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Office of Foreign Missions
Regional Offices
Houston, TX
  

Houston, TX

Houston Skyline Photo courtesy of the Greater Houston Visitors and Convention Bureau

The Office of Foreign Missions' Houston Regional Office opened September 2003  and is the newest of OFM's regional network of offices. OFM Houston provides services and liaison to foreign officials and honorary consuls who are accredited by the U.S. Department of State to work in the southwestern and central states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.

OFM regional offices enforce the Foreign Missions Act (22 USC 4301-4316) as well as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and work extensively with local, state, and federal government agencies in matters affecting foreign consular representation, immunities and privileges, and consular notification by police agencies in the event of arrest, detention, or death of foreign nationals.

The Houston Regional Office has a range of programs for the foreign career consular community, including diplomatic tax exemptions, diplomatic customs clearance, as well as diplomatic motor vehicle registration and drivers licensing.

Foreign mission officials and employees and other interested parties may contact the Houston Regional Office from 8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday except federal holidays.

Office of Foreign Missions
Alliance Tower, Suite 906
8701 S Gessner Road 
Houston, TX 77074

Phone: (713) 272-2865
Fax: (713) 272-2866

Email: OFMHOCustomerService@state.gov

  
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