If you hold Swedish nationality and live within reach of Salt Lake City, this is the office your paperwork goes through. Consular work is unglamorous and exacting, and knowing what this post does before you turn up saves the wasted morning that catches most people out.
The contact details, the services usually available and the appointment process are set out below, along with the things worth knowing before you make the trip into Salt Lake City.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 28 S 400 E, Salt Lake City
- Phone: (801) 532-8664
- Type of office: Consulate General
🛂 Services normally available
In broad terms, expect the following. Anything unusual is worth confirming by telephone first:
- Visas: the counter still matters for the categories online systems do not cover, which is most things beyond tourism.
- Civil status: births, marriages and deaths occurring here have to be entered in the home register, and that is done through the consulate.
- Documents: certification of papers so they have legal effect abroad — either an apostille or the older legalisation chain, depending on the country.
- Assistance: the part of consular work nobody plans for. An arrest, a hospital, a death in the family, documents gone.
- Powers of attorney: property sales, inheritance and banking are the usual reasons. Registries are strict about wording, so vague drafting gets rejected.
📅 Before you book
Most consular procedures need an appointment, and at a busy consulate general the wait for one is usually the longest part of the whole process.
This post does not publish an online booking route, so contact it directly and ask how appointments are arranged.
If you are travelling a long way, telephone first to confirm the appointment still stands. Closures are announced at short notice.
🤝 Worth knowing before you go
Districts get redrawn. If you last used this office years ago, confirm it still covers you.
Names are the other recurring problem. Where the spelling on an American document differs from the Swedish record — accents dropped, surnames ordered differently, a married name — expect to be asked for evidence explaining the difference.
Where a document has to be produced back home, the appointment is the start of the timetable rather than the end of it.
Before you travel to the consulate general in Salt Lake City
How do I know which office is mine?
By the consular district assigned to it, not by distance. It is the first thing worth asking on the phone.
Do I need a visa to visit Sweden?
That depends on your nationality and the length of the trip. Where Sweden does require one, it is increasingly applied for online rather than at a counter.
What if I lose my passport days before a flight?
That does not go through the ordinary appointment queue. Call and say it is an emergency: for imminent travel most networks issue a travel document valid for a single journey.
Does this office handle passports?
It usually does, by appointment and with personal attendance for biometrics. Ask whether the booklet is collected at the counter or posted out.