United States: embassies, consulates & entry rules
- foreign missions here
- 592
- Consulates
- 398
- missions abroad
- 310
- Visa-free / Visa on arrival
- 4
Live & travel in United States
Monthly budget
$4,500/mo
Prices vs USA: 100%
US travel advisory
No advisory published
Homicides / 100k: 5.8
Internet access
95%
of people online
Air quality
7
PM2.5 (µg/m³)
Official languages
Spanish, Chamorro, Samoan
Emergency
911
Plug types
NEMA 5-15, NEMA 1-15
Calling code
+1
Estimate for a remote worker (rent + living) from World Bank price levels. Capitals can be higher.
3.5
/ 5
embassly score
Sources: World Bank · NASA · U.S. State Dept
- Cost1.3
- Safety3.5
- Internet access5.0
- Air quality4.5
- Climate3.2
SOS · United States911Restaurants, cafés and dishes in United StatesDelmonico's · Katz's Delicatessen · Hamburger · Buffalo wing · Chili con carne · Hot dog · Bourbon whiskey
Government consensus
Normal precautions· 2 of 2 governmentsSources: official travel advice of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Upcoming public holidays
- Nov 11, 2026 · Veterans Day
- Nov 26, 2026 · Thanksgiving Day
- Dec 25, 2026 · Christmas Day
- Jan 1, 2027 · New Year’s Day
- Jan 18, 2027 · Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Feb 15, 2027 · Washington’s Birthday
- May 31, 2027 · Memorial Day
- Jun 18, 2027 · Juneteenth (substitute day)
Cities in United States
3.5 / 5United States
Washington, D.C.
$4,500/mo · 8°C
3.5 / 5United States
New York City
$4,500/mo · 9°C
3.4 / 5United States
Chicago
$4,500/mo · 6°C
3.5 / 5United States
San Francisco
$4,500/mo · 12°C
3.7 / 5United States
Los Angeles
$4,500/mo · 16°C
3.7 / 5United States
Miami
$4,500/mo · 24°C
3.7 / 5United States
Houston
$4,500/mo · 16°C
3.4 / 5United States
Boston
$4,500/mo · 5°C
Traveller essentials · United States
- Emergency
- 911
- Calling code
- +1
- Currency
- USD
- Plug types
- NEMA 5-15, NEMA 1-15
- Drives on the
- right
- Capital
- Washington, D.C.
Foreign missions in United States
AfghanistanNew York City1AlbaniaWashington, D.C., New York City2AlgeriaWashington, D.C.1AndorraNew York City1AngolaWashington, D.C., Houston2Antigua & BarbudaWashington, D.C.1ArgentinaWashington, D.C., Miami, New York City3ArmeniaWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York City3AustraliaWashington, D.C., New York City, Houston7AustriaWashington, D.C., New York City, Charlotte Amalie6AzerbaijanWashington, D.C.1BahamasWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta5BahrainWashington, D.C.1BangladeshWashington, D.C., New York City3BarbadosWashington, D.C., Miami2BelarusWashington, D.C., New York City2BelgiumWashington, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles4BelizeWashington, D.C., Chicago2BeninWashington, D.C.1Bhutan1BoliviaWashington, D.C.2Bosnia and HerzegovinaWashington, D.C.1BotswanaWashington, D.C.1BrazilWashington, D.C., Miami, New York City8BruneiWashington, D.C.1BulgariaWashington, D.C., New York City, Chicago4Burkina FasoWashington, D.C.1BurundiWashington, D.C.1CambodiaWashington, D.C., Seattle2CameroonWashington, D.C., New York City2CanadaWashington, D.C., Atlanta, Seattle7Cape VerdeWashington, D.C., New York City2Central African RepublicWashington, D.C.1ChadWashington, D.C.1ChileWashington, D.C., Miami2ChinaWashington, D.C., Chicago, New York City7ColombiaWashington, D.C., Miami, Orlando4Costa RicaWashington, D.C.1Côte d’IvoireWashington, D.C.1CroatiaWashington, D.C.1CubaWashington, D.C.1CyprusWashington, D.C., Seattle2CzechiaWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago24DenmarkWashington, D.C., Chicago, Palo Alto3DjiboutiWashington, D.C.1Dominican RepublicWashington, D.C., New York City, Miami4DR CongoWashington, D.C.1EcuadorWashington, D.C., Miami2EgyptWashington, D.C., Chicago3El SalvadorWashington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco10Equatorial GuineaWashington, D.C., Texas2EritreaWashington, D.C.1EstoniaWashington, D.C., New York City, San Francisco4EswatiniWashington, D.C.2EthiopiaWashington, D.C.1FijiWashington, D.C.1FinlandWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York City4FranceWashington, D.C., New York City, Houston13GabonWashington, D.C.1GambiaWashington, D.C.1GeorgiaWashington, D.C.1GermanyWashington, D.C., Miami, Chicago20GhanaWashington, D.C., New York City2GreeceWashington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco4GreenlandWashington, D.C.1GrenadaWashington, D.C.1GuatemalaWashington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale, Seattle8GuineaWashington, D.C.1GuyanaWashington, D.C.1HaitiWashington, D.C., Miami, Orlando3HondurasWashington, D.C., Chicago, Mission Hills5HungaryWashington, D.C., Chicago, New York City6IcelandWashington, D.C.1IndiaWashington, D.C., Seattle, Houston6IndonesiaWashington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles8IranSan Francisco1IraqWashington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles4IrelandWashington, D.C., Austin, Atlanta18IsraelWashington, D.C., New York City, San Francisco7ItalyWashington, D.C., Miami, New York City5JamaicaWashington, D.C.1JapanWashington, D.C., Nashville, Chicago17JordanWashington, D.C.2KazakhstanWashington, D.C.1KenyaWashington, D.C.1KosovoWashington, D.C.1KuwaitWashington, D.C.1KyrgyzstanWashington, D.C.1LaosWashington, D.C.1LatviaWashington, D.C., New York City, Chicago3LebanonWashington, D.C.1LesothoWashington, D.C.1LiberiaWashington, D.C.1LibyaWashington, D.C.1LiechtensteinWashington, D.C.1LithuaniaWashington, D.C.2LuxembourgWashington, D.C., San Francisco2MadagascarWashington, D.C.1MalawiWashington, D.C.1MalaysiaWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York4MaldivesWashington, D.C.1MaliNew York City, Washington, D.C.2MaltaWashington, D.C.1Marshall IslandsWashington, D.C., Portland2MauritaniaWashington, D.C.1MauritiusWashington, D.C.1MexicoWashington, D.C., Houston, San Diego28MicronesiaWashington, D.C.1MoldovaWashington, D.C.1MonacoWashington, D.C.1MongoliaWashington, D.C., New York City2MontenegroWashington, D.C.1MoroccoWashington, D.C., Miami, New York City3MozambiqueWashington, D.C.1MyanmarWashington, D.C., New York City2NamibiaWashington, D.C.1NepalWashington, D.C., New York City2NetherlandsWashington, D.C., Chicago, Miami7New ZealandWashington, D.C., Honolulu, Los Angeles4NicaraguaWashington, D.C., Miami2NigerWashington, D.C.1NigeriaWashington, D.C.2North KoreaNew York City1North MacedoniaWashington, D.C., Chicago2NorwayWashington, D.C., San Francisco, New York City5OmanWashington, D.C.1PakistanWashington, D.C., New York City, Houston5PalauWashington, D.C.1PalestineNew York City, Washington, D.C.2PanamaWashington, D.C.2Papua New GuineaWashington, D.C.1ParaguayWashington, D.C., Miami2PeruWashington, D.C., Accra, Port of Spain16PhilippinesWashington, D.C., Los Angeles, Honolulu8PolandWashington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles7PortugalWashington, D.C., Palm Coast2QatarWashington, D.C.1Republic of the CongoWashington, D.C., New York City2RomaniaWashington, D.C., Miami2RussiaWashington, D.C., New York City, New York7RwandaWashington, D.C.2San MarinoNew York City1São Tomé & PríncipeWashington, D.C.1Saudi ArabiaWashington, D.C., New York City2SenegalWashington, D.C.1SerbiaWashington, D.C., Chicago, New York City4SeychellesNew York City1Sierra LeoneWashington, D.C.1SingaporeWashington, D.C.1SlovakiaWashington, D.C.1SloveniaWashington, D.C., Cleveland, New York13SomaliaWashington, D.C.1South AfricaWashington, D.C., Chicago2South KoreaWashington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco12South SudanWashington, D.C.1SpainWashington, D.C., Miami, Chicago10Sri LankaWashington, D.C.1St. Kitts & NevisWashington, D.C.1St. LuciaWashington, D.C.1St. Vincent & GrenadinesWashington, D.C.1SudanWashington, D.C.1SurinameWashington, D.C.1SwedenWashington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles8SwitzerlandWashington, D.C., Atlanta, New York City6SyriaWashington, D.C.1TaiwanWashington, D.C., San Francisco2TajikistanWashington, D.C.1TanzaniaWashington, D.C.1ThailandWashington, D.C., Portland, Chicago3Timor-LesteWashington, D.C.1TogoWashington, D.C.1TongaSan Francisco1Trinidad & TobagoWashington, D.C., Miami2TunisiaWashington, D.C.1TürkiyeWashington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles8TurkmenistanWashington, D.C.1UgandaWashington, D.C.1UkraineWashington, D.C., New York City, San Francisco5United Arab EmiratesWashington, D.C., New York City, Houston6United KingdomWashington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles10UruguayWashington, D.C., Miami2UzbekistanWashington, D.C.1Vatican CityWashington, D.C., New York City2VenezuelaChicago, Texas2VietnamWashington, D.C.1YemenWashington, D.C., San Francisco2ZambiaWashington, D.C.1ZimbabweWashington, D.C.1
United States missions abroad
AfghanistanHerat1AlbaniaTirana1AlgeriaAlgiers1AngolaLuanda1ArgentinaBuenos Aires1ArmeniaYerevan2AustraliaCanberra, Perth, Melbourne5AustriaVienna4AzerbaijanBaku1BahamasNassau1BahrainManama1BangladeshDhaka1BarbadosBridgetown2BelarusMinsk1BelgiumBrussels3BelizeBelmopan1BeninPorto-Novo1BermudaHamilton1BoliviaLa Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra2Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo, Banja Luka2BotswanaGaborone1BrazilBrasília, São Paulo, Porto Alegre6BruneiBandar Seri Begawan1BulgariaSofia1Burkina FasoOuagadougou1BurundiBujumbura1CambodiaPhnom Penh1CameroonYaoundé2CanadaOttawa, Montreal, Toronto10Cape VerdePraia1Central African RepublicBangui1ChadN'Djamena1ChileLas Condes1ChinaBeijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong7ColombiaBogotá1Costa RicaSan José1Côte d’IvoireAbidjan1CroatiaZagreb1CubaHavana1CuraçaoCuraçao2CyprusNicosia1CzechiaPrague1DenmarkCopenhagen1DjiboutiDjibouti1Dominican RepublicSanto Domingo2DR CongoKinshasa1EcuadorQuito, Guayaquil3EgyptCairo, Alexandria2El SalvadorSan Salvador1Equatorial GuineaMalabo1EritreaAsmara1EstoniaTallinn1EswatiniLobamba1EthiopiaAddis Ababa2FijiSuva1FinlandHelsinki1FranceParis, Marseille, Strasbourg7GabonLibreville1GambiaBanjul1GeorgiaTbilisi1GermanyBerlin, Frankfurt, Munich7GhanaAccra1GreeceAthens, Thessaloniki2GreenlandSermersooq1GuatemalaGuatemala City1GuineaConakry1Guinea-BissauBissau1GuyanaGeorgetown1HaitiPort-au-Prince1HondurasTegucigalpa1HungaryBudapest1IcelandReykjavík1IndiaNew Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai5IndonesiaJakarta, Surabaya, Medan5IranTehran1IraqBaghdad, Erbil2IrelandDublin1IsraelTel Aviv1ItalyRome, Naples, Palazzo Calcagnini6JamaicaKingston, Montego Bay2JapanTokyo, Detroit, Sapporo11JordanAmman1KazakhstanAstana, Almaty2KenyaNairobi2KosovoPristina1KuwaitKuwait City1KyrgyzstanBishkek1LaosVientiane1LatviaRiga1LebanonBeirut1LesothoMaseru1LiberiaMonrovia1LibyaTripoli, Benghazi2LithuaniaVilnius1LuxembourgLuxembourg1MadagascarAntananarivo1MalawiLilongwe1MalaysiaKuala Lumpur1MaliBamako1MaltaValletta1Marshall IslandsMajuro1MauritaniaNouakchott1MauritiusPort Louis1MexicoMexico City, Nogales Municipality, Mérida11MicronesiaPalikir1MoldovaChișinău1MonacoMonaco1MongoliaUlaanbaatar1MontenegroPodgorica1MoroccoRabat, Casablanca2MozambiqueMaputo1MyanmarYangon, Mandalay2NamibiaWindhoek1NepalKathmandu1Netherlands's-Gravenhage, Amsterdam2New ZealandWellington2NicaraguaManagua1NigerNiamey1NigeriaAbuja, Lagos2North MacedoniaSkopje1NorwayOslo1OmanMuscat1PakistanIslamabad, Lahore, Karachi4PalauNgerulmud1PalestineJerusalem1PanamaPanama City1ParaguayAsunción1PeruLima1PhilippinesManila, Baguio, Cebu City3PolandWarsaw, Kraków, Poznań4PortugalLisbon, Ponta Delgada2QatarDoha1Republic of the CongoBrazzaville1RomaniaBucharest1RussiaMoscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok4RwandaKigali1SamoaApia1San MarinoSan Marino1Saudi ArabiaRiyadh, Jeddah, Dhahran3SenegalDakar2SerbiaBelgrade2Sierra LeoneFreetown1SingaporeSingapore1SlovakiaBratislava1SloveniaLjubljana1Solomon IslandsHoniara1South AfricaPretoria, Durban, Johannesburg4South KoreaSeoul, Busan2South SudanJuba1SpainMadrid, Barcelona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria4Sri LankaSri Jayawardenepura Kotte1SudanKhartoum1SurinameParamaribo1SwedenStockholm1SwitzerlandGeneva, Bern, Zurich4SyriaDamascus2TaiwanKaohsiung, Taipei2TajikistanDushanbe1TanzaniaDar es Salaam1ThailandBangkok, Chiang Mai2Timor-LesteDili1TogoLomé1Trinidad & TobagoPort of Spain1TunisiaTunis1TürkiyeAnkara, Istanbul, Adana4TurkmenistanAshgabat1UgandaKampala1UkraineKyiv1United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi, Dubai2United KingdomLondon, Belfast, Edinburgh3UruguayMontevideo1UzbekistanTashkent1Vatican CityVatican City1VenezuelaCaracas1VietnamHanoi, Ho Chi Minh City2YemenSanaa1ZambiaLusaka1ZimbabweHarare1
Who can enter United States without a visa?
Visa rules change often. Always confirm with the official embassy or government site before you travel.
Frequently asked questions
Embassies & consulates in United States?
592 missions, 188 countries.
Emergency: United States?
911
Who can enter United States without a visa?
4: Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau…