Ukrainian consulate in Pasadena
There is no Ukrainian office in Pasadena for passports or citizenship papers. By road, the Ukrainian Consulate General in San Francisco is 381 miles from Pasadena, around 7 h 5 min at the speed limit.
Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.
Which Ukrainian consulate serves Pasadena?
California belongs to the consular district of the Ukrainian Consulate General in San Francisco, according to the office’s own pages (district list, in Ukrainian).
| Ukrainian office | Straight-line distance |
|---|---|
| Consulate General, San Francisco (office for Pasadena here) | 347 miles |
| Consulate General, Houston | 1,362 miles |
| Consulate General, Chicago | 1,735 miles |
| Embassy, Washington, D.C. | 2,285 miles |
| Consulate General, New York | 2,440 miles |
Getting from Pasadena to your Ukrainian office
A trip from Pasadena to the San Francisco consulate takes 7 h 5 min by road: count on a night near San Francisco.
At the San Francisco consulate, filings are booked in e-Consul and there is a waiting list for passport slots; collecting finished documents needs a Setmore booking.
A finished passport does not need a second trip: VFS Global can deliver it, at your expense, to its center in Pasadena itself (VFS conditions, in Ukrainian).
Birth and marriage records for Pasadena and the Ukrainian office
For a child born in Pasadena, the birth certificate comes from the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office, in Sacramento (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The Ukrainian office takes it apostilled, together with an apostilled notarized translation; see the California page.
In Los Angeles County, where Pasadena is, marriage records are kept by the Los Angeles County Recorder (or its Clerk, for a confidential marriage) (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and for a new surname in a Ukrainian passport that certificate goes apostilled and translated.
Cities around Pasadena
- Los Angeles, 9 miles away
- Santa Monica, 22 miles away
- Anaheim, 25 miles away
- Long Beach, 26 miles away
Without leaving Pasadena: 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 travel to Ukraine on a U.S. passport for up to 90 days in any 180 without a visa: Visa for U.S. citizens.
