French consulate in Manhattan
Manhattan sits in a French consular district without an office in the city itself. The office for Manhattan is the Consulate General of France in New York, a drive of 3 miles (9 min).
Which French consulate covers Manhattan?
Your address in Manhattan places you in New York, and New York is served by the Consulate General of France in New York.
For a passport, Manhattan is 3 miles from New York: one trip if you are on its Registre, since New York mails the new passport home if you provide FedEx Express (category E only) or a USPS Priority Mail or Priority Mail Express envelope with tracking; otherwise a second short trip to collect it, by appointment.
The ID card is never mailed, and no honorary consul of the New York district with a published office is within 250 miles of Manhattan: count on two trips for it.
Is there a French office closer to Manhattan?
From Manhattan, the consulate in New York is nearer than any honorary office of its district.
Visa applicants from Manhattan deal with TLScontact, not the consulate; its nearest center is in New York, 3 miles away as the crow flies. Centers as listed in October 2025 (TLScontact).
Nearby cities and their consulate
- Union City, 2 miles away, covered by New York
- Hoboken, 3 miles away, covered by New York
- Jersey City, 4 miles away, covered by New York
- Brooklyn, 8 miles away, covered by New York
What you can settle from Manhattan without traveling
- Check that a US citizen needs no visa for up to 90 days in any 180 (journalists on assignment are the exception).
- Download your certificate of residence from Service-Public.fr if you are on the Registre.
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