John Armstrong assumed the role of Senior Bureau Official in the Bureau of Consular Affairs on February 27, 2025, after briefly serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Overseas Citizens Services. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Previously, he served as Consul General in Lima, Peru. His other domestic service includes Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Director of the Washington Passport Agency, Senior Political Officer on the Russia Desk, and Belarus Desk Officer. Overseas, he served in Warsaw (Economic Counselor, Labor Officer, Trade Officer), Nassau (Consular Section Chief/acting Deputy Chief of Mission), Kyiv (Deputy Consul General), and Bucharest (Nonimmigrant Visa Chief). He earned degrees in history at the University of Minnesota (BA) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA). He was a Fulbright Researcher in Poland. With his wife of nearly four decades, he has three children and three grandchildren. He speaks Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian and some Russian. He joined the Foreign Service in 1994.