Embassies and Consulates for English Speaking Countries
Posted by The Expatriator
Spain Expat's helpful list of embassies and consulates for your home country and Spain. Includes American, Canadian, British, Irish, Australian, and Dutch embassies in Spain.
Embassies and Consulates can be your vital line to your home country, its government and its services. Depending on your location, you may only have access to a local consulate or, in some cases, a trade office. In many parts of Spain, including the north and south, you may have to travel quite far to reach the closest embassy or consulate for your country in Spain. Generally your embassy can be contacted by email or by phone however (and they recommend you do so upon arrival to register yourself and qualify for their assistance in the future).
(Skip down to your country’s list of embassies and consulates:
Embassies and Consulates of the USA in Spain
Embassies and Consulates of Canada in Spain
Embassies and Consulates of England in Spain
Embassies and Consulates of Ireland in Spain
Embassies and Consulates of Australia in Spain
Embassies and Consulates of The Netherlands in Spain
Embassy Services:
The following is a list of services generally offered by your embassy or consulate for citizens abroad:
- Information for travelers and travel warnings about Spain
- Emergency assistance for victims of crime, medical issues, deaths and traveler welfare
- Money transfers
- Passport assistance, renewals, emergency passports
- Reports of death and birth
- Marriage registration
- Voting assistance
- Legal services like notarization, document registration, police records (Certificado de Antecedentes Penales)
The following is a more practical list provided by the US Consulate, which, as an example of most western consular organizations, should give you an idea of what to expect or not expect from yours. Contact your specific consul for more detailed information.
What Consuls can do for you:
- Assist you with repatriation, if you are destitute.
- Give a list of attorneys, doctors and others.
- Help you in case of death of relative in Spain.
- Help you to call your parents and them to communicate with you.
- Help to get money from home.
- Inform you concerning the handling of your lost or stolen passport.
- Issue, renew or replace you a passport.
- Notarize your documents and signature for use in the U.S.
- Prepare travel documents for resident aliens with lost Alien Registration Cards.
- Provide general information on income tax, Social Security and voting matters.
- Provide you with information on U.S. Nationality laws.
- Register the birth abroad of your U.S. citizen children.
- Register you as a U.S. citizen residing abroad.
- Visit you in jail to assure the protection of your civil and human rights.
What Consuls cannot do for you
- Act as interpreters/translators.
- Act as travel agents, make hotel or plane reservations for you.
- Act as your attorney or give legal advice.
- Cash you Social Security, Veterans Administration, Civil Service, personal checks or savings bonds.
- Fill out income tax forms or give you information on your personal income tax problems.
- Find employment for you.
- Furnish bail.
- Get you out of jail.
- Intervene in disputes with shops, landlords, hotel managers or others.
- Obtain visas, arrange residency or work permits or driver’s licenses.
- Pay bills, telephone charges or lend you money.
- Perform a marriage ceremony.
- Receive mail or packages for you.
- Renew or replace documents issued by state authorities.
- Safeguard wills or valuables or act as a mailbox for you.
- Search for missing luggage.
- Witness your marriage.


