Timor-Leste maintains an embassy in Washington, D.C., as well as a Permanent Mission in New York City at the United Nations.

The United States has a large bilateral development assistance program, $20.6 million in 2007, and also contributes funds as a major member of a number of multilateral agencies such as the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.

Major Aaron Harris is the Office of Defense Cooperation chief.

USAID began supporting the development of effective democratic electoral and political processes in Timor-Leste in 1999.

[1] Between 2001 and 2008, USAID gave $2,215,997 to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems to develop an electoral framework and processes, $3,619,134 to the International Republican Institute to develop political parties, and $3,728,490 to the National Democratic Institute to increase citizen participation and local governance.