If you hold Norwegian nationality and live within reach of Los Angeles, 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.
Everything on record about this office follows: where it is, how to reach it, what it does, and what to settle before you go.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 11766 Wilshire BLVD, Los Angeles
- Phone: (310) 444-7750
- Type of office: Consulate
🛂 The consular work done at this post
Norwegian consular offices generally handle the following, though not every post offers every service:
- Assistance: the part of consular work nobody plans for. An arrest, a hospital, a death in the family, documents gone.
- Documents: certification for use across borders. Whether that means an apostille or full legalisation depends on treaties, not on preference.
- Passports: the most common reason people come here. Expect an appointment, a visit in person, and a wait while the document is produced elsewhere.
- Civil status: births, marriages and deaths occurring here have to be entered in the home register, and that is done through the consulate.
- Visas: the counter still matters for the categories online systems do not cover, which is most things beyond tourism.
- Powers of attorney: authorising someone to act for you back in Noruega — selling property, dealing with a bank, handling an estate.
📅 Appointments and waiting times
Appointments are the norm rather than the exception. Plan around the availability at the Los Angeles office rather than around your own calendar.
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 Norwegian 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 in Los Angeles
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.
How do I get hold of this office?
By telephone on (310) 444-7750. Note who you speak to and what you are told, because requirements differ between posts of the same country.
Does this consulate cover my state?
Consular districts are drawn by each country, and the nearest office is not always the competent one. Confirm the district before booking anything in Los Angeles.
Where exactly is this consulate?
At 11766 Wilshire BLVD, in Los Angeles. Check the floor or suite number before travelling — it is the detail that ruins more visits than anything else.