Embassy of the United States, Mexico City

Embassy of the United States, Mexico City
Native name Spanish: Embajada de los Estados Unidos, México D.F.
Chancery Building
Location	Paseo de la Reforma 305 Mexico City, Mexico
Coordinates	19°26′00″N 99°08′00″W / 19.433333°N 99.133333°W / 19.433333; -99.133333Coordinates: 19°26′00″N 99°08′00″W / 19.433333°N 99.133333°W / 19.433333; -99.133333
Opened	1964 (1964)[1]
Ambassador	Roberta S. Jacobson (since May 5, 2016)
Location of Embassy of the United States, Mexico City in Mexico

The Embassy of the United States of America in Mexico City is the diplomatic mission of United States of America to the United Mexican States. The embassy's chancery is situated on the Paseo de la Reforma, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City. The current United States Ambassador to Mexico is Roberta S. Jacobson.

History

The current chancery building began in 1960 and was completed in 1964 at a cost of $5 million USD.^[2] At the time, it was the second largest US embassy building in the world.^[2]

Future

In 2011, the United States Department of State announced plans to build a new US embassy in the Nuevo Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City. Estimated price of the new embassy is $763 million USD.^[3]

Embassy sections

The Embassy exercises a number of functions in its representation to the Government of Mexico, including political, administrative, economic, public diplomacy, and consular affairs, that are managed under the Ambassador by counselors from the U.S. Department of State.^[4]

• Consular Section
  • American Citizen Services
  • Visa Services
• Economic Section
• Defense Attaché
• Public Affairs
• Political Section
• Management Section
• Other U.S. Government Agencies
  • American Battle Monuments Commission
  • Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • Foreign Agricultural Service
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Office of Foreign Assets Control
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
  • United States Commercial Service
  • United States Department of Defense
  • United States Department of Justice
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • United States Marshals Service
  • United States Peace Corps

Consulates

The United States maintains consulates general in Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Matamoros, Mérida, Monterrey, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo and Tijuana^[5] and consular agencies in Acapulco, Los Cabos, Cancún, Mazatlán, Oaxaca City, Piedras Negras, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta and San Miguel de Allende.

See also

• American immigration to Mexico
• Embassy of Mexico, Washington, D.C.
• Mexico–United States relations

References

External links

• Embassy Home Page

Diplomatic missions in Mexico
Americas	Canada Colombia United States
Asia	Taiwan
Europe	Sweden United Kingdom

Diplomatic missions of the United States
Embassies shown in bold. Consulates-General 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	Caracas Curaçao Havana Mexico City 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 Lahore Manama Manila Mumbai New Delhi Peshawar Rangoon (Yangon) Seoul Shanghai Shenyang Tel Aviv Tokyo Ulaanbaatar Wuhan Yerevan‡
Europe	Athens Berlin Bern Bremen Chişinău Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Hamburg Istanbul‡ 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) European Union (Brussels) 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 (1977–2015) 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 Consulates-General 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.