For the Tanzanian community in Washington, this is the practical link to the administration back home — documents, identity, civil status, and help when something goes badly wrong far from home.
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: 1232 22nd ST NW, Washington
- Phone: (202) 939-6125
- Official website: https://www.us.tzembassy.go.tz
- Type of office: Embassy
🛂 The consular work done at this post
Tanzanian consular offices generally handle the following, though not every post offers every service:
- Powers of attorney: authorising someone to act for you back in Tanzania — selling property, dealing with a bank, handling an estate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Passports: the most common reason people come here. Expect an appointment, a visit in person, and a wait while the document is produced elsewhere.
📅 Getting an appointment
Assume you need one. The exceptions are rare and tend to exist for emergencies rather than for convenience.
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.
Ask about payment when you book. Cash or a money order for the exact amount is common across consular networks, and cards are the exception rather than the rule.
🤝 Practical points
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.
Common questions before you go
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.
Which source wins if there is a contradiction?
The office’s own, at www.us.tzembassy.go.tz. No directory, this one included, replaces the official source.
Where exactly is this embassy?
At 1232 22nd ST NW, in Washington. 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 (202) 939-6125. Note who you speak to and what you are told, because requirements differ between posts of the same country.
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.