French Consulate in Los Angeles
The Consulate General of France in Los Angeles covers southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico from Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City. Its consul general is Adrien Frier.
How to book an appointment at the French Consulate in Los Angeles
Showing up at the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles without an appointment does not get a file looked at.
Monday to Friday, 2 to 10 pm Paris time, which is 5 am to 1 pm Pacific for most of the year, except French public holidays
Passport and ID card appointments are booked on consulat.gouv.fr, the ministry's booking site, from the link for Los Angeles on the network's passport page: one appointment covers one person, and a passport and an ID card for the same person fit in one slot.
For a signature certification, the network's page on that act gives legalisation.los-angeles-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr to request the appointment.
Booking is free. What you pay is the chancery fee of the service, set in euros and charged in dollars.
It has a paid photo booth on site, which the network says is not suited to newborns or small children, and it mails passports with a FedEx Express Saver label you prepare.
How to cancel an appointment at the French Consulate in Los Angeles
A slot released in time can serve someone who has been trying for weeks.
Cancel on consulat.gouv.fr itself, from your booking: the platform asks you to confirm and lets you add a message. For anything booked another way, write through the network's contact form, us.diplomatie.gouv.fr/contact.
Getting to the French Consulate in Los Angeles
The address is 10390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 410, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Arrive a little early, with your confirmation, an ID and the originals of your documents.
Buses 4 and 704 stop at Santa Monica / Beverly Glen. There is parking under the building (entry from the alley at the back), street parking, and the Westfield Century City garage five minutes away on foot. The consulate has a paid photo booth, not suited to newborns or small children.
Real reviews of the French Consulate in Los Angeles
Some of the reviews people leave on Google, summarized in their own words and without polish.
On Google the office averages 4.0 stars from 378 reviews.
Renewing his passport and ID card took exactly 29 minutes; he wishes every government office worked that fast.
Baur N.
The staff is professional, but getting there is not easy: you need a car, parking is hit or miss and LA traffic makes arriving on time a gamble; you may wait outside if the consulate runs late.
Théo F.
He came after a rainstorm to renew his son's passport and found the power out and the office closed for the day, with no backup generator.
Edouard B.
Opening hours of the French Consulate in Los Angeles
The hours below are the ones the office publishes; with an appointment, the time on your confirmation is the one that counts. By appointment, Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 1 pm and 2 to 4:30 pm. Collecting a passport or ID card also takes an appointment.
Phone number of the French Consulate in Los Angeles
Questions about passports, ID cards, civil status, nationality or social matters go to France Consulaire, the information line for French people abroad, which answers in French only.
From the US it is +1 (310) 893-0920, at the price of a local call; from abroad, +33 4 11 77 30 15 (Monday to Friday, 2 to 10 pm Paris time, which is 5 am to 1 pm Pacific for most of the year, except French public holidays).
The consulate's own line, +1 (310) 625-9713, is for extreme emergencies of French nationals only (an accident, a death, an arrest, a child in danger); a lost passport is not one: report it through the contact form. (source)
France Consulaire's hours are set in Paris time, 2 to 10 pm. The network's contact page and the English version of this consulate's page convert them to 5 am to 1 pm Pacific; its French version says 6 am to 2 pm.
The first figure is right for most of the year: the one-hour gap only holds in the weeks when France and the US change their clocks on different dates. (sources: 1, 2, 3)
What this office handles in Los Angeles
The Consulate General of France in Los Angeles covers Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, southern California and southern Nevada. It handles the Registre, passports and ID cards, proxies, certificates and signature certification for its district.
Civil status and nationality files from the Houston, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco districts are handled here, in Los Angeles. It supervises the honorary consuls in Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque, Las Vegas and San Diego.
The nationality page tells you to mail the file “to the consulate of your place of residence”; the “who to contact” page says nationality files are handled only by Los Angeles and Washington, and splits the country between the two. Mail it to the one that covers your district. (sources: 1, 2)
What you can settle without traveling
- Have a US birth transcribed in the French registers by mail: the transcription is free and has no deadline.
- Check that a US citizen needs no visa for up to 90 days in any 180 (journalists on assignment are the exception).
- Ask the Paris judicial court for a certificate of French nationality by mail, since no consulate issues it.
Details checked against the official pages on October 6, 2026.
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