Consulate General of the United States, Dubai

The Consulate General of the United States, Dubai is a United States diplomatic mission in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Consulate-General serves Dubai and the five northern Emirates, comprising Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah.^[2] The incumbent US Consul-General is Rob Waller, who assumed responsibilities in July 2012.^[1]

History

The United States opened an embassy branch office in Dubai on 1 December 1976, located in Al Futtaim Building on the Creek Road in Deira. The branch office was moved to the Dubai World Trade Centre in 1981, located on Sheikh Zayed Road. On 1 December 1985, the embassy branch office was designated as a Consulate-General. The US Consulate-General is now hosted in the New Consulate Compound (NCC), a six-acre site in Bur Dubai located adjacent to the Dubai Creek, inaugurated in 2011.^[2]

See also

• United Arab Emirates–United States relations
• Embassy of the United States, Abu Dhabi
• List of diplomatic missions of the United States
• List of diplomatic missions in Dubai

References

External links

• Consulate General of the United States, Dubai

Diplomatic missions of the United States Embassies shown in bold. Consulate-Generals shown in italics. A full list can be found at List of diplomatic missions of the United States. Africa Dar es Salaam Juba Malabo Nairobi Americas Curaçao Havana Ottawa Asia Abu Dhabi Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Chengdu Chennai Dhaka Dubai Guangzhou Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong1 Hyderabad Islamabad Jakarta Jerusalem1 Kabul Karachi Kolkata Manama Manila Mumbai Rangoon (Yangon) Seoul Shanghai Shenyang Tel Aviv Tokyo Wuhan Yerevan‡ Europe Athens Berlin Bern Bremen Chişinău Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Hamburg London Kyiv Moscow Munich Oslo Paris Prague Rome Sarajevo Tallinn Tbilisi‡ The Hague Thessaloniki Tirana Vatican (Rome) Vienna Oceania Canberra Wellington Organizations African Union (Addis Ababa) American Institute in Taiwan2 (Taipei, Kaohsiung-branch office, Washington-headquarters) Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (Vienna) United Nations United States Mission to the United Nations (New York) Rome Former Benghazi (1950-66, 2012) Havana (1902/23-1961) Houston (1836-46) Liverpool (1790-1962) London (1938-60) Mogadishu (1960-91) Saigon (1952-75) Tangier (1821-1956) Tehran (1951-79) ‡ Missions which are located in countries or cities that may be considered a part of more than one continent. 1 Consulate Generals which function as an embassy (ie. consul reports to State Department, not the respective country's ambassador) 2 The American Institute in Taiwan is ostensibly a public, non-profit organization to promote US-Taiwanese relations, but through State Department staffing & assistance, functions as an informal US diplomatic mission.