Consulate General of Canada in Denver
Denver runs the mountain west, from the Montana border down to Utah and east across almost all of Kansas. By area it is the largest consular district in the continental United States, and much of it is empty road. The furthest city in its district with a page here is Kalispell, 1,002 miles away.
Contacting the Denver office
- Address
1625 Broadway, Suite 2600, Denver, CO 80202 - Telephone
1-844-880-6519 - Email
ccs.scc@international.gc.ca - Fax
1-303-626-0681 - Consular hours
Monday to Friday, 08:30-11:30 and 13:00-15:30, by appointment
Kansas City is the exception in this district: it belongs to Chicago. Read strictly, that carve-out names the city and not its suburbs, so Johnson County sits in an awkward gap.
What the Denver office handles
Its consular district is Colorado, Kansas (except Kansas City), Montana, Utah and Wyoming.
Appointments cover notarial acts, certified copies, permanent resident travel documents and urgent passport cases.
What it cannot do
A long list of things people arrive expecting are handled somewhere else entirely.
- It does not issue a permanent resident card, which IRCC prints and mails.
- It does not issue a citizenship certificate, which is also an IRCC application.
- It does not issue a birth, marriage or death certificate, which are provincial.
- It does not grant an eTA or a visitor visa, both of which are online applications.
What you can do without coming in
None of the following requires the trip.
- 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.
- 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.