The North Texas Council for International Visitors welcomes guests into area workplaces and homes.  The visitors come to the United States under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State.

While NTCIV volunteers continue their work as citizen diplomats, America’s top diplomat, U.S. Pres. Barack Obama took the lead with his international travels during the summer.
Most recently, Mr. Obama visited Ghana. That trip followed his appearance at the G-20 summit in Europe, including stops in Italy and the Soviet Union.
To the good fortune of NTCIV, Mr. Obama’s surprise trip to Iraq in the spring occurred simultaneously with a program of Iraqi water engineers in North Texas.
The visitors, 9 engineers and 3 language officers, were excited to receive the technical training in the U.S. They were equally pleased that Mr. Obama traveled to their country.
"We very much love and respect the president for his visit to our country," said Ali Abdulzahra Hasan, director of services in Iraq’s Karada province. "
"We would like for the president to come more often to Iraq because this is the only way for our countries to share information and to work to solve our problems," Hasan said, through language officer Isam Elzein.
"We’d also like to share with the American people, to have the experience of talking about our culture and commercial and other issues that are very important to both of our counties."
The visitors came to North Texas for the Essential Public Works Services program in mid-April. "Since we came here, we have learned a lot, especially in the water treatment programs and the city planning programs. This has been a great experience," said Mohan Mahi Shabeeb Al-Khafaji, pictured at right before and after his visit to the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth.
"We would like to continue these types of visits."

Iraqi visitor Mohan Mahi Shabeeb Al-Khafaji before and after receiving a red handkerchief as a gift from Fort Worth’s National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum.