Tuvalu keeps a single office in the United States, in New York, and it is not a consulate. It is Tuvalu's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, which is at the same time the Embassy of Tuvalu to the United States. There is no Tuvaluan embassy in Washington and no Tuvaluan consulate anywhere in the country — and that is not a gap in our data. The U.S. Department of State says so in its own bilateral fact sheet, and Tuvalu's published list of its missions abroad shows none here.
So everything a Tuvaluan citizen in the United States needs from their own government runs through one address in Manhattan. This page gives what we hold for it, the one thing it cannot do for you, and the six consular procedures Tuvaluan citizens ask about most.
Quick facts
Tuvalu's one office in the United States
One wrinkle worth knowing before you travel. The United Nations' own directory of permanent missions gives suite 1104 and the telephone above, and that is what we publish. The last printed edition of the UN Blue Book, of January 2023, gives suite 1110, a different telephone and a Gmail address. The building is the same in both. If you come across the older listing somewhere, ours is the more recent of the two.
What that one office does
The Mission states its double role on its own page, in its own words: "The Tuvalu Permanent Mission to the United Nations is also the Embassy of Tuvalu to USA and Cuba." For Tuvaluan citizens in the United States it lists visa briefs, passport renewals, marriage registration, legalisation of documents and registration of the birth of a child.
Because it is the only office, there is no jurisdiction to work out. Whichever state you are in, this is the one that covers you, and there is no nearer alternative to try instead.
A new passport means Funafuti
This is the one that catches people out. The Mission lists "passport renewals" among its services, but its own passport page narrows what that means, and the narrowing is the important part: "New Tuvalu passports are only issued from capital - Funafuti." No Tuvaluan mission, embassy, high commission or honorary consulate anywhere in the world can issue a new one.
What a mission can do is extend the validity of a passport you already hold into its second five-year term. A Tuvaluan passport runs for ten years in two halves, and New York can carry you across the halfway point. Once the full ten years are up, the replacement has to come from Funafuti.
If the passport is lost rather than expired, the Mission's own instruction is to contact it by telephone or email for guidance first, rather than to turn up with the problem.
Consular procedures for Tuvaluan citizens
No honorary consulate here, and the Pacific makes that conspicuous
Tuvalu maintains nine honorary consulates around the world — in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Not one of them is in the United States.
Honolulu is where that absence shows. The Consular Corps of Hawai‘i lists consuls for the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa and Tonga. Tuvalu is not among them. If you are in Hawai‘i, closer to Funafuti than to Manhattan, your nearest Tuvaluan authority is still New York.
U.S. documents for use in Tuvalu
Tuvalu is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention. An apostille is therefore not enough: a U.S. document intended for use in Tuvalu goes through the full legalisation chain — authentication by the Secretary of State of the state that issued it, then the U.S. Department of State, then a Tuvaluan consular stamp.
That last stamp is the Mission in New York, and legalisation of documents is one of the services it lists. Ask it first how it wants the document to arrive, because there is no second office to try.
Apostille status from the HCCH status table for the Convention of 5 October 1961, checked on 7 October 2026.
Translation
Documents issued in Tuvalu may arrive in English or Tuvaluan. A U.S. authority takes the English ones as they stand; anything in Tuvaluan normally needs a certified English translation. Who counts as a certified translator is decided by the authority that receives the document, not by the Mission, so ask before you pay for one.
And in the other direction
The United States has no embassy or consulate in Tuvalu either. Tuvalu is covered from the U.S. Embassy in Suva, Fiji, whose officers are concurrently accredited to Tuvalu. An American ambassador has been resident at Suva since the first one presented credentials in 1980, and no U.S. mission has ever been established in Funafuti. As recently as July 2026 the Embassy was still issuing programmes in its own name for Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu.
Checked on 7 October 2026 against the Permanent Mission of Tuvalu to the United Nations, the UN Blue Book ST/PLS/SER.A/311 of January 2023, the U.S. Department of State bilateral fact sheet on Tuvalu, the Office of the Historian of the Department of State, and the Consular Corps of Hawai‘i. One check we could not make: the Department of State's register of foreign consular offices in the United States was unreachable, so our statement that Tuvalu has no consulate here rests on the State Department's own fact sheet and on Tuvalu's published list of its missions abroad, which lists none.