If you hold British 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.
Below you will find the contact details on record, what the office typically handles, how appointments work and the questions people ask most before travelling to Los Angeles.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 2029 Century Park E 1350, Los Angeles
- Phone: (310) 789-0031
- Official website: http://www.gov.uk/government/world/usa
- Type of office: Consulate
🛂 Consular services at a glance
British consular offices generally handle the following, though not every post offers every service:
- Civil status: a marriage celebrated in the United States does not exist back home until it is registered. The same goes for a birth and a death.
- Powers of attorney: property sales, inheritance and banking are the usual reasons. Registries are strict about wording, so vague drafting gets rejected.
- Help in trouble: a consulate cannot lift you out of a foreign legal system, but it can make sure you are not facing it alone.
- Documents: certification of papers so they have legal effect abroad — either an apostille or the older legalisation chain, depending on the country.
- Passports: the most common reason people come here. Expect an appointment, a visit in person, and a wait while the document is produced elsewhere.
- Visas: entry permission for those whose nationality requires it. Ask whether your trip needs one at all before assuming it does.
📅 Before you book
Appointments are the norm rather than the exception. Plan around the availability at the Los Angeles office rather than around your own calendar.
Use the office’s own channel. Sites that charge for slots are intermediaries, and consulates warn against them regularly.
Bring originals and copies of everything. Counters keep the copy and return the original, and the reverse is the exception.
🤝 Worth knowing before you go
Jurisdiction decides everything and distance decides nothing. A file submitted to the wrong post is returned, however close that post happens to be.
Keep the old documents. Expired passports, previous identity cards and original certificates are asked for far more often than people expect, and reconstructing them from abroad is slow.
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
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.
Where exactly is this consulate?
At 2029 Century Park E 1350, in Los Angeles. Check the floor or suite number before travelling — it is the detail that ruins more visits than anything else.
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.
Where can I check the official information?
On the office’s own site at www.gov.uk/government/world/usa, which is the source to follow.
Do I need a visa to visit the United Kingdom?
That depends on your nationality and the length of the trip. Where the United Kingdom does require one, it is increasingly applied for online rather than at a counter.
How do I confirm the requirements before travelling there?
By telephone on (310) 789-0031. Ask about the documents and the exact fee: both change without much notice, and many posts take only cash or a money order.
Can I go there if I live in another state?
Usually not: applications from outside the district are refused. Ask which states the Los Angeles office covers before you travel.