• U.S. Department of State (www.state.gov) official web site.
  
• Travel.state.gov
  - International Travel Tips
  - Current Travel Warnings
  - Passports
  - Per Diem Rates by Location
  - International Financial Scams
  - Help For American Victims Of Crime Overseas
• Department of State (DOS) at usa.gov/Agencies
• Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions (www.usembassy.gov)

Secretary of State - Hillary Rodham Clinton 
  Deputy Secretary of State - James B. Steinberg

• Bureau of African Affairs (AF)
• Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP)
• Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR)
• Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA)
• Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA)
• Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA)

  Special Envoys:
 - Special envoy to the Middle East - George Mitchell
     Israeli-Palestinian conflict
 - Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan -  Richard Holbrooke
 - U.S. special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth
 - Special Envoy for Kosovo - Frank Wisner


Department Organization:
  
Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) - Assists American citizens traveling or living abroad
                                   and issues visas to foreign nationals.
Chief of Protocol
Office of Inspector General (OIG) 
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)
Under Secretary for Political Affairs (P) Group 
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) 
Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs (E) Group  
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security (T)  
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN)
Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Bureau.
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM)
Office of Management Policy (M/P)
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs (G) Group  
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES)
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP)
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (R) 
Bureau of Public Affairs 
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
 

• U.S. Mission to the United Nations (USUN NY) (New York);
• U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS) (Washington, DC);
• U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna (UNVIE) (Vienna);
• U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (USNATO) (Brussels);
• U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (USOECD) (Paris);
• U.S. Mission to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva (Geneva);
• U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) (Brussels);
• U.S. Mission to the International Civil Aviation Organization (USICAO) (Montreal);
• U.S. Mission to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (FODAG) (Rome); and
• U.S. Observer Mission to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Paris).
• U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (UNCHS) (Nairobi)