians and confirmed China had arranged consular access for both of them.
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The State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs advised American citizens against traveling.
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As journalists rushed to the scene, consular officials quickly changed the narrative.
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Consular services are being provided to the family during this difficult time.
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She added that Marchal had received consular visits and had a lawyer.
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Canada has been provided "necessary help" to get consular access, she said.
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The consular function abroad is the responsibility of the Department of State.
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Veprek started out as a consular officer in 2002, according to Congress.
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Twenty consular staff survived the attack with no injuries, German officials said.
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" A consular worker murmurs: "This is her identification number... Keep this number.
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"They are crazy," Han, the consular official, said of the Mexican fans.
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Nevertheless, he proposed the restart of consular relations between the two countries.
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U.S. Consulate General Erbil remains open and continues to provide consular services.
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The team includes consular officials and members of Canada's Transportation Safety Board.
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Consular officers may have some flexibility in determining who gets a visa.
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Consular services and diplomatic engagements will not be affected, the embassy said.
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He was debriefed by consular officials, who granted him extended paid leave.
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"The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance, in accordance with the Consular Services Charter, to an Australian arrested in Shanghai," a spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters when asked about the case.
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Attempts to reach Chinese consular officials in Los Angeles were not immediately successful.
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The U.S. Embassy in Belmopan stands ready to provide all possible consular assistance.
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We are providing consular support to British Nationals caught up in today's events.
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An interview with a consular official went well and other agencies signed off.
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The U.S. Embassy in Belmopan has provided consular assistance to Mr. DeVoursney's family.
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The opening ceremony is at a U.S. consular building in the Arnona neighborhood.
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A source told Reuters the consular official had been shot in the chest.
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He is being given access to his lawyer and to French consular services.
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Consular officers will seek to visit Mr Assange at his place of detention.
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He is the second US consular staff member to be detained this year.
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The Indonesian foreign ministry said it had requested consular access to the woman.
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They also made clear that consular officials' careers hinged upon accomplishing that goal.
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North Korean diplomats or consular officials are only allowed one bank account each.
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Washington also says a third locally employed consular staffer is under house arrest.
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There would be an ahistoric subplot involving Parthian interference in the consular elections.
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Imagine, to be disappeared even under the protection of your own consular officials.
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Both have been refused consular access throughout their detention, the French government says.
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DFAT is also providing consular assistance to a third Australian national in Iran.
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Iran refuses to recognize dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.
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The Canadian ambassador to Beijing, John McCallum, and two Canadian consular officers visited Mr. Kovrig for about a half-hour four days after he was arrested, and he will be allowed one consular a visit a month, the person said.
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Ms. Bishop said Australia had offered Mr. Assange consular assistance, should he need it.
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The teenager eventually alerted British consular officials and was rescued days before the wedding.
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The embassy said the women had been lightly injured and were receiving consular assistance.
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The assistant foreign minister for consular affairs confirmed the information with the news agency.
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Bishop said consular officials had met with the detained crew and were providing assistance.
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Meet these standards and the consular officer is supposed to grant them a waiver.
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As a Canadian, he has had occasional consular visits and some letters from family.
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Consular officials are providing assistance to the couple and monitoring developments, the spokesperson said.
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Citing privacy reasons, the official declined to go into detail about specific consular cases.
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Germany said it would take back fighters only if the suspects have consular access.
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" "Mr Assange will continue to receive the usual consular support from the Australian Government.
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The row deepened after Turkish authorities arrested two U.S. consular staff, both Turkish nationals.
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Consular officers have virtually unchecked authority to interpret the vague statute and deny visas.
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Lines of people queue outside each day for visa appointments and other consular business.
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With few guidelines and vast discretion, consular officials could basically do what they wanted.
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Restoration of U.S. consular services in Russia could facilitate a return to level 2.
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The Bureau of Consular Affairs declined to comment on the specifics of the changes.
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In the United States, Soviet consular officials confiscated his passport, forcing him to remain.
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The team includes consular officials and two members of Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB).
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You'll need to report your lost or stolen passport to the consular section specifically.
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The team includes consular officials and two members of Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB).
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Actually, consular officers have been attuned to the risks and screen visa applicants carefully.
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We are closely monitoring local authorities' investigation and are providing all appropriate consular assistance.
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United States consular interests in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, are represented by Sweden.
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Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said Ukraine was trying to get consular access to them.
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"These guys (consular officers) have had enough whiplash over the past six, seven months but they continue to fulfill their role, which is to process visa applications," said Stephen Pattison, a former State Department consular official now working as an immigration attorney.
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In fact, consular officers in particular have become so secondary that it is not uncommon to find an embassy where the ambassador meets with the USAID mission director multiple times per week but with their consular section chief monthly, if at all.
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The Foreign Office statement about consular assistance came shortly after a news conference by Russia's ambassador to Britain, Alexander Yakovenko, during which he repeatedly said Russia had asked for consular access to Yulia Skripal and had received no response from the British authorities.
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Consular officers have been able to visit the Australian nationals, who were detained on Oct.
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The five Americans detained in Haiti US consular services have visited the Americans in detention.
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The Irish embassy in Kuala Lumpur said it was providing consular assistance to Quoirin's family.
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A few others including Britain said they can't help, according to consular agreements with China.
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Political work, and even more so consular work, frequently involves confrontation with the host government.
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The bureau of Consular Affairs is one of the largest sections of the State Department.
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"The Holy See doesn't have business to promote or consular activities to direct," Rooney said.
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He said the ambassador and consular staff would have to leave Venezuela within 24 hours.
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Chongqing firms are also outbound investors, and consular representatives from 10 countries are based there.
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Meantime, Indonesia has sought consular access to Siti Aishah, the Indonesian woman held in detention.
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It was not clear if he was referring to Gulen or the third consular employee.
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When the consular official approved it, Allami sat down on the embassy floor and wept.
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Turkish citizens, who spoke English and Dutch, posed as consular officers and staffed the operation.
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The State Department is drafting similar rules for consular officers to use in issuing visas.
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The US Embassy in Israel said it has been providing consular services to Jones' family.
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Berube said consular officials were providing support for Tilley and Chitty and for their families.
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So have the criteria by which consular officers evaluate the waiver applications they do receive.
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"Russia's obligations under the Vienna Convention require them to provide consular access," the officer said.
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Max and Fanny Valfer, for example, had a consular appointment in Marseille scheduled for Dec.
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Consular officials were not allowed to see him until Friday, five days after his arrest.
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It has detained two United States consular staff members and nine Americans on terrorism charges.
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Americans seeking consular services abroad faced longer wait times during the freeze, the report found.
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There are also smaller bases in Izmir and Mugla and U.S. consular agent in Izmir.
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Secondly, the rule depends on the incredibly broad, unreviewable, and unappealable discretion of consular officers.
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" The embassy announced Wednesday that all public consular services had been suspended "until further notice.
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In 2015, an Odebrecht employee arranged a meeting in Miami with an Antiguan consular official.
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To obtain a card, undocumented immigrants often use a foreign passport or consular identification document.
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Hodkinson remembers one client who, after his consular appointment, had tears streaming down his face.
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The U.S. consular officer "refused to even take my passport to process anything," Jarhum said.
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In a statement, the Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego said that it "gave prompt assistance; in this regard, we supported the child's mother within the framework of our consular protection programs, in observance to the protocols of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations."
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I also am grateful to the US consular staff at the embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said that it was providing consular assistance to Ricketson.
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"The practice of offering consular assistance to permanent residents of Australia will cease," the document states.
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The Czechs provide consular services for European Union citizens and act as intermediaries for other countries.
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We have also been providing consular support to the man&aposs family, who have requested privacy.
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The Indonesian embassy has requested consular access to the woman to provide legal assistance, it added.
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On Monday, Russian consular officials were allowed to meet the crew, whom they described as healthy.
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A spokesman for the agency said Canadian officials are providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizen.
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Canadian consular officials will continue to meet with Alaradi weekly, and will follow the trial closely.
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U.S. citizens who lost their passports met with consular officials who came to Durango to assist.
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it is providing consular assistance to her family.
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" Canada has provided consular access and due process for Ms. Meng, " Risch said in a statement.
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It has provided, and will continue to provide, consular services to American citizens and visa applicants.
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Only one Cuban diplomat would be left to handle consular affairs in Washington, Rodríguez Parilla said.
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France's finance minister said Ghosn must have the presumption of innocence and was getting consular protection.
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The girl's father is reportedly still in El Paso awaiting a meeting with Guatemalan consular officials.
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Australia is leading the consular efforts in King and Firkin's case, The Times of London reported.
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Jason Rezaian was denied access to counsel and consular officials during his stay at Evin Prison.
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When she registered, she showed a hotel employee her Mexican consular ID. The worker photocopied it.
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He can still meet with lawyers and consular officials from countries for which he holds citizenship.
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"As it is routine in these cases, we offer consular support to our citizen," he said.
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While Trump demanded "extreme vetting," rigorous review has been a hallmark of consular decisions for decades.
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Sweden provides so-called protective consular services for those countries, including meeting with citizens imprisoned there.
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C.S.S.A. leaders may meet occasionally with consular officials for briefings on employment laws or safety issues.
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His body washed up near a village, and a US consular officer went to retrieve it.
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She also complained that Australian consular officials have been denied access to Yang since end-2019.
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Payne said Australian consular officials have been denied access to Yang since the end of 2019.
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The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang handles consular affairs for the Americans held there on Washington's behalf.
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Due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound, all consular operations are suspended.
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The agency issued a worldwide "ALDAC," or All Diplomatic and Consular Affairs Cable, about the sanctions.
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He said he had not received a visit from Canadian authorities or been offered consular help.
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The U.S. embassy in Moscow said a consular official had visited Whelan in custody on Thursday.
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"The FDFA is in contact with relatives and supports them with consular protection," the spokeswoman said.
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Consular access Meanwhile, Iran's Ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said Thursday that the Indian Embassy in Tehran had been granted consular access to 18 Indian crew members on board the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz last week.
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"Although consular premises are inviolable according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the receiving state can conduct an examination in these premises with the consent of the head of the diplomatic mission," spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry Hami Aksoy said in a statement Tuesday.
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If the consular officer determines, after consultation with the Visa Office, that an applicant does not pose a threat to national security or public safety and the other two waiver requirements have been met, a visa may be issued with the concurrence of a consular manager.
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Once it is operational, the Swiss will be able to provide consular services to Americans in Venezuela.
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On Monday, the U.S. State department authorized the departure of U.S. government employees and curbed consular services.
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Will he start demanding Cruz's Consular Report of Birth Abroad, as he did President Obama's birth certificate?
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Firefighters who were sent to the building were turned away by consular officials, the Associated Press reported.
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They have not let him select his own attorney, and they have not provided unrestricted consular access.
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Mr. Khosravi opted to stay in Tehran after Swiss consular officers made sure that was his choice.
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While in Tonga, Meghan and Harry will attend a reception dinner featuring traditional entertainment at Consular House.
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has said that it was providing consular assistance to Ricketson.
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Sitting across from Consular Officers, they discuss their schooling, their dreams, their finances and their family tree.
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Other experts say that the Supreme Court's decision provides greater discretion to consular officers and border agents.
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At consular events, Ms Loras would be handed coats by guests who mistook her for a maid.
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Following longstanding policy, an American consular officer denied the visa application because of Mr. Shokin's corrupt dealings.
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Granted one consular visit a month, Mr Kovrig may not see his family or hire a lawyer.
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When a U.S. citizen is incarcerated abroad, the U.S. government works to provide all appropriate consular assistance.
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Indian officials later took the man to the Russian embassy in Chennai where he received consular assistance.
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That prompted Thailand's foreign ministry to file a formal letter of protest with consular offices representing Gambia.
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According to lawyers, families and consular officials, the two women believed they were involved in a prank.
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But here's the catch: Consular nonreviewability limits the standing for a court challenge of a visa denial.
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But her visa was rejected because an American consular interviewer decided that her English was too poor.
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The ban, issued days after he took office, surprised Border Patrol agents and State Department consular officials.
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Felix Martinez, a former Mexican consular liaison officer, testified in that case on behalf of the worker.
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Reuters said that a consular official showed them every room, even opening up cupboards and filing cabinets.
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The policy would require migrants to prove to a consular officer that they have met the requirements.
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Public consular operations at the embassy were suspended and future appointments cancelled, it said in a statement.
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Consular officers can already deny B visas to people they believe are birth tourists under existing law.
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What's more, visa fees are dedicated by statute to finance United States consular activities around the world.
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Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed she is a national of the country and is requesting consular access.
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It said consular officials are in close contact with her family, and are working with the Afghan authorities.
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There is a treaty -- the Vienna Convention for Consular Relations -- which both Sweden and the United States signed.
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He said Berlin was demanding consular access to Yucel, and doing all it could to secure his release.
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"Yes I did bring up the consular cases in Egypt with President al-Sisi", he added bit.ly/2uvo9aU.
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It also strongly urges North Korea to provide detained non-citizens assess to communications and to consular officials.
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Interviews are conducted by a US consular officer abroad, during which time digital fingerprint scans are also taken.
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Indonesia has confirmed the second arrested woman was an Indonesian national and is seeking consular access to her.
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The country's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it is providing consular assistance to the woman's family.
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Ottawa now says it will only talk to North Korea about regional security, human rights and consular cases.
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With virtually no consular services available in Havana, Cubans now have to travel abroad to get U.S. visas.
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The use of real estate for any non-diplomatic or consular activities in member states' territories is banned.
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Putin, dismayed by the sanctions, ordered Washington to more than halve its embassy and consular staff in Russia.
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The women, brought here illegally or on visas that have expired, have been offered health and consular services.
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Officials say there will still be consular officials in the embassy available to assist US citizens in Cuba.
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In May, they had their interviews with consular officials, usually among the final steps before a visa decision.
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Mr. Feygin said he received the letter from a person he understood to be a Ukrainian consular official.
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Global Affairs Canada told CityNews that it's providing consular services to the Canadians who've been arrested in Cambodia.
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"Consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information," a Global Affairs Canada spokesperson said.
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The U.S. State Department ordered families of its consular staff in Istanbul to leave Turkey, citing security threats.
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Using surveillance television recordings and GPS signals, the authorities have tracked the movement of consular vehicles on Oct.
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Foreign consular buildings with their mix of architectural styles help keep the streetscape human-scaled and visually perky.
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The State Department has moved its consular services for Cubans to its embassy in Guyana, 2,000 miles away.
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It was entirely in accordance with fundamental international rules that entitle us to give our citizens consular support.
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The U.S. Embassy in Beijing earlier said a chartered plane would pick up its consular staff on Wednesday.
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The sensitive information is contained in the Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), one of the world's largest biometric repositories.
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In the first stage, there were no procedures that could be done on the consulate and consular workers.
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Canadian consular officials in Ankara are working to gather additional information and are providing assistance to the family.
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Make sure to tell the consular officer you're speaking with if you've been the victim of a crime.
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Some 50 Russians were employed in the consular section that processes visas, according to the inspector general's report.
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYSIRAN HAS INDICATED IT IS OPEN TO ALLOWING CANADIAN CONSULAR OFFICIALS INTO IRAN TO HELP FAMILIIES
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White from Switzerland's embassy in Tehran, which handles the consular activities of American citizens for the United States.
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It's not clear how consular officials will determine whether individuals seeking to travel to the U.S. are pregnant.
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"State Department consular officers automatically apply the waiver process in the course of every visa application," Francisco responded.
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Kovrig and Spavor are being held at an undisclosed location in China with limited access to consular services.
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In 2005, Chen Yonglin, a Chinese consular official, sought asylum, promising to divulge details of China's spy network.
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Then, as the consular official's black car pulls up, the gunman raises his arm, fires and runs away.
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Consular officials from Mexico, where a majority of deportees come from, are quick to respond, immigration officials said.
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The lawyer disagreed that the consular official, who was not named in the subpoena, needed to get involved.
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Mexico has been at the forefront of consular innovations, implementing core integral empowerment programs in key areas through its 51 consular representations in the U.S. (the largest network a country has in the world); health, education, civil rights and specialized legal counsel initiatives have been constructed rendering important results and expertise.
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Instead, consular officers — the US State Department employees evaluating visa applications at embassies and consulates abroad — were supposed to consider whether applicants met three criteria: If an applicant met all three, the official text of the travel ban said that the consular officer was supposed to grant them a waiver.
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A second surveillance video appears to show the shooter and the consular official in the moments before the shooting.
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The statement added that he was a Canadian citizen entitled to consular assistance and a permanent Hong Kong resident.
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Freed prisoners also undergo interviews with U.S. consular officials, but otherwise there's not much in the way of debriefing.
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On Wednesday, Russia granted consular access to Whelan two days after U.S. officials requested access, according to multiple outlets.
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Indonesian consular officials in Japan said Aldi was in good health and had since been reunited with his family.
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AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MARISE PAYNE Mr Assange will continue to receive the usual consular support from the Australian Government.
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Hermann and Gueboudj both told Reuters they had spoken to consular staff only once since being detained in 2017.
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"Nazanin is no longer simply a consular case as she has been endangered in a deeper way," he wrote.
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Bishop stressed that while Australia could offer consular support, the matter would be handled by the Malaysian legal system.
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But between the redactions, it's clear that the decision to grant a waiver doesn't exactly belong to consular officers.
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The consular official was later identified as Christopher Ashcraft by a Mexican security official speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Sarah Gardiner resigned from her position as a consular officer at the US embassy in Madrid in October 2017.
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Taylor Sr. said a U.S. consular chief from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq informed him of his son's death.
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Social media examinations are now done rarely by consular officials, according to one of the news service's two sources.
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A U.S. consular officer was shot outside the consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, and officials are looking for the suspect.
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As a consular officer for the Foreign Service, you'll work abroad for two to three years at a time.
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Following this model, Mexico has pushed towards a more visible drive to bring LGBT issues to the consular agenda.
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However, what is essential is a more visible support from the Mexican consular and diplomatic network to LGBT rights.
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Officials tell CNN that consular officials in the embassy will still be available to assist US citizens in Cuba.
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That played well with many New Yorkers fed up with street-parking privileges enjoyed by diplomats and consular employees.
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Because Iran does not recognize dual citizenship, those who are arrested are treated as Iranians and refused consular services.
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"There has been no change in our policy with respect to consular practice or passport issuance," Satterfield told reporters.
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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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The granting of waivers, the order said, is left to the discretion of consular officers responsible for reviewing applications.
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Vyacheslav M. Nekrasov, director of the Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, said Russian consular officials had met Mr. Mohammad.
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Before moving to Arnona in 2010, the American consular section that served Arabs and Jews was in East Jerusalem.
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The guidelines also include a list of exemptions that can be granted at the discretion of a consular officer.
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Consular officials claimed they confiscated the passports of citizens after finding that their printed names were false or fraudulent.
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The person contacted consular officials repeatedly over the following months but was ignored, according to the inspector general's report.
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Iran has granted consular access to 18 Indian crew members of the seized British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
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According to Mr. Ashcraft's LinkedIn account, he has been a consular officer in Guadalajara, the state's capital, since March.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on the cable, drafted by a staffer who works on consular affairs.
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If the reasons provided are not to the "satisfaction" of the consular officer, their visa application could be denied.
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The true figure was "fewer than 60,000," said William Cocks, a spokesman for the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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A spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs said the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
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The hearing lasted a little over an hour, said Harrison Li, who is in touch with the consular officers.
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When a U.S. citizen is incarcerated or detained overseas, the Department of State works to provide all appropriate consular assistance.
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"We are urgently seeking to confirm the crew's whereabouts and welfare, and have offered all appropriate consular assistance," he said.
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He is also only allowed one consular visit a month and is not allowed to see family or loved ones.
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Indonesia's request to obtain consular access to Aishah has not been granted, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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" Earlier Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said they expected consular access to Whelan "within the next few hours.
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Generally, visa applicants are required by US law to be interviewed by a consular officer at a US diplomatic mission.
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Lim has limited contact with the outside world through occasional consular visits and a handful of letters with his family.
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Consular officers are also now allowed to consider past or current use of public benefits – including health and nutrition services.
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Under the previous version of the manual, consular officials were not permitted to consider the use of non-cash benefits.
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They have also disagreed on military strategy in northern Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of local U.S. consular staff.
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Der Spiegel magazine reports that the 16-year-old girl is being held in Iraqi jail while receiving consular assistance.
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Suwara said 38 Poles were on board and added the country's consular services have contacted the families of those injured.
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Last year, it gave U.S. consular officers more discretion to reject visas for people they believe may become public charges.
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Palladino said U.S. consular officials had been scheduled by the Russian foreign affairs ministry to see Whelan on Jan. 17.
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There are various exemptions and waivers in the new ban, including some that give consular officers flexibility to decide cases.
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Whether the embassy will still be issuing such visas remains unclear, given one diplomat will remain in the consular section.
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Russia's foreign ministry said Moscow had expelled a Ukrainian consular worker from St. Petersburg in response, TASS news agency reported.
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Australian consular staff have contacted Chinese authorities to confirm if Australian employees of the global gambling conglomerate are being held.
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A visa, approved by a consular officer in the traveler's home country, does not guarantee admission to the United States.
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"At the consular stage, there's definitely some confusion coming down from the Administration about how rigid to be," he said.
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It's also still unclear if he's had any access to a lawyer or consular assistance as a citizen of Sweden.
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Canadian diplomats have made recent consular visits to them both, it added, declining to provide further details for privacy reasons.
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From Africa to Europe, North Korean diplomats exploit their consular posts to launder money at the expense of international comity.
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Between 50 and 60 officials will be working at the embassy on Monday, including the consular officials, the official said.
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Their citizenship can be documented via a Consular Report of Birth Abroad and they can immediately get a U.S. passport.
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The State Department will develop standards and rules that consular officials will follow in making the determination, the official said.
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The United States does not have an embassy in North Korea, and diplomats from Sweden handle consular services for Americans.
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In October, she is to be posted to the consular affairs section of the United States Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.
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People affected by the change would be required to prove that they have met its requirements to a consular officer.
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Due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound, all public consular operations are suspended until further notice.
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But since these consular interviews involve noncitizens and are taking place on foreign soil, the US Constitution doesn't protect them.
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"Our Embassy has requested consular protection in accordance with the Vienna Convention and in particular visiting rights," the ministry said.
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U.S. officials were allowed consular access to the Americans while they were detained, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.
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In the meantime, the embassy's consular section confirmed with her that a visa interview would take place on February 25.
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Finally, the US citizen must then raise their right hand and swear the oath of renunciation before a consular officer.
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The session, attended by three consular officials from countries where Mr. Whelan holds citizenship, was closed to the news media.
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"I do hope that the exchange that took place will lead to a broader discussion on consular affairs," he said.
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The consular document seen by Reuters was a "certificate of death" issued to record the death of Sergei Poddubny, 36.
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"We are aware of the case and the embassy is providing consular aid," a source at the German foreign ministry said.
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AEDT A spokesperson for the US Embassy has told Mashable it does not comment on individual consular cases, due to privacy.
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She said a British consular official who had visited her son in prison had reported that he was shackled and handcuffed.
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The Palestinian embassy in Washington did not provide consular services, and its lobbying and public-relations work fell on deaf ears.
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According to the State Department, the new embassy is opening in the building that houses current consular operations in southern Jerusalem.
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In Din, the court held that a consular officer generally does not need to cite reasons when rejecting someone's visa application.
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"Today, Canadian consular officials in China visited with Michael Spavor," the ministry said in a statement that provided no further details.
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In its capacity as a "protecting power," Sweden provides consular services for Americans who encounter problems when visiting the isolated dictatorship.
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A spokesperson for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed to CNN that it was providing consular assistance to Bambridge's family.
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A spokesperson for the US State Department said it had requested consular access to Whelan, which it expects to be granted.
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Outraged by the arrests of two local consular staffers by Mr Erdogan's police, America suspended visa services across Turkey in October.
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Canadian diplomats have been unable to get consular access to Celil, who was deported to China while visiting relatives in Uzbekistan.
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Mexican consular authorities have been notified and responded they have been unable to locate Arriago-Santoya's next of kin, ICE said.
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"If you wanted to design a waiver process that was truly fair, consular officers could make those decisions themselves," he said.
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Clarification: This story has been updated to more clearly reflect Sarah Gardiner's experience as a consular officer under the travel ban.
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France's foreign ministry demanded consular access to Adelkhah "without delay" on Monday, though there was no immediate public response from Tehran.
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It included queries about why Russia had been denied consular access to the Skripals and about France's role in the case.
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"Today, Canadian consular officials in China visited with Michael Kovrig," the ministry said in a statement that provided no further details.
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But many American banks will accept taxpayer identification numbers and consular ID cards, which can be obtained irrespective of immigration status.
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The budget is also silent on non-proliferation, counternarcotics, and consular affairs, efforts specifically focused on protecting Americans from foreign threats.
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Bass complained this week that Turkey had given the US no explanation as to why its consular staff members were detained.
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First, the State Department consular officers screen all foreign nationals requesting a visa, employing biometric technologies along with biographic background checks.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch, accompanied by a doctor, went to another hotel to get the men.
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Last week, a US consular staff member was arrested in Istanbul, which prompted the US to freeze non-immigrant visa services.
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The Bureau of Consular Affairs tried to engage a few people who commented at its account, only to draw more criticism.
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"The consular services have been able to meet her several times and are very concerned about her situation," Le Drian said.
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It added that consular officials had visited the Australians in Shanghai, but it gave no details about the remaining 15 employees.
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The Trump administration considered moving State's bureau of Consular Affairs and its bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration to Homeland Security.
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In a statement posted online, the consulate advised visa-holders and those seeking consular services to come back the next day.
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Even the "Administration of Foreign Affairs" account for core diplomatic and consular activities has not be authorized since fiscal year 2003.
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The source on Tuesday said that two others had now been confirmed as German citizens by consular officials who visited them.
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Champ said he has reason to believe Alaradi was tortured in custody and that Canadian consular officials knew of the torture.
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Just miles from some of the clashes, the new embassy was opened Monday in the existing U.S. consular building in Jerusalem.
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The consular officer told her that if she stayed in Yerevan for another two days, he could get her the visa.
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Immediately after Mr. Khashoggi's first visit to the consulate, some of the consular staff left for Saudi Arabia, Mr. Erdogan said.
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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said on Wednesday that all public consular operations were suspended in the wake of the attacks.
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"Not a '10' in the US?" the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs asked, apparently referring to a rating of physical attractiveness.
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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will take over providing consular services to people from the Basra area, the State Department said.
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At one time, American consular officials made money not chiefly from salaries but through trading activities in their country of assignment.
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Giuliani invited Shokin to talk to him in New York, but consular officials who consulted with Ambassador Yovanovitch blocked his visa.
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Consular offices are often involved in cases of unaccompanied migrant youth, especially when children want to return to their countries voluntarily.
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A spokesman for Belgium's prime minister declined to comment on his case, but a consular official was present at his trial.
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Typically, consular officials provide a list of English-speaking attorneys and offer other local and U.S.-based resources, according to CNN.
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Keenan described China's detention of 18 Crown employees, including three Australian nationals, for "gambling crimes" as "essentially a consular matter" for Australia.
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It said the two were now under the care of German consular officials and members of the German federal police in Turkey.
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The US Embassy in Kabul will be closed Sunday, except for emergency consular services, as a precautionary measure, the State Department said.
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Turkish crime scene investigators left the Saudi consulate early on Thursday after searching the building and consular vehicles, a Reuters witness said.
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The United States does not have diplomatic relations with North Korea and is represented in consular matters there by the Swedish embassy.
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The Air New Zealand Ltd flight with 190 evacuees, three consular staff and five New Zealand health officials landed about 6 p.m.
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The bride, 27, is a foreign service officer with the State Department, in the consular affairs section of the embassy in Baghdad.
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The embassy looks after consular affairs for the United States in North Korea because the two countries do not have diplomatic relations.
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The Vietnamese government has denied any use of force against Nguyen and has allowed U.S. consular officials to visit him in detention.
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David said he only learned Paul had four passports when he learned he had asked for consular services from all four countries.
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Honorary consuls are typically U.S. citizens or green card holders who perform consular services outside Washington on behalf of a foreign government.
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The resolution calls for Russia to "provide unrestricted consular access to Paul Whelan while he remains in detention" and ensure due process.
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The little girl continuously asked agents and consular representatives for one phone call to her aunt, who lived in the United States.
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Consular officers confirm it's consistent with their current guidance (except for the inclusion of Chad, which is now off the ban list).
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A U.S. official said the embassy would be located at a provisional site in Jerusalem that now houses a U.S. consular section.
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A brusque German consular attache shouldered his way down platform 32 when the train from Ogdensburg pulled in at 6:45 a.m.
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Canadian diplomats have made recent consular visits to both men, though they have not provided details to the public for privacy reasons.
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That means some full-time diplomats must now leave the country, which will temporarily bring consular and other services to a halt.
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When he is released, his family and consular officials have made arrangements for him to fly to Istanbul for "urgent" medical treatment.
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Russia has repeatedly demanded consular access to Yulia Skripal, saying international law gives it the right to talk to its own nationals.
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U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said the United States has had two consular visits with Whelan, most recently on Feb. 2.
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The file shows that Malik told the consular officer who conducted the May 22, 2014 interview that she had met Farook online.
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The current and former officials said that consular officers who process applications and interview applicants are often junior and overburdened with casework.
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BuzzFeed reports Krivov may have been a Consular Duty Commander, which would have put him in charge of preventing sabotage or espionage.
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The U.S. Embassy in Oslo, about 300 miles away, sent a consular team to Molde to help American citizens who were evacuated.
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The British High Commission in New Delhi said it was providing consular assistance but could not interfere in another country's judicial process.
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The consular section will continue operating at the Jerusalem embassy and will provide visa and passport services to both Israelis and Palestinians.
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Two of the three Australians detained in China had received consular visits and the third would be visited on Thursday, Rankin said.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it "continues to provide consular assistance to three Australian Crown employees detained in Shanghai".
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Americans who do not use their passports to enter China generally cannot obtain consular protection there, according to the State Department's website.
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Toner said U.S. diplomats had not had consular access to the Eldarats at the start of their detention nearly two years ago.
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The $300,000 went toward initial modifications to the former consular building, which occurred before the official opening of the embassy in May.
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A Norwegian forensics team sent to Congo as part of consular assistance to French told the court that Moland had hanged himself.
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The detention of US consular staff in Turkey has also strained relations, along with disagreements over Iran, Venezuela and Middle East policy.
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The officer said that he did not think the victim's status was relevant, but that he had a Mexican consular identification card.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was worried by what happened, adding that Canadian consular officials had reached out to the hospital.
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The detention of U.S. consular staff in Turkey has also strained relations, along with disagreements over Iran, Venezuela and Middle East policy.
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He said consular officials from the U.S. Embassy were providing all possible assistance to Holt, visiting him most recently on Aug. 16.
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She explained that several things can go wrong during consular processing, typically a two-week process that also includes a medical exam.
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The company's engagement and interaction with American citizens abroad is very significant, making them an ideal partner for consular outreach and assistance.
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The Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs issued a travel advisory Wednesday, urging travelers to exercise increased caution over the protests.
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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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If they cannot show that to the satisfaction of the consular office, their visa will be denied, the White House official said.
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But the administration hasn't clarified how a consular officer would have any "reason to believe" that an applicant will imminently give birth.
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According to the cable, a US consular officer can't ask a visa applicant if they are pregnant or intend to become pregnant.
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Iran considers imprisoned Iranian-Americans to be citizens of Iran and does not afford them consular privileges ordinarily granted to foreign citizens.
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One can only renounce US citizenship by signing an oath of renunciation in the presence of a US consular or diplomatic officer.
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Iranian law does not recognize dual citizenship, and Dr. Djalali is not eligible for consular assistance from the Swedish Embassy in Tehran.
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The Mexican government recently diverted 1 billion pesos — about $50 million — to the consular system to protect immigrants in the United States.
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"In both cases they receive consular visits once every month, exactly 30 minutes, with someone there watching all the discussion," he said.
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An Iraqi official previously said Iraqi diplomatic and consular missions would coordinate with U.S. authorities to issue travel documents for the deportees.
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The State Department then decided to retrofit an existing US consular facility in Arnona for use ahead of the permanent embassy's construction.
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"The Prime Minister raised a number of consular cases where we have concerns, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe," a Downing Street official said.
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The consular employees were detained while the Turkish government was undertaking a widespread crackdown in the wake of the failed coup attempt.
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Germany, too, was cool toward Trump's demands, saying it could only take back Islamic State fighters if the suspects had consular access.
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U.S. consular officials requested access to Whelan on Monday — but were only granted access and spoke to him Wednesday, according to NPR.
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But courts have found some holes in consular nonreviewability, especially when the visas in question belong to immediate family of US citizens.
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"Consular officers must disregard the guidance" in the March 15 directive, according to the cable, unless and until the Department has received approval.
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The Swiss government gave its approval to the arrangement at a meeting on Wednesday, with the mandate covering consular services for both nations.
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When considered against the legal requirements, these measures seem designed to provide consular officers more reasons to reject those applying for nonimmigrant visas.
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It added that he was a Canadian citizen enjoying consular protection, as well as the legal rights of a Hong Kong permanent resident.
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The talks would "focus on Sweden's consular responsibilities as a protecting power for the United States, Canada, and Australia" according to the statement.
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Lawyers for some immigrants say consular officers are denying visas even when applicants fulfill legal requirements to prove they will be financially independent.
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On Thursday, Indian External Affairs ministry spokesman Kumar said an Indian delegation had been granted consular access to the 24-member Indian crew.
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One function that is expected to take a hit is consular affairs, a decision that would slow down visa processing for Russian applicants.
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Some lawmakers have asked for the administration's review to include a requirement that consular officers examine social media postings in vetting security risks.
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"The consular services have been able to meet her several times and are very concerned about her situation," Le Drian said on Wednesday.
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After opening the embassy next week, the US will build out additional office space at the consular facility by the end of 2503.
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Mr. Wang's access to United States consular officials during his incarceration may have been hampered by the nature of his entry into China.
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The documents say Oswald spoke "terrible hardly recognizable Russian" during his visit to Mexico City to meet with Soviet and Cuban consular officials.
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She said the family had received a phone call from a Guatemalan consular representative but government officials have not visited or offered assistance.
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Shortly after Meng's arrest, two Canadians were placed in Chinese detention, vanishing into the system without explanation, before later being given consular assistance.
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Because passport and consular services are funded by fees, they essentially pay for themselves and don't rely solely on funding allocated by Congress.
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Whelan was granted US consular access on Wednesday, and Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to Russia, has been in touch with Whelan's family.
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Kirby said Holt would continue to receive regular consular visits from U.S. officials as he awaits trial in the middle of next month.
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The Consular Protection Center of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a photo that showed a worker falling into a pile of paper.
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"Russia will no longer be permitted to use these facilities for diplomatic, consular, or residential purposes," a State Department official said on Friday.
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Officials at the American Embassy in Brazzaville said they also had visited Mr. Pika in detention and were providing "all possible consular assistance."
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Maduro proposed the resumption of consular relations between the countries on Wednesday, as Colombia seeks the extradition of former Colombian congresswoman Aida Merlano.
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Iran, which does not recognize dual citizenship, considers the Namazis to be Iranian citizens, with none of the consular rights afforded to foreigners.
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After opening the embassy in May, the US will build out additional office space at the consular facility by the end of 2019.
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The U.S. Embassy in Beijing earlier said a chartered plane would pick up its consular staff and some private U.S. citizens on Wednesday.
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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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China has also encouraged Taiwanese abroad, even in places where Taiwan has its own representative offices, to seek consular help from Chinese embassies.
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" The American Embassy, which had been under siege by pro-Iranian protesters chanting "Death to America" in recent days, suspended consular operations. "U.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may come up with procedures for consular officers in US embassies abroad to implement the proclamation, Trump wrote.
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Diplomatic cables sent last week from Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to all American embassies instructed consular officials to broadly increase scrutiny.
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Cuban travel to the United States will also diminish as the understaffed U.S. embassy reduces consular services for Cubans seeking a U.S. visa.
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It said consular staff had sent multiple requests to the Chinese authorities seeking Mr. Li's release on humanitarian grounds, but received no response.
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"We congratulate Yulia Skripal on her recovery," the Russian embassy in London said, adding that it had not been granted consular access to her.
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"But in Syria, the German government cannot guarantee legal and consular duties for jailed German citizens due to the armed conflict there," she said.
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The Consulate of Honduras in Houston has also been notified and Honduran consular officials have notified Balderramos-Torres' next of kin, the agency said.
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Agents seized emails, texts and phone records showing that Xu had been communicating with consular officials since at least 2013, according to court records.
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The North Korean ambassador's statement said Malaysia initially told consular officials that Kim died of a heart attack on the way to a hospital.
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U.S. State Department officials supported consular-access legislation introduced in the Senate, but that was not enough to spur Congress to resolve the issue.
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Thiel became a New Zealand citizen at a private consular ceremony in Santa Monica, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) told Mashable.
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Iran doesn't recognize dual citizenship, which means Zaghari-Ratcliffe is only recognized as Iranian, and as such is prevented from accessing British consular assistance.
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Heiko Maas, Germany's foreign minister, landed in Madeira on Thursday evening with a team of doctors, psychologists and consular officials to meet those affected.
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"Indian Embassy in Tehran was granted consular access to meet the 18 Indian crew of the detained British ship Stena Impero," Hamid Baeidinejad said.
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In general, according to law enforcement officials, such passports and consular nominations facilitate travel, open doors and, in some cases, make doing business easier.
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The consular staff of the destination country simply decide whether to grant the visa, and slap a sticker in the passport of successful applicants.
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He said he had written to British foreign minister Alan Duncan seeking assurances Hutchins was receiving consular assistance and would get independent legal representation.
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"We are here mainly to attract Chinese companies who want to invest in Ethiopia and Africa," said Kebede Abera, Ethiopia's consular general to Chongqing.
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Kyaw Naing, an official at the French embassy in Yangon, confirmed that consular officials were aware of the arrest, but declined to provide details.
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"Russia will no longer be permitted to use these facilities for diplomatic, consular or residential purposes," a State Department official told CNN on Friday.
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Separately Ukraine's state security service declared a Russian consular officer in the western city of Lviv as persona non grata, accusing him of spying.
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The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor is seeking a third US consular staff member for questioning and has accused him of hiding in the US consulate.
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"Hundreds of thousands of Iranian intellectuals and scholars exist in Canada; it is important to have a consular section in Canada," Mr. Ghasemi said.
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"We are engaged on the file, which we take very seriously, and we are of course providing consular assistance to the family," Trudeau said.
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"We are prepared to take further appropriate measures if there are additional efforts to impede our diplomatic and consular activities in Russia," he added.
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A Bureau of Consular Affairs official confirmed Mirutenko had died and said the US Embassy in Mexico City is providing assistance to her family.
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The Foreign Ministry said it will provide assistance and consular protection to the father and assume responsibility for the repatriation of the boy's remains.
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Verhofstadt noted that all British citizens as EU citizens currently enjoy benefits such as consular aid, participation in European elections and freedom of travel.
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A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of passport numbers and other pieces of personal information from the website of a Russian consular department.
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"We are providing consular support to the ABC crew and certainly raising this issue at the appropriate level with the Malaysian government," she said.
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Those arrested included 15 men who were sent to confront Mr. Khashoggi, plus one driver and two consular staff members, a Saudi official said.
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"All I know is that he is alive and they were putting in a request for a consular visit by the Swiss," she said.
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The security forces also refused my request to meet the three Americans whom they still detain, one for two years now, without consular access.
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Because the US and Iran do not have diplomatic relations, the Swiss provide consular services to Wang and report back to the State Department.
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Consular officers have reported that local documents are often unreliable for confirming the identity of applicants and searching for red flags in their backgrounds.
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The man with a shaved head, a hangdog face and arm tattoos, has mostly stayed silent, meeting only consular officers from the Russian Embassy.
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Following the US' last consular visit with Whelan, the spokesperson for the US Embassy in Moscow expressed concern at Russia's obstruction of the waiver.
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The changes are the result of a year-long review process, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch told reporters last month.
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Eduardo Almaguer, the attorney general for Jalisco, told the local news media that the consular employee worked in the visa section of the consulate.
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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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The new staffing levels at the embassies in Washington and Havana, Mr. Rodríguez said, will leave each consular section staffed by just one officer.
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"They put words in my mouth," Ms. Phan-Gillis told a visiting American consular officer, according to an earlier account given by Mr. Gillis.
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The Singapore foreign ministry has four North Korean officials and their spouses in its list of diplomatic and consular staff as of June 2018.
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And consular nonreviewability hasn't stopped any of the previous lawsuits against the travel ban from going forward, even when judges ultimately upheld the ban.
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This is a particular problem, given the fact that the consular officer has total discretion and those whose applications are denied cannot appeal the decision.
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The Mexican government said it "profoundly laments" Trump's decision to end DACA and pledged to strengthen efforts to guarantee consular protections for affected Mexican citizens.
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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that Ricketson can expect further consular assistance and that the government had previously approached Cambodia directly about the case.
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For country-specific information about visas, immunizations, and other legal formalities for Americans moving abroad, check out this resource from the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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"Consular services are currently limited in Mosul," he said, referring to the former ISIS stronghold in Iraq that fell to government forces on July 9.
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Sweden's foreign minister said the decision to prevent Mr Gui reaching Beijing in January was a "brutal intervention" contravening "basic international rules on consular support".
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Friedman, who helped spearhead May's relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to a different converted consular building in south Jerusalem, was not present.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iran granted India consular access to 18 Indian crew members of the detailed British vessel Stena Impero, the Iranian ambassador to Britain said.
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"Australia continues to have consular access and have again asked that (Yang) be granted immediate access to his lawyers," the Australian foreign ministry spokesperson said.
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The move comes as Iran granted consular access to 18 Indian crew members of a separate vessel, the seized British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
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"Indian Embassy in Tehran was granted consular access to meet the 18 Indian crew of the detained British ship Stena Impero," Baeidinejad said on Twitter.
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A consular official told CNN that some family members have already traveled to California, but they have no idea when the bodies may be recovered.
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The mandate signed on Friday primarily provides for Switzerland to represent the United States in terms of consular services in Venezuela, the Swiss government said.
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" In an official statement, the ministry said it had reasons to believe the arrest was a "clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
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"We have also been in direct periodic contact with the Syrian government regarding consular issues in general and American citizens detained in Syria," Toner said.
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"Fewer than 60,000 individuals' visas were provisionally revoked to comply with the executive order," said Will Cocks, spokesman for the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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"Sweden has acted in accordance with the agreement on providing consular services that exists with Australia and in close cooperation with Australian authorities," it added.
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"We are in contact with the local authorities after a British national was detained in Kyrgyzstan and are ready to provide consular assistance," they said.
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Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told CNN that Paul Whelan, who was detained on Friday, was granted consular access about 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
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Once again, I felt the door closing on us, along with my "romantic" dream of being married inside the militarized walls of the consular complex.
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In a series of cables sent to U.S. consular officers around the world and obtained by Reuters, Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
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"Chinese authorities know full well, our accredited consular personnel are just doing their jobs, just like diplomats from every other country," Ortagus added in tweet.
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The Canadian government told Reuters that it has been following the case for several years and providing consular assistance, but could not provide further details.
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The two countries also halted issuing visas for months after locally hired U.S. consular staff were detained on suspicion of links to alleged coup plotters.
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The consular official, who had informed him that the paperwork had come through, had told him to be at the Saudi consulate at 1 p.m.
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The consular staff, he assured them, "are just ordinary Saudis, and the ordinary Saudis are good people," recalled one of his lunch companions, Azzam Tamimi.
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The final two cases of 12 were heard Monday in the Iraqi capital in an open courtroom and in the presence of French consular officials.
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According to the news weekly Le Point, Turkish "consular structures" oversee more than 250 mosques and about 200 official imams seconded by Turkey to France.
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Hong Kong (CNN)A United Kingdom consular worker who was detained in China for 15 days has returned to Hong Kong, according to his family.
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According to the official on the call and the diplomatic cable, consular officers were told they can't directly ask a woman if they are pregnant.
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The State Department said it had chartered a flight to take consular staff members and other American citizens to San Francisco from Wuhan on Tuesday.
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Time awaiting interview scheduling, time spent doing background checks, and time the consular officer spends making a final decision, among other time sinks, isn't counted.
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The U.S. government's politicized response to the symptoms, expelling Cuban diplomats during an ongoing investigation and halting consular services in Havana, further muddies the waters.
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The boy's brother and Guatemalan consular officials visited him while he was in hospital and his family in Guatemala was regularly advised of his condition.
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"Even after these closures, Russia will still maintain more diplomatic and consular annexes in the United States than we have in Russia," the official said.
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"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss, and we are providing them all appropriate consular assistance," the State Department official said.
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"He has only received notes that we have sent by way of his lawyers, or verbal communications from consular visits," one of the sources says.
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The new process will involve consular officers first applying traditional screening to an applicant and then determining whether they also qualify under the new guidance.
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If they are selected in the random process, they'll then go through the typical visa issuance steps, including a consular interview and filling in paperwork.
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The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that all Irish citizens who were in distress or danger overseas were entitled to consular help.
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Over many years consular officers, immigration inspectors, and immigration adjudicators become familiar with patterns of conduct that criminals and terrorists use to perpetrate immigration fraud.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday the Chinese government had reported the case to the U.S. side in accordance with consular agreements.
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Saudi consular officials confronted the sisters at Hong Kong airport and lied in an attempt to get them to board the flight, the sisters said.
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It also includes a potentially huge exception for everyone else: consular officials are empowered to permit new applicants to travel immediately on case by case.
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Attorneys representing applicants abroad who were turned down for visas say consular officials have not clearly explained why their clients did not qualify for waivers.
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But even though it calls for the hiring of consular fellows, that won't do much, at least for a long while, to reduce wait times.
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Russia continues to hold US citizens, including Paul Whelan and Michael Calvey, in detention, where they have been denied adequate consular services, according to US officials.
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Johan Bueso Montecinos was on a jet bound for San Pedro Sulas from the United States, after Honduran consular officials and U.S. authorities worked out arrangements.
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If Iran lets Namazi leave, O'Brien wrote that the US would enter into a dialogue on consular affairs, which includes potential prisoners releases in both directions.
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"Chinese authorities know full well, our accredited consular personnel are just doing their jobs, just like diplomats from every other country," Ortagus added in a tweet.
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Iran does not routinely announce arrests or charges and does not recognize dual nationals, whose rights to consular assistance are enshrined in the U.N. Vienna Convention.
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The German foreign ministry said it had not yet been granted consular access to Yucel or five other Germans arrested since the July 15 coup attempt.
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Relations sank to a new low with the arrest of a second U.S. consular worker earlier this month over alleged links to last year's coup attempt.
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Last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent four cables to U.S. embassies and consular officials demanding scrutiny be tightened up, as originally reported by Reuters.
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Mexico pressed U.S. officials and Congress to follow the international court's directive and require states to review death sentences where people had been denied consular access.
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He then appealed to the State Department's Bureau of Public Affairs to issue an ALDAC, or formal message to "All Diplomatic and Consular Posts," clarifying matters.
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On March 17th Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, gave broad instructions for consular officials to identify "populations warranting increased scrutiny" and adjust visa-processing accordingly.
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"They don't really give you an explanation of why they're not giving it to you, the consular officers are very concise in that sense," he said.
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While America lacks formal diplomatic relations with North Korea, messages are conveyed through the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which provides a consular service for US citizens.
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The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the Sydney Morning Herald that it was providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian woman.
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"Such prosecutions can stifle the exercise of the basic freedoms enshrined in the Basic Law," said a U.S. consular spokesman, referring to the city's mini constitution.
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It may appear that the current row began with Topuz, but the employee is actually the second US consular staff member to be arrested this year.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Two German citizens have been detained in Hong Kong and are receiving consular support, a source at the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
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The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office said in a statement published by Anadolu on Monday that a third US consular staff member was being sought for questioning.
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A representative for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Insider in a statement that it was "providing consular assistance" to King's and Firkin's families.
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Nor did she elaborate on what she described as a conversation about information-sharing between the US and Honduras about providing consular services for unaccompanied children.
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The Foreign Ministry said it will provide all assistance and consular protection to the boy's father and assume responsibility for the repatriation of the boy's remains.
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Consular services, including the issuing of visas to Cubans traveling to the US and American citizen's services department, have been closed as repairs were being made.
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It said it had asked to visit Calvey multiple times, but had not been granted access, something it said flouted consular rules between the two countries.
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At least one State Department employee working in Washington has also tested positive, according to a notice from the Bureau of Consular Affairs obtained by POLITICO.
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Located on the grounds of the consular compound, it is now owned by the United States and leased out as housing for elderly Russian-speaking immigrants.
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Mr. Robinson also pressed for United States consular access to Mr. Holt, a 25-year-old Utah man whose mother recently voiced concerns about his health.
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One proposed bill would restrict loans from international financial institutions to Turkey until Ankara stops the "arbitrary arrest and detention" of U.S. citizens and consular staff.
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"Matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over 5 months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access," she said.
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It also underscored the direction given to consular officers to assess waiver applications while addressing any public safety concerns and broader implications for the national interest.
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As the news of the capture spread, a gathering of Mexican ambassadors and consular officials broke into a spontaneous rendition of Mexico's national anthem in celebration.
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Jonas Stewart, a spokesman for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, said embassy personnel could not comment on consular assistance to individuals because of privacy laws.
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Canadian consular officials are providing assistance to the family of the latest detainee, a spokesman for Global Affairs Canada, the country's foreign ministry, said on Wednesday.
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The embassy that is opening on Monday, in what was up to now the consular services section of the United States Consulate General, will be temporary.
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Turkey's relations with the United States have worsened over the detention of the American pastor Andrew Brunson and a dozen other Turkish-Americans and consular employees.
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In cases where the detainee possesses both Saudi and United States citizenship, the host government often does not recognize United States citizenship and denies consular access.
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"This is a direct result of the March 17 cable on heightened vetting," said Liam Schwartz, an immigration and consular lawyer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Lawyers for the state repeated that argument in court and added that the women did not have the right to Dutch consular assistance in the camps.
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American consular officials sat quietly in the largely deserted courtroom at Wadi Natroun prison, 60 miles from central Cairo, as Mr. Etiwy's sentence was read out.
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The United States does not have formal diplomatic ties with North Korea, and the embassy looks after consular affairs in the North on behalf of Washington.
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Because the US and Iran do not have diplomatic relations, the Swiss government had provided consular services to Wang and reported back to the State Department.
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The United States has chartered a flight to repatriate consular staff members and other American citizens today from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus originated.
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A consular office just west of the Old City is much smaller, while an open plot that Israel leases to the Americans has never been developed.
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Kent argued that a top consular official should also share information because he'd spoken with Giuliani about a dispute over a visa for a prominent Ukrainian.
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Strains in ties already extend beyond the F-35 to include conflicting strategy in Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of U.S. consular staff in Turkey.
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Russia also continues to hold US citizens, including Paul Whelan and Michael Calvey, in detention, where they have been denied adequate consular services, according to US officials.
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Canada's government said this week it had been following the case for several years and providing consular assistance, but could provide no other details, citing privacy concerns.
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Alcocer, the former Mexican deputy foreign minister, confirmed the issue of consular access was raised during negotiations on other cross-border issues like the extradition of criminals.
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"Matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over 5 months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access," his wife said.
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"We were overwhelmed then, and we are not going to be overwhelmed again," said Michele Bond, the assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, who oversees passports.
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Two former consular officials have said that it's all a sham, and that the Trump administration has set the standards so high that waivers are practically unobtainable.
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"Multiple senior members of the Panamanian government have been working closely, throughout the weekend, along with the Ambassador, U.S. consular officials, and the FBI," the statement reads.
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While traditionally a senior political officer or the senior consular officer would be third in command, this role is now often filled by the USAID mission director.
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The envoy, Carlos Vecchio, said the opposition had gained control of two buildings belonging to Venezuela's defense ministry in Washington and one consular building in New York.
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Honduras said in a statement that it would push U.S. Congress to reconsider Trump's move, and offer consular support for more than 18,500 Hondurans protected by DACA.
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But before she could board her flight, she was stopped by an U.S. consular officer who said her visa was no longer valid because of Trump's order.
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This reveals the most troubling element of the upcoming travel ban: It leaves a massive discretionary vacuum that will be filled by consular officers and CBP agents.
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CBP inspectors and consular officials partner with the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to utilize the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment on known and suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
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Russia's Consular General in Varna, Vladimir Klimanov, told Russian state news agency TASS on Friday that Russian authorities learned about Alexander Zh.'s arrest from his wife.
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"I remain concerned by reports that the foreign detainees have not received due legal process and may be held in inhumane conditions without consular access," he said.
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ETIAS and ESTA don't require consular interviews nor the same degree of background checks as regular visas, but do require a payment and registration prior to travel.
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Britain has not yet been granted consular access to Lee, despite formal requests to China, a representative of the British consulate in Hong Kong said on Monday.
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"All I know is that he is alive and they were putting in a request for a consular visit by the Swiss," Joanne White told the newspaper.
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The cuts will affect embassy and consular operations, but allowing the United States to choose who leaves means a smaller impact than expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia.
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"When Australians get into trouble overseas, we always provide consular support and that is precisely what is happening there now," Turnbull said on Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio.
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Guatemala's Foreign Ministry said its consul in Phoenix was seeking to interview the boy's father, to whom it pledged to give all necessary consular assistance and protection.
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Deputy Head of Mission Zamshari Sahaharan at the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta said they were encouraging all Malaysian who knew tourists in Lombok to contact consular officials.
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In a telephone interview, Mr. Bergman said he could not elaborate on what was discussed concerning Mr. Warmbier, who has not received any consular visits since March.
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Global Affairs Canada, a government department that manages diplomatic and consular relations, "does not publicly comment on operational security issues," Mr. Austen of the Foreign Ministry said.
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Strains in their ties already extend beyond the F-35 to include conflicting strategy in Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of U.S. consular staff in Turkey.
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He said Mr. White, who has been incarcerated in the northeast city of Mashhad since his arrest eight months ago, has twice been granted Swiss consular visits.
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" A State Department official who declined to speak for attribution said: "We routinely request consular access to all American citizens that have been detained in Saudi Arabia.
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Neither his family nor American consular officials were permitted to attend most of the proceeding, and his lawyers at the time did little to challenge the prosecution.
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A spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said that consular officials would continue to aid the Australians and their families until they were released.
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India has claimed that Mr. Jadhav was not permitted to meet with consular officials during a rapid trial and sentencing, and that Pakistan violated the Vienna Convention.
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It puts consular officers in a "very awkward position of having to decide whether or not they believe someone is imminently going to give birth," she said.
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China chartered four helicopters to evacuate about 20113 nationals from Kaikoura, mostly elderly and children, late on Monday, said Liu Lian, a Chinese consular official in Christchurch.
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"Claims of terrorist links are absurd," the German foreign ministry said in a statement demanding consular access to its citizen and the release of all the activists.
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Ms. Moore-Gilbert and her family have been receiving consular assistance from the Australian authorities, and the British Foreign Office is working in cooperation with the Australians.
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The Australian government said it was providing consular assistance to the families of those detained, and it reminded travelers that they risk arbitrary detention when visiting Iran.
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The final rule says consular officers must scrutinize female travelers to determine whether they might be pregnant, but does not explain how officers will make such determinations.
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While Kovrig and Spavor have been held in a Chinese jail and allowed consular access, the Huawei executive is under house arrest in her home in Vancouver.
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"When a US citizen is missing or passes away overseas, we engage with local officials at multiple levels and provide all appropriate consular assistance," the spokesperson said.
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The U.S. Consular Agency in Playa del Carmen in the state of in Quintana Roo will be closed "until further notice," the embassy said in it alert.
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The Canadian High Commission in New Delhi told CNN that it was aware of Cotten's death and had "provided consular assistance," but declined to reveal further details.
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"The emerging circumstances of Jamal Khashoggi's death are deeply troubling, including the shocking violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations ...," Mogherini said in a statement.
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German officials say they have not had full consular access to arrested German activist Peter Steudtner, who was accused of terrorism - an allegation Berlin has dismissed as absurd.
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"We were overwhelmed then, and we are not going to be overwhelmed again," Michele Bond, the assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, told The New York Times.
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Disputes over strategy in Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of U.S. consular staff remain unresolved, and the issue of missile defense threatens to widen the rift again.
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If DHS publishes a new rule, the State Department will decide then whether to change its guidance, said Ashley Garrigus, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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Kovrig is officially an employee of Global Affairs Canada, which manages Canada's diplomatic and consular relations, but is on leave from the department to work at Crisis Group.
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"We remain troubled by the way our diplomatic and consular staff have been treated over the past two years," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters this week.
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The boy's brother and Guatemalan consular officials visited him while he was in hospital and his family in Guatemala was regularly advised of his condition, the statement said.
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"Consular officials in Shanghai are making arrangements to visit the Australians to offer appropriate assistance, all of whom have legal representation provided by their employer," the statement said.
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As any consular officer would tell you, liaising and advocating on behalf of US citizens in legal trouble in foreign countries is a big part of the job.
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Gui remains in custody somewhere in China, and members of his family said they have been denied access to him, as have Swedish consular officials and his attorneys.
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Disputes over strategy in Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of U.S. consular staff remain unresolved, and the issue of missile defence threatens to widen the rift again.
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The details: According to Israeli officials, in the first phase an "interim embassy" will be opened at the consular annex in West Jerusalem that handles visas and passports.
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was "providing consular assistance to an Australian man detained in Bali" in response to emailed questions on the arrest.
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"We will categorically reject the result of the post mortem ... " He said Kim Jong Nam had a diplomatic passport and was under the consular protection of North Korea.
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BERLIN, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Two German citizens have been detained in Hong Kong and are receiving consular support, a source at the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
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India also expressed displeasure over the lack of consular access to a former Indian Navy officer arrested earlier this year and accused by Pakistan of being a spy.
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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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"When Australians get into trouble overseas, we always provide consular support, and that is precisely what is happening there now," he said on a radio program on Tuesday.
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And Mr. Gillis said that his wife has told an American consular official who visited her in July that she had been subjected to harsh and unrelenting interrogation.
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Trump reluctantly signed off on new sanctions against Russia in August, prompting Putin to cut U.S. embassy and consular staff in Moscow by more than half in retaliation.
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" The ministry added that Saudi consular officials were in "constant contact with her family" and she would be "deported to the State of Kuwait where her family live.
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He said that a consular officer from Guangzhou last visited her on June 20 and that the consulate there had had diplomats visit her monthly since her detention.
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According to the ABC, Yang has been detained without access to his family or lawyers since January, but he has been visited by Australian consular staff several times.
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Her husband made a public plea this week to President Donald Trump and to consular officials to expedite his wife's visa application so she could see her son.
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European governments could open consular outposts in countries like Turkey and Libya which could grant humanitarian visas to people with a plausible asylum claim, the think-tank said.
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"Foreign ministry sites are not always informed in a timely manner about the detention of German citizens, and access for consular services is not always ensured," it added.
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Washington this month stopped issuing visas at its missions in Turkey, citing safety concerns for its staff following the arrest of two U.S. consular staff, both Turkish nationals.
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It will be located in the building that houses current consular operations in Jerusalem, and they plan to relocate to a separate annex by the end of 2019.
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Turkey's Foreign Ministry said the arrested individual was not on the official list of registered personnel for the U.S. consulate and therefore had no diplomatic or consular immunity.
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As a consular officer, I often saw the Department of Homeland Security approve petitions for "aliens of extraordinary ability" (a type of merit green card) with dubious credentials.
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The Saudis have announced 18 arrests in connection with the investigation, and the official said those arrests included the 15-member team, two consular workers and a driver.
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Federica Mogherini, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the disclosures so far about Mr. Khashoggi's death a "shocking violation" of international conventions and norms of consular behavior.
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His administration announced that it would formally open the Jerusalem embassy in May to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel's independence by redesignating an existing consular facility.
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The consular section there, which opened in 2010, is the newest and most secure United States facility in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to a State Department official.
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As long as they're subjective, they are subject either to the whims of individual consular officials or to the rules of thumb offered from the top — the profiles.
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A U.S. State Department representative said Russia had notified it that a U.S. citizen had been detained and it expected Moscow to provide consular access to see him.
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"No one has taken day off in two months," one State Department official said of the consular team, which deals with visa issues, passports and Americans traveling overseas.
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American diplomats were ordered out of Venezuela in mid-March and a protecting power agreement with Switzerland is still not operational, so the men are without consular access.
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While he did not rule out evacuations, he did not indicate there were any planned, adding that consular requests would be evaluated on a case by case basis.
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F.B.I. investigators suspected that the bearded consular official might be a 32-year-old diplomat named Fahad al-Thumairy, who also served as an imam at the mosque.
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canadians who require emergency consular assistance in Haiti may contact the emergency watch and response center, as the Canadian Embassy was closed.
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More likely, the Trump administration is of multiple minds on many subjects and is so poorly staffed at the consular level that the United States is diplomatically rudderless.
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To obtain a card, an applicant can, for example, use a valid foreign passport or a consular identification, along with a utility bill that verifies a city address.
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The American Institute in Taiwan issues visas and provides other basic consular services, and Taiwan has an equivalent institution with offices in several cities in the United States.
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Calls for access to detained US and South Korean citizens Quintana also requested consular access for three US citizens and six South Koreans currently imprisoned in North Korea.
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The strains on ties between Washington and Ankara already extend beyond the F-35 to include strategy in Syria, Iran sanctions and the detention of U.S. consular staff.
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On December 31, 2019, the Embassy suspended public consular services, until further notice, as a result of damage done by Iranian-backed terrorist attacks on the Embassy compound.
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More than 100 Iranian lawmakers have since expressed support to downgrade the country&aposs relationship from an ambassador to consular level, the local Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday.
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Part of the challenge is that in Iran's view, any American of Iranian descent it incarcerates is an Iranian citizen, not entitled to consular privileges given to foreigners.
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"Whenever there is a case, we request consular access and provide whatever support we can to the victims," said the official, who did not want to be named.
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South Korea's Foreign Ministry sent a consul from Atlanta to the scene to determine the status of the rescue and provide consular assistance to those who were rescued.
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ISTANBUL — A Turkish court ordered the release of an American consular employee on Wednesday after almost two years in jail, while also convicting him of terror-related charges.
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The United States Consulate in Guangzhou, in southern China, has handled Ms. Phan-Gillis's consular needs while she has been held in Nanning, 315 miles to the west.
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Trump opted not to attend the ceremony in which a U.S. consular building was repurposed into an embassy, pending the construction of a new facility, probably years away.
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El Salvador insisted parents had the right to know where their children were and asked that consular officials be "speedily" notified of where the children have been taken.
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Freeland told reporters on Friday that relationship with China is important and valued, and Canada's ambassador in Beijing has assured Chinese that consular access will be provided to Meng.
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Iran does not recognize dual nationality and does not routinely announce arrests or charges of dual nationals, whose rights to consular assistance are enshrined in the U.N. Vienna Convention.
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For one thing, because S.'s wife is not an Australian citizen, she's not entitled to consular assistance, and it's unclear how their son can travel without his mother.
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The procedures allow consular officials to request 15 years worth of personal information — including applicants' previous addresses, employment history, and travel records — in addition to the social media data.
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Such a move effectively denies the dual citizens of Canada's consular protection and is a big setback for the 300,000 dual Canadian-Chinese citizens in Hong Kong, Burton noted.
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It was only after multiple phone conversations with his wife, his sister in Iran and an Iranian consular official in the United States that he reluctantly changed his mind.
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The State Department has been measured in speaking about the case, even while acknowledging consular officials were denied access to the Eldarats for the first year of their detention.
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The final March 17 cable seen by Reuters leaves in place an instruction that consular chiefs in each diplomatic mission convene working groups of law enforcement and intelligence officials.
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"We do not want to risk making the work on other consular cases more difficult, or jeopardize the trust and confidence on which our cooperation was based," she said.
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What we're hearing: The staff of the consular annex in Jerusalem were notified today that starting May 14, they will become the staff of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
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"We are hopeful within the next hours we will get consular access to see him and get a chance to learn more," Pompeo said, according to the Daily Mail.
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The United States has withdrawn a majority of its diplomats from the city and expelled 17 Cubans from their Washington embassy, all but ending consular services and most contact.
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The man under questioning, Fahad al-Thumairy, had been a Saudi consular official based in Los Angeles and the imam of a mosque visited by two of the hijackers.
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However, according to the Washington Post, the State Department's foreign affairs manual is instructing consular officials to consider the use of public benefits in deciding whether to issue visas.
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When the head of a consular representation incorporates gender identity and sexual orientation as part of its agenda, it sends a message of awareness and a willingness to engage.
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Separately, Jubeir said Switzerland would handle Saudi Arabia's consular affairs in Iran and facilitate Iranian pilgrims coming to the kingdom, following Riyadh's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.
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Significant symbolism The institute "undertakes a wide range of activities representing US interests, including commercial services, agricultural sales, consular services, and cultural exchanges," according to the US State Department.
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Indian authorities say they learned of his arrest through a press release nearly three weeks later and were refused consular access multiple times, in violation of the Vienna Convention.
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"The French embassy in Iraq, in its role as provider of consular protection, is taking the necessary steps to convey its position to the Iraq authorities," the statement added.
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"... more than a million people ... go to Thailand every year where our superb consular services deal with some of the things that they get up to there," said Johnson.
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The US government is planning to spend $21 million for a second phase of renovations that includes building an addition to the old consular building to accommodate embassy staff.
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It would not have barred Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman who arrived in the United States on a so-called "fiancée visa" after extensive screening from American consular officials.
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On Wednesday night, the Metropolitan Police released a statement attributed to Ms. Skripal, turning down a Russian offer of consular assistance, adding another irritant to worsening relations with Moscow.
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In an attempt to ensure wait times for interviews are "not unduly affected," the order calls for the hiring of more consular fellows to work in U.S. embassies abroad.
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A foreign workforce As efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic limit consular services, US farmers are worried they won't be able to hire the international workers they rely on.
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This week, the State Department issued a travel advisory warning Americans not to travel to Venezuela, and said that the United States would not be providing any consular services.
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According to a Mexican Embassy spokesman, the world's largest single-country consular network has most of its employees working from home and is only providing emergency services as needed.
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The police from Guangzhou, the southern provincial capital where the father worked, have taken Ms. Han, 51, to a hotel several times to meet with an American consular officer.
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According to the British government, Yulia Skripal rejected an offer of Russian consular assistance, although she has not been heard from or seen since her release from the hospital.
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