Honorary Consul of Germany in Philadelphia

German consulate in Philadelphia
An honorary consul is not a consulate general. None of them issue visas, and only some can take a passport application. Fees are paid in cash in US dollars, and applying through one adds 105.00 € to the passport fee.

Philadelphia is the German honorary office for New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The career mission behind it is in New York.

How to reach this office

  • Address
    Ralf D. Wiedemann; Honorary Consul of Germany; c/o Cambridge Innovation Center; 3675 Market Street, Suite 200; Philadelphia, PA 19104
  • Telephone
    +1 215-948-8121
  • Email
    philadelphia@hk-diplo.de
  • Honorary consul
    Ralf D. Wiedemann, Honorary Consul
  • States covered
    New Jersey and Pennsylvania
  • Reports to
    German Consulate General in New York
Book an appointmentFees and requirementsThe thirteen procedures

What this office can and cannot do

An honorary consulate is not a smaller version of a consulate general. It is a different kind of office with a narrower brief.

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

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.

No honorary consul issues visas or German ID cards. Those are limited to the embassy and the eight consulates general.

There are no published counter hours. Email or call first and agree a time before travelling.

How far your consulate general is

New York is 97 miles away, about 2 h 11 min by road at posted speed limits and without traffic. That is close enough that the consulate general is a realistic option for anything this office cannot handle.

The other German offices near you

Philadelphia is not the only honorary consulate covering this ground.

What you can settle without travelling

A good part of German paperwork never touches a consulate.

  • 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
  • Find out whether you are German at all: the dates of your family's emigration decide it, and you can work that out from your own records before anyone books an appointment

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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