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Bahamas – United States relations are bilateral relations between the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the
As a neighbor, the Bahamas and its political stability are important to the United States. The U.S. and the Bahamian government have worked together on reducing crime and addressing migration issues. With the closest island only 45 miles from the coast of
The Embassy of the Bahamas in Washington, D.C. is the
The United States Department of State
- The Bahamas
The Embassy of the United States of America
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United States of America
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territo ...
.
History
The Bahamas and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1973. Historically, they have had close economic and commercial relations. The countries share ethnic and cultural ties, especially in education, and the Bahamas is home to approximately 30,000 American residents. In addition, there are about 110 U.S.-related businesses in the Bahamas and, in 2005, 87% of the 5 million tourists visiting the Bahamas were American.
As a neighbor, the Bahamas and its political stability are important to the United States. The U.S. and the Bahamian government have worked together on reducing crime and addressing migration issues. With the closest island only 45 miles from the coast of Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
, the Bahamas often is used as a gateway for drugs and illegal aliens bound for the United States. The United States and the Bahamas cooperate to handle these threats. U.S. assistance and resources have been essential to Bahamian efforts to mitigate the persistent flow of illegal narcotics and migrants through the archipelago
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Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Arc ...
. The United States and the Bahamas also actively cooperate on law enforcement, civil aviation
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, marine research, meteorology
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, and agricultural issues. The U.S. Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
operates an underwater research facility on Andros Island
Andros Island is an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands. Politically considered a single island, Andros in total has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined. The land area of Andros consis ...
.
The Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...
's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection maintains "pre-clearance" facilities at the airports in Nassau and Freeport. Travelers to the U.S. are interviewed and inspected before departure, allowing faster connection times in the U.S.
Principal U.S. officials
* Ambassador – Usha E. Pitts * Deputy Chief of Mission – Timothy Zúñiga-Brown * Management Officer – David Elmo * Consul – Virginia Ramadan * Political-Economic Section Chief – Daniel O'Connor * Public Affairs Officer – Daniel O'ConnorDiplomatic missions
The Embassy of the Bahamas in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission
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of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the United States
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. It is located at 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row
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neighborhood. The embassy also operates Consulates-General in Atlanta
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, Miami
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, New York City
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and Washington D.C. Since March of 2022, the Ambassador of Bahamas to the USA has been Wendall K. Jones.
The U.S. Embassy for the Bahamas is located in Nassau, New Providence Island
New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It is the location of the national capital city of Nassau, whose boundaries are coincident with the island; it had a population of 24 ...
, the Bahamas.
See also
* North American Free Trade Agreement *Free Trade Area of the Americas
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas, excluding Cuba. Negotiations to establish the FTAA ended in failure, however, with all parties unab ...
* Third Border Initiative
*Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organization that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) throughout the Caribbean. They have primary objectives to promote econo ...
*Caribbean Basin Initiative The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), a trade initiative initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), is a United States program. The CBI came into effect on January 1, 1984, and aimed to provide several tariff and trade ben ...
(CBI)
*Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
The Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) is a United States legislative act signed into law on May 18, 2000 by President Bill Clinton as part of the Trade and Development Act of 2000. This latter act, which also included the Africa Grow ...
*Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) is the implementation of the requirement to show a passport or other acceptable document to enter the United States, for nationals of certain North American jurisdictions who were previously exempt ...
*Foreign relations of the United States
The United States has formal diplomatic relations with most nations. This includes all UN member and observer states other than Bhutan, Iran, North Korea and Syria, and the UN observer State of Palestine, the last of which the U.S. does not rec ...
* Foreign relations of the Bahamas
References
External links
The United States Department of State
- The Bahamas
The Embassy of the United States of America
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