This site is an independent directory. It is not operated by, affiliated with or endorsed by any government, embassy or consulate, and nothing here is legal or immigration advice. This page explains where the information comes from, how it is checked, what the banner at the top of each procedure page means, and how to get something corrected.
Where the data comes from
The directory of consular offices is built from publicly available official sources, principally the list of foreign consular offices and recognised consular officers in the United States published by the U.S. Department of State, together with the websites of the missions themselves.
Procedure pages draw on the publishing authority for each country: foreign ministries, immigration services, civil registries and the individual consulates. Where we cannot establish something from one of those, we say what to ask instead of filling the gap.
What we include, and what we do not
- Career consular offices and diplomatic missions that provide consular services to the public.
- Honorary consulates, where an official source lists them.
- Offices that no longer provide consular services are marked as such rather than deleted, so that a stale link elsewhere lands on an accurate page.
- We do not list private agencies, visa expediters or intermediaries, and we do not accept payment for inclusion.
The banner at the top of each procedure page
Every procedure page carries a banner saying how far that page has been checked. There are two of them, and the difference matters:
- “Checked [month].” The page was written for that country and its details were checked against the authority’s own sources in the month named.
- “Revised [month], not yet country-checked.” The office details come from our directory and the apostille status from the HCCH status table, but that country’s procedure pages have not yet been through our source-by-source review. The page gives the questions to ask rather than that country’s rules.
Roughly half this site is in each state at the time of writing, and the second kind is being worked through country by country. We would rather label it on the page than let you assume the whole site was checked on the same day, because it was not.
The figures on these pages
Where a page gives a fee, a validity period or a turnaround, it is because we went to the authority that sets it and wrote down what we found. The banner at the top of that page says which month we checked. Where we could not establish a figure, the page tells you what to ask instead of guessing at it.
Two cautions apply to every figure here, and they are the reason most directories give none at all. Consular tariffs change without notice, differ between posts of the same country, are often payable only in cash for an exact amount, and are sometimes set in the home currency — confirm the amount with the office before you buy a money order. A processing time is the authority’s own estimate, not a promise, and it depends on the home country rather than on the office you attend. Never book travel against one, ours included.
We give you the number rather than making you hunt for it, and we date it so you can judge how much weight it will bear. If a figure here has moved, tell us and we will change it. That is the arrangement, and it is why the correction address on this page is read by a person.
Pages that had never been researched used to carry invented figures anyway. Those were removed in October 2026 and replaced with the questions to put to the office that will serve you, and the banner on each page now says which of the two kinds you are reading.
We also do not publish the name of any individual consular officer, or any detail about a named private person.
Apostille and legalisation status
Whether a country is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention decides whether a U.S. document needs one certificate or a chain of four, so getting it wrong is expensive. We take it from one authoritative source: the official status table of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), the body that administers the Convention.
That table was consulted on 5 October 2026. Every apostille page states the date the Convention entered into force for that country, including the countries where it has been signed but has not yet taken effect and the old chain still applies.
Honorary consulates, which are the hardest to keep right
An honorary consul is usually a local resident appointed part-time. The post can move with the person, it often has no website of its own, and it generally cannot issue passports or visas. If a page here lists an honorary consulate that no longer operates, or implies it can do something it cannot, that is the most likely error on this site and the one we most want reported.
Corrections and removals
If something here is wrong, out of date or should not be listed, write to j19187232@gmail.com with the URL of the page and, where possible, a link to the official source.
A correction backed by the authority’s own site is applied the same week. A detail we cannot verify anywhere is removed rather than left standing, because an unverifiable address is worse than none. Consular offices asking for an entry to be corrected or removed are attended to first, and we do not require them to explain why.
We do not ask for your name, and we do not need it.
Known limits
- Not every country is covered, and some have no consular office in the United States at all. Where that is so, the page says it rather than pretending otherwise.
- Consular districts — which office covers which states — are published inconsistently by the countries themselves. We tell you to ask rather than guess, and we do not reproduce district lists we cannot source.
- This directory covers offices in the United States only.
- Where an official source and this site disagree, the official source is right.
Advertising
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Last review
This methodology was last revised in October 2026. What changed: invented figures were removed from the pages that had never been researched, while the researched ones were kept; apostille status was sourced country by country from the HCCH status table; and the verification banner described above was added to every procedure page, so that the claim this page makes about dating is one you can check for yourself.