Two were consular employees.

Consular time charges: As required by this Schedule and for fee services performed away from the office or during after-duty hours (per hour or part thereof/per consular employee).

For example, fifteen French diplomats and consular employees were refused entry into the Gaza Strip in July 2009, where they were expected to celebrate the 14th of July.

Georg Rosen, consular employee of the German Foreign Office who helped create the Nanking Safety Zone.

He knew no one in this country, spoke minimal English and had few marketable skills, according to consular employees who interviewed him.

While it is rare for Indonesian nationals to seek accommodations at the consulate, it happens two or three times a year and is not regarded as extraordinary, consular employees said.

It has also hired legal staff, set up a telephone hot line and trained its consular employees in the intricacies of United States political asylum applications.

"We have as many as 200 applications a day, but we can only process a handful," a consular employee said.

A State Department directive has forbidden consular employees from handling all but emergency applications, such as those involving the death or critical illness of a close relative.

Last week two American consular employees were killed and a third wounded when their van was ambushed on the city's main thoroughfare.