About the Consulate

General Information

The Consulate General in Monterrey is one of the largest and busiest consulates in the world.  The Monterrey consular district, includes Nuevo Leon, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi and most of Coahuila. This district has nearly 11 million inhabitants (the size of Texas),  The Consulate General staff includes 46 Americans representing eight U.S. government agencies plus their 89 Mexican employees. The Consulate General also oversees a Consular Agency in San Luis Potosi.  The American Citizen Services (ACS) unit assists numerous Americans in distress in case of arrest, sickness or accident, death or disappearance.  ACS also provides a wide range of passport, citizenship and notarial services to the estimated 70,000 American Citizens who are permanently resident in the consular district.