Trade Office of Canada in Houston
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.
There is a Canadian office in Houston and it cannot help you with anything consular. It works with energy and industrial companies on exports and investment, and it has no consular section.
Where the Houston office is
- Address
5847 San Felipe Street, Houston, TX 77057 - Telephone
(713) 821-1440
Texas is covered for consular purposes by the Consulate General in Dallas, 240 miles north. That is the office that takes appointments, issues travel documents and witnesses signatures.
The office that does serve Texas
Consular business for Texas goes to the Consulate General of Canada in Dallas. That is where appointments are booked, travel documents issued and signatures witnessed.
What you can do without coming in
A good share of Canadian paperwork never touches a consulate.
- 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.
- Apply for a citizenship certificate, Online or on paper, direct to IRCC. This is the document that proves you are Canadian.
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.