Consulate General of Canada in Boston

Boston serves all of northern New England from Copley Place. Massachusetts supplies most of the district's population; Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire supply most of its border with Canada. The furthest city in its district with a page here is Presque Isle, 399 miles away.

Contacting the Boston office

This is the district where the gap between everyday Canadian contact and consular distance is widest in the northeast. Derby Line and Calais are hours away from an office that is a short walk from Back Bay station.

What the Boston office handles

Canada assigns Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont to this office.

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

These are handled online or by mail, and no appointment speeds any of them up.

• 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.
• Renew a permanent resident card, An IRCC application. The card is mailed, and never to an address outside Canada.