The year 1963 marked the beginning of an official U.S. presence in Seychelles when the U.S. Air Force Tracking Station was built and put into operation on Mahé.

The USAF Tracking Station facilities were situated on land that was leased from the Seychelles Government ($4.5 million annually).

The station's complement consisted of five uniformed Air Force personnel (two officers and three sergeants), 65 employees of Loral Corporation and Johnson Instruments, and 150 Seychellois employees.

A U.S. consulate was opened in May 1976 and became an embassy after Seychelles' independence in June 1976.

The embassy was subsequently closed in August 1996, and the United States opened a consular agency on September 2, 1996, to provide services to residents of Seychelles.