German Consulate General in New York

German consulate in New York
This consulate does not publish a permanent switchboard number. Its own page lists temporary numbers with different hours on different days, and those change. We are not reprinting a number that will be wrong next month: check the consulate’s own contact page on the day you need to call. The fax line is stable.

New York covers three states, and one county of a fourth. New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the obvious part. The odd one is Fairfield County in Connecticut, which is carved out of the Boston district because it commutes to Manhattan rather than to New England. The consulate sits in United Nations Plaza, across from the UN complex.

Address, telephone and opening hours

  • Address
    871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
  • Telephone
    This consulate does not publish a permanent number. Check its own contact page on the day.
  • Fax
    +1 212 610 9709
  • Head of mission
    Consul General
  • Official website
    www.new-york.diplo.de
Book an appointmentFees and requirementsThe thirteen procedures

What this office does

The full range of consular work is done here: this is a career mission, not an honorary office.

  • 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

Applications arriving by post are not processed, so the journey is unavoidable for anything biometric.

Honorary consuls in this district

3 honorary offices report to New York.

Of these, Buffalo and Philadelphia can take a passport application, which for much of this district is a far shorter journey.

What you can settle without travelling

Several of the most searched German procedures are handled entirely somewhere else.

  • Get a certificate of conduct: the Federal Office of Justice handles it; any US notary public can notarize your signature on the form
  • 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

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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