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U.S. Department of State

Assisting American Citizens

The State Department Provides Consular Services to American Travelers and Residents Abroad (1998 figures):

• Issuing 6.5 million U.S. passports
• Answering 215,000 inquiries about U.S. citizens abroad
• Monitoring 5,000 Americans imprisoned overseas
• Assisting more than 15,700 overseas adoptions
• Assisting 7,000 American families with overseas deaths
• Helping evacuate U.S. citizens from 18 countries
• Providing information on travel to every country, via the State Department Web site:

  www.state.gov
  or
  www.travel.state.gov

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