Trade Office of Canada in Palo Alto
This is a trade office. It works with companies on exports, investment and innovation, and it has no consular section: no passports, no citizenship certificates, no notarial services and no appointments for any of them.
The Canadian office on Lytton Avenue works with technology companies in Silicon Valley. It is a trade office, not a consulate, and it has no consular section.
Where the Palo Alto office is
- Address
245 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 - Telephone
(650) 543-8800
Northern California is covered by the Consulate General in San Francisco, 35 miles north. Southern California is covered by Los Angeles, and Canada does not publish where the two districts meet.
The office that does serve California
Consular business for California goes to the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco. That is where appointments are booked, travel documents issued and signatures witnessed.
What you can do without coming in
Most of what brings people to this page is done from home.
- Check an application, Every IRCC and passport application can be followed online.
- Renew a permanent resident card, An IRCC application. The card is mailed, and never to an address outside Canada.
- Apply for a citizenship certificate, Online or on paper, direct to IRCC. This is the document that proves you are Canadian.
- Get an eTA, A web form linked to your passport. Most applications are approved within minutes.
This is an independent guide, not a government website. Fees, forms and processing times change, and Canadian passport fees now rise every year under the Service Fees Act. Check the figure that applies on the day you apply.