Canadian consulate in San Jose

There is no Canadian consulate in San Jose. The office that covers you is the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco, 49 miles away.

Where San Jose is served from

California sits in the San Francisco consular district, and every appointment, travel document and witnessed signature for San Jose goes through that office.

Routing puts it at 49 miles and about 1 h 1 min of driving, before any traffic.

That makes San Jose the 6th closest of the 17 cities in California on this site.

Consulate in San Francisco

What you can do from San Jose without travelling

Before you plan the trip from San Jose, check whether you need to make it at all.

  • Get an eTA, A web form linked to your passport. Most applications are approved within minutes.
  • Order a birth or marriage certificate, From the province where it happened. Ottawa does not hold these records.
  • Check an application, Every IRCC and passport application can be followed online.

The office works on appointments only, so the drive from San Jose is wasted without one.

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