Except for embbassies and conculates, can department of state have other offices?

[AmericanWannabe]

I just heard a person lost his green card and did not go to consulte
to get that special letter but only went to Department of States
office in some hotels to get one.

 

[hot mail]

May be he was in Iraq

May be he was in Iraq

There all government offices work out of Hotels in "Green Zone"

 

[AmericanWannabe]

I doubt that. A consulate is an exterritorial area, so there are quite a lot of official governmental issues.
And, with the terrorist threat, US consular posts have a lot of security that you can't get in a hotel suite. It may have been different 30, 40 years ago...

But FBI have offices in many countries, operating outside
the regular diplomatic missions.

 

[AmericanWannabe]

They are part of the diplomatic missions. See http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/audit/FBI/0418/chap1.htm
"Legal Attaché personnel are considered part of the U.S. Embassy staff and the Legal Attaché office is located in a controlled access area within the diplomatically protected premises of a U.S. embassy or consulate."
No country in the world can operate a police force outside their territory.

If they are part of the embassy, then why do sometimes FBI
still need permission of a foreign country to set up office there
after the embassy is already there? Why just send in
attachee as part of the embbassy?

Some countries do not like American marines defending US embbasy
in their country but has no control over their arrivial anyway
because the marines are part of the embassy staff.