If you hold Romanian 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.
Honorary consuls are local professionals rather than career diplomats, and the post is often run alongside another job. Opening hours tend to be limited and the service list short.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 4180 Emigration Canyon RD, Salt Lake City
- Phone: (801) 541-2928
- Official website: https://washington.mae.ro/en/node/422
- Type of office: Honorary Consulate
🛂 The consular work done at this post
Honorary posts vary more than career ones. As a rule the list runs to:
- Visas: applications from people travelling to Romania, where the category is not handled through an online system.
- Passports: generally not issued here. The application goes to the career post that covers this district.
- Powers of attorney: drawn up or witnessed here for use at home. The wording should come from the lawyer or notary who will use it.
- Civil status: births, marriages and deaths occurring here have to be entered in the home register, and that is done through the consulate.
- 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.
📅 Appointments and waiting times
Appointments are the norm rather than the exception. Plan around the availability at the Salt Lake City office rather than around your own calendar.
Check the official site for how this post takes bookings — online system, email or telephone all exist across the network. Whatever the method, it is free.
Bring originals and copies of everything. Counters keep the copy and return the original, and the reverse is the exception.
🤝 Before you make the trip
Jurisdiction decides everything and distance decides nothing. A file submitted to the wrong post is returned, however close that post happens to be.
Check that names and dates match across every document you bring. Mismatches stop files more often than missing papers do.
Where a document has to be produced back home, the appointment is the start of the timetable rather than the end of it.
Common questions before you go
Do I need a visa to visit Romania?
That depends on your nationality and the length of the trip. Where Romania does require one, it is increasingly applied for online rather than at a counter.
Which source wins if there is a contradiction?
The office’s own, at washington.mae.ro/en/node/422. No directory, this one included, replaces the official source.
Where exactly is this honorary consulate?
At 4180 Emigration Canyon RD, in Salt Lake City. Check the floor or suite number before travelling — it is the detail that ruins more visits than anything else.
How do I get hold of this office?
By telephone on (801) 541-2928. Note who you speak to and what you are told, because requirements differ between posts of the same country.
Can I renew a Romanian passport here?
An honorary consulate generally does not issue passports. It advises and assists, but the application itself goes to the career post serving Romania.