France serves the United Kingdom from two consulates general, in London and Edinburgh, and a network of nineteen honorary consuls, from Aberdeen to Gibraltar. The Embassy in Knightsbridge deals with the British government, not with passports.
The split is simple and published: Scotland goes to Edinburgh, everyone else to London, including Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. Since 22 September 2026, a passport applied for in London can no longer be posted to or collected in Scotland.
Several procedures do not go through a consulate. A France visa is applied for through France-Visas and TLScontact; a British passport holder needs no visa for up to 90 days, and ETIAS is not running yet; a UK apostille comes from the FCDO.
Honorary consuls issue no passports, but they can hand one over for £8.36 (€10), so living far from London rarely means two trips. Five of them, including Birmingham and Belfast, give their meeting place only when you book.
Passport and ID card appointments are booked on consulat.gouv.fr; how each office handles them is under appointments, and the fees in pounds, from the consulate's own table, are under requirements. Questions go to France Consulaire, a phone service in France that answers in French only.
Where the French offices are
The map shows the two consulates, the Embassy and the honorary consuls with a published office address. Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton and Newhaven, Leeds, Nottingham and Chesterfield and Plymouth are not on it: their address is given when you book, or is a private one.
Here are all the French consulates in the United Kingdom
The two consulates general issue passports and ID cards, keep the Registre, certify signatures and take voting proxies. Each covers its own part of the UK, and your address decides which one is yours.
And the Embassy?
The Embassy of France in the United Kingdom, at 58 Knightsbridge, represents France before the British government. Passports, ID cards, the Registre and civil status go through the Consulate General in London, at 21 Cromwell Road, or Edinburgh for Scotland.
The nineteen honorary consuls
An honorary consul is a volunteer who represents France locally. They issue no passports or ID cards; depending on the agency, they hand over documents applied for at a consulate, take voting proxies and certify signatures, copies and certificates of life. Grouped here by the consulate they report to:
By nation and territory
Each page says which consulate covers you and lists the main cities with their distance to it and their nearest honorary consul.
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Channel Islands
GibraltarFlags from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain.
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We publish what the official sources say and point out where they disagree. Before you go, check the detail with the consulate.