French consulates in the United States

France serves the United States from ten consulates general, in New York, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and from a network of 55 honorary consuls, from Anchorage to San Juan. The Embassy itself, as the network's page says, has no direct contact with individuals.

Two states are split between two consulates without a published line: California and Nevada, “north” to San Francisco and “south” to Los Angeles. And Louisiana has its own consulate, but its French page says it issues no passports: those are filed in Houston.

Births, marriages, deaths and nationality files for the whole country are handled in two places, Los Angeles and Washington. The transcription of a US birth is free and goes by mail, and the certificate of French nationality comes from the Paris judicial court, not from a consulate.

Several things do not go through a consulate at all. A US citizen needs no visa for trips of up to 90 days, a visa for France goes through France-Visas and TLScontact, and the apostille on a French document now comes from the notaries in France.

Passport and ID card appointments are booked on consulat.gouv.fr, and how each consulate handles them is under appointments; the fees, from one table for the US network, are under requirements. Questions go to France Consulaire, a phone service that answers only in French.

Where the French offices are

The map shows the ten consulates general and the honorary consuls with a published office address; those whose directory card gives no office address are not on it.

Here are all the French consulates in the United States

The ten consulates general issue passports and ID cards (New Orleans sends those to Houston), keep the Registre, certify signatures and take voting proxies. Each covers a list of states, and your address decides which one is yours.

Consulate General in San Francisco

Consulate General in New York

Consulate General in Los Angeles

Consulate General in Miami

Consulate General in Houston

Consulate General in Chicago

Consulate General in Washington, D.C.

Consulate General in Boston

Consulate General in Atlanta

Consulate General in New Orleans

And the Embassy?

The Embassy of France in Washington represents France before the US government and, as the network's page says, has no direct contact with individuals. Passports, the Registre and civil status in its area go through the Consulate General in Washington, on the same grounds.

The 55 honorary consuls

An honorary consul is a volunteer who represents France locally. The network's page says they do not issue official documents; they inform, direct people to the right service, collect some files and, when authorized, hand over a passport or an ID card filed at the consulate. Grouped here by the consulate they report to:

Other cities

There is no French consulate in most American cities. These have a page of their own: which consulate covers them, how far away it is, an honorary consul of the district and what can be settled without going.

State and territory flags from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain.

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