Ukrainian consulate in Fort Smith
Fort Smith is served from another city: Ukraine keeps no consulate there. The Ukrainian Consulate General in Houston sits 519 miles from Fort Smith by road, about 9 h 21 min if the traffic is light.
Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.
Which Ukrainian consulate serves Fort Smith?
On its own pages, the Ukrainian Consulate General in Houston puts Arkansas in its consular district (district list, in Ukrainian).
| Ukrainian office | Straight-line distance |
|---|---|
| Consulate General, Houston (office for Fort Smith here) | 395 miles |
| Consulate General, Chicago | 580 miles |
| Embassy, Washington, D.C. | 985 miles |
| Consulate General, New York | 1,170 miles |
| Consulate General, San Francisco | 1,556 miles |
Getting from Fort Smith to your Ukrainian office
9 h 21 min on the road from Fort Smith rules out a same-day visit; plan to sleep near Houston.
At the Houston consulate, visits are booked in advance, and a finished passport is collected without one.
Birth and marriage records for Fort Smith and the Ukrainian office
For a child born in Fort Smith, the birth certificate comes from the Vital Records Section of the Arkansas Department of Health, in Little Rock (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records). The Ukrainian office takes it apostilled, together with an apostilled notarized translation; see the Arkansas page.
In Sebastian County, where Fort Smith is, marriage records are kept by the Sebastian County Clerk (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and for a new surname in a Ukrainian passport that certificate goes apostilled and translated.
Cities around Fort Smith
- Fayetteville, Arkansas, 49 miles away
Without leaving Fort Smith: what can be done
- You can follow your passport at passport.mfa.gov.ua with the session ID you get when you file: Ukrainian passport.
- You can apply for a Ukrainian tax number in electronic form through e-Consul: Tax number (RNOKPP).