Honorary Consul of Germany in Detroit

Germany keeps an honorary consul in Detroit to serve Michigan, under the supervision of the mission in Chicago.

How to reach this office

What this office can and cannot do

Honorary consuls hold limited consular authority and are not staffed like a career mission. Many are not German citizens.

This office can take passport applications, including the fingerprints. That is not true of most honorary consuls, and it saves the trip to Chicago.

Applying through an honorary consul adds 105.00 € to the passport fee, and the office may charge its own forwarding cost. Payment is in cash, in US dollars.

Visas and German ID cards are outside every honorary consul's powers, here and everywhere else in the country.

It is worth starting here even for things that end up elsewhere: the office knows the local situation.

How far your consulate general is

The consulate general in Chicago is 283 miles from here, roughly 5 h 21 min of driving without traffic. That is a long day out and back, so it is worth confirming by email what can be settled locally first.

What you can settle without travelling

Before you plan the trip, check whether your matter needs the office at all.

• Get a document apostilled: for a US document it is the Secretary of State of the issuing state; no German mission can do it
• Send in a life certificate for your pension: there is a free digital route with a QR code, and a bank or a police station can sign the paper one
• Apply for a visa you may not need: a US passport gets you 90 days in Germany without one

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.