French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
Anne Lancelle is France's honorary consul in Tampa, Florida, reporting to Miami.
How to book an appointment at the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
To be seen at the Honorary Consulate of France in Tampa, write or call first.
Passports and ID cards are filed at the Consulate General of France in Miami, the consulate this honorary consul reports to.
Visits are by appointment; the directory gives the number +1 (813) 368-3304 and no office address.
How to cancel an appointment at the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
There is no booking portal to cancel with an honorary consul: a call or an email does it. Its contacts: +1 (813) 368-3304 and tampa@agenceconsulaire.fr.
Getting to the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
For a passport or an ID card, the trip is to the Consulate General of France in Miami, at 1395 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1050 (10th floor), Miami, FL 33131, about 206 miles from Tampa in a straight line.
Passports are collected there without an appointment, Monday to Thursday 9 am to noon and 2 to 4 pm, or mailed to people on its Registre who provide USPS Priority Mail or Priority Mail Express with tracking for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands (DHL or FedEx for the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos).
Real reviews of the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
No public reviews of this honorary office turned up in our survey. For the Consulate General of France in Miami, where its passports are filed, Google shows 4.1 stars from 344 reviews, and its page summarizes three.
Opening hours of the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
By appointment. The card still opens with the notice that the Tampa office reopened on December 9, 2022.
Phone number of the French Honorary Consulate in Tampa
The directory gives +1 (813) 368-3304 for this honorary consul.
What this office handles in Tampa
What an honorary consul can do, as the network's pages put it:
- hand over a passport or an ID card filed at the consulate, if you asked for it when you applied and the consul is authorized to do so
- give information, point you to the right service and offer first-level help, including in an emergency
- collect some files and pass them on to the consulate
Readers from 4 cities on this site are pointed here for a first contact: Clearwater (23 miles by road), St Petersburg (24 miles), Sarasota (61 miles) and Fort Myers (127 miles).
Pensioners asking for a certificate of life are sent to a notary public: as the network's certificate of life page puts it, consulates and honorary consuls in the US no longer issue it as a rule.
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).
- Join the consular electoral list online, up to six weeks before an election.
Details checked against the official pages on October 6, 2026.
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