Dual accreditation is the practice in

diplomacy Diplomacy is the communication by representatives of State (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international syste ...

of a country granting two separate responsibilities to a single

diplomat A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...

. One prominent form of dual accreditation is for a diplomat to serve as the

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...

to two countries concurrently. For example, Luxembourg's ambassador to the United States is also its non-resident ambassador to Mexico and Nicaragua. Such an ambassador may sometimes be called Ambassador-at-Large. The

Holy See The Holy See (, ; ), also called the See of Rome, the Petrine See or the Apostolic See, is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. It encompasses the office of the pope as the Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishop ...

refuses to accept dual accreditation with Italy, an assertion of sovereignty dating from the prisoner-in-the-Vatican dispute. For example, when Ireland closed its embassy to the Holy See in Rome, accreditation as Irish ambassador to the

was given to a diplomat based at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin rather than to the Irish ambassador to Italy. According to the 2021 US State Department Office of Foreign Missions' Accreditation Handbook, "Separately, the Department may consider the dual accreditation of an individual performing ''administrative functions and duties only'', e.g., a consular employee, who performs administrative duties or submits eGov transactions in connection with his/her government’s representation to the UN." In other foreign services, such as that of the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

, an Ambassador may be appointed in a non-resident capacity to more than one country apart from where he serves as resident ambassador, making the qualifier "dual" inapplicable. In Philippine diplomatic practice, the term "concurrent jurisdiction" is more often used.

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