2006 Press Releases
Embassy Announces New Consular Section Chief
September 26, 2006
Virginia Sher Ramadan, the new Chief of the Consular Section is responsible for all American Services and Visa matters. Prior to her arrival in September, Ms. Ramadan served as the first U.S. Public Affairs Officer in Libya since bilateral diplomatic relations were established after a gap of more than a quarter century, and helped open the United States Embassy in Tripoli in May of 2006. Ms. Ramadan served in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Tunis, Tunisia in her initial tours with the Foreign Service. She left the Service in 1981 to pursue a career in law, and rejoined the Service in 1999. Her first assignment after rejoining the Foreign Service was as the countrywide Fraud Prevention Manager for Brazil, based out of Rio de Janeiro, where she led a large team dedicated to combating illegal entry into the United States.
During the years outside the Foreign Service, Ms. Ramadan served as an attorney with international law firm of Coudert Brothers in New York, as an immigration attorney with Catholic Charities in Virginia, and was a law professor for 14 years at New York Law School, teaching Immigration Law, International Business Transactions, Wills, Trusts and Future Interests and Property Law. Ms Ramadan obtained her Bachelors of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and holds an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and her LLM (master’s degree) in International Law from Columbia Law School in New York. Ms. Ramadan speaks Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic. She and her husband, Walid, and their four children look forward to the next three years in the beautiful Bahamas.