Contacting us by Mail or Telephone 

Postal Address:
Cairo
The Embassy of the United States of America
Embassy of the United States of America
5 Tawfik Diab Street
Garden City, Cairo
Egypt
Telephone: (20-2) 2797 3300 Fax: (20-2) 2797 3200

Alexandria  
The American Center Alexandria (ACA)
3 Pharaana Street Alexandria
Telephone: (20-3) 486-1009 Fax: (03) 487-3811

Consular Service

If you have a question about visas or any other consular matter, please see the Consular Service page. 

Our Cairo call center handles general questions, responds to case-specific inquiries, and schedules appointments for certain services (but not visa interviews). The number is 0900-70600. You may only call from a land line in Egypt to reach this number, and you will be charged a small fee. You may also call 2100 from a call center mobile in Egypt.

Non Immigrant Visa applicants can check their application status here. 
Immigrant Visa applicants can check their Interview schedule here.

Educational & Cultural Exchanges

For information on U.S. Embassy cultural activities, upcoming cultural programs, and/or exchange opportunities, please visit the Cultural Section page or call us at: +(20-2) 2794-9601 or 2797-3529 from 10:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday to Thursday.

If you're interested in inviting an Embassy speaker for your group or event, please utilize the request form.

The Cultural Office is unable to reply to inquiries on visas, consular matters, or taxation issues. For that information, please see the Consular Services at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt website.

Press Inquiries  

For press related inquiries, Journalists may contact the Embassy press office as follows: 
Email: PressInfoEgypt@state.gov
Phone: +(20-2) 2797-3474 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday to Thursday.
For breaking news events outside of regular business hours, journalists may contact the Embassy switchboard at +(20-2) 2797-3300 and request to be connected to a press officer.

For more details, please visit the Press Office Contact-us page

The Press Office is unable to reply to inquiries on visas, consular matters, or taxation issues. For that information, please see the Consular Services at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt website.    

Information Resource Center 

The Information Resource Center operates a reference service, open to Government offices, libraries and other researchers. Contact us by telephone at (20-2) 2797-3295 or by email (email:cairoircref@state.gov). 

For more details, please visit IRC Contact-us Page.

The reference service is unable to reply to queries on visas, passports, regulations on living or working in the U.S., American citizen services, notary services, taxation or other consular matters. For that information, please see the Consular Services at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt website. 

USAID Egypt

Please visit the USAID http://egypt.usaid.gov/
or visit the Contact-us page http://egypt.usaid.gov/ContactUs.aspx 

Foreign Agricultural Service

You may contact the FAS office by any of the following ways:
Telephone: (20-2) 2797-2388 / 2389
Fax: (20-2) 2796-3989
E-mail: AgCairo@usda.gov 

For more details, please visit FAS's Contact-us page.

Commercial Service

Please visit the U.S. Commercial section at the U.S. Embassy http://www.buyusa.gov/egypt
or visit the Contact-us page http://www.buyusa.gov/egypt/en/contactus.html 

Human Resources  

For current job opening, please visit the Human Resources page.
For inquiries on employment opportunities at the U.S. Embassy send an E-mail to:cairohrjobs@state.gov. 

Webmaster

Please address all technical questions or comments concerning this web site to the Webmaster
The Webmaster is unable to reply to inquiries on visas, consular matters, or taxation issues. 

The Embassy is closed on all American and Egyptian holidays. If you are planning on visiting the Embassy in Cairo or The American Center Alexandria, please visit our holidays page.