Indian consulates in the United States

India runs 9 consular offices in the United States: the embassy in Washington and eight consulates general. Two of them are recent, and their arrival is still working its way through the official pages: Boston took five New England states from New York, and Seattle took the northern plains from Chicago. There are no honorary consuls.

The single most useful thing to know before setting off is that the consulate is often not the building you need. Passports, visas, OCI cards and surrender certificates go through VFS Global, which runs the application centres. Chicago and Atlanta publish the VFS address on their own front pages without saying that is what it is, and in Seattle the two share a building and differ by suite number.

The busiest question in the whole subject is how to renew an Indian passport, at 22,200 searches a month, and the consulate does not take that application. The next two are asked by Americans travelling to India: the answer is that a US passport does need a visa, and that for almost every trip the e-Visa covers it online.

Five states are claimed by two consulates at once. Wyoming appears in both the San Francisco and the Seattle districts; North Dakota and South Dakota moved to Seattle and Chicago still lists them; and the five New England states that went to Boston are still advertised on the New York consulate's own homepage. California is the only state split by county, and Bakersfield falls on the Los Angeles side of it.

India does not allow dual citizenship. Taking another nationality ends the Indian one on the spot, which is why the surrender certificate and the OCI card between them account for most of the paperwork this network handles. Since 8 July 2026 new OCI cards are digital only. Our pages on how each office takes appointments and on fees and requirements put the nine side by side.

Where the Indian offices are

Here are all the Indian consulates in the United States

The embassy and the fourteen consulates general issue passports, visas, certificates and family register entries. A consular office is a smaller category with a narrower range, and an honorary consulate issues nothing at all.

Consulate General in New York

Consulate General in Boston

Consulate General in Atlanta

Consulate General in Chicago

Consulate General in Houston

Consulate General in San Francisco

Consulate General in Los Angeles

Consulate General in Seattle

And the embassy

The embassy in Washington is a mission to the United States, not a consulate for the country. Its own district is seven units wide and stops at Maryland in the north and Virginia in the south.

Its chancery and its consular section are in different buildings, and the application centre that acts for it is a third address again.

Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Other cities

There is no Indian consulate in most American cities. These have a page of their own: which office covers them, how far away it is, and what can be settled without going.

State and territory flags from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain.

Book an appointment

Each office takes appointments its own way. Pick yours and the three buttons take you to the page that answers the question you have.