German Consulate General in Los Angeles

German consulate in Los Angeles
Watch the word Nevada. The state of Nevada belongs to Los Angeles, but Nevada County in California belongs to San Francisco. They are two different places with the same name, and the two consulates that cover them are 400 miles apart.

Los Angeles covers Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah in full, and then the southern third of California by county rather than by line on a map. The office is on Wilshire Boulevard, in the Miracle Mile. Its ten Californian counties run from San Luis Obispo down to the Mexican border.

Address, telephone and opening hours

  • Address
    6222 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90048
  • Telephone
    +1 (323) 930-2703
  • Fax
    +1 (323) 930-2805
  • Head of mission
    Andrea Sasse, Consul General
  • Official website
    www.los-angeles.diplo.de
Book an appointmentFees and requirementsThe thirteen procedures

What this office does

Passports, ID cards, name declarations and citizenship files are all handled here, which is true of only nine offices in the country.

  • German passports, including the fingerprints every application needs
  • German ID cards, which honorary consuls cannot issue
  • Name declarations, registrations of birth and of marriage
  • Certification of signatures and certified copies
  • Forwarding citizenship files to the Federal Office of Administration in Cologne

Incomplete applications are refused at the counter, so the document list matters as much as the date.

Honorary consuls in this district

5 honorary offices report to Los Angeles.

Of these, Denver and Salt Lake City can take a passport application, which for much of this district is a far shorter journey.

What you can settle without travelling

A good part of German paperwork never touches a consulate.

  • Order copies of German civil records for a citizenship file: those come from German municipalities by post, and they are the slowest part of any descent case
  • Order a German birth, marriage or death certificate: the registry office of the German town where it happened issues it, and most of them take an online or postal request
  • Get a certificate of conduct: the Federal Office of Justice handles it; any US notary public can notarize your signature on the form

This is an independent directory of German consular offices in the United States. It is not operated by the Federal Foreign Office or by any German mission. Fees, opening hours and requirements change: always confirm them with the office before you travel.

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