Ukrainian consulate in San Diego

There is no Ukrainian office in San Diego for passports or citizenship papers. From San Diego, the Ukrainian Consulate General in San Francisco is 500 miles by road, roughly 9 h 24 min of driving without traffic.

Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.

Which Ukrainian consulate serves San Diego?

The consular district that the Ukrainian Consulate General in San Francisco publishes includes California (district list, in Ukrainian).

Planning the visit from San Diego

With 9 h 24 min of driving, a visit from San Diego means a night near San Francisco before your slot.

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 can be collected at VFS Global in Los Angeles, 111 miles from San Diego, if you order and pay for the courier (VFS conditions, in Ukrainian).

Where people in San Diego get the U.S. records Ukraine asks for

For a child born in San Diego, 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 San Diego County, where San Diego is, marriage records are kept by the San Diego 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.

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