THE ASSISTANT STORK Your Document and Visa Specialist
	Oh where, oh where do my documents go? Oh where, oh where can it be? ...

First, you have to get your documents notarized, county sealed (in states where applicable), State Sealed, and finally to a Consulate or Department of State/Guatemala Embassy for authentication. Check here for Vital Records and Secretaries of State addresses, phone numbers and fees.

Always send your documents by FedEX, ExpressMail, Airborne, UPS... anything trackable. These documents are too precious to allow them to get "lost in the mail".

Be sure to include a self-addressed, pre-paid airbill with your request

Make your money order or cashier's check (they will not accept personal checks) out to "The Embassy of Guatemala". ALL Consulates and the Embassy charge a fee of $10 per document.

Your documents should go to the Consulate that has jurisdiction over the state your document originated from. If you do not wish to send parts of your dossier all over the country, you can send the entire dossier to the Embassy in DC. BUT if the document does not fall under the jurisdiction of the DC Embassy, it must go to the US Dept of State first. If the document DOES fall under the jurisdiction of the Embassy, it does not need to go to the State Dept first.

States:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Wake Island, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, The Carribean,

Here is a list of all the Consulates,
the Embassy, and the states they service:

Arizona Consulate

Arizona, New Mexico

Mr. Oscar Padilla Lam
Consulate of Guatemala
4747 N. 7th Street
Suite 410
Phoenix, AZ 85014
TEL: 602-200-3660

Open 9AM - 5PM

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LA, California Consulate

If you would like another mommy to expedite your documents through the Los Angeles consulate process, contact
Janice Moore at 951-805-3008. E-mail her for info at gggandjmoore@aol.com

California, Guam, Hawaii,
Nevada, and Wake island

(address updated 10/05)

Mr. Milton Alvarez
Consulate of Guatemala
1625 W. Olympic Blvd.
Suite 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90015
TEL: 213-365-9251/2
Servicios Migratorios (213) 365-1886 smeighan@minex.gob.gt
FAX: 213-365-9245
conslosangeles@minex.gob.gt
consulgen@guatemala-consulate.org

http://www.guatemala-consulate.org/

*PLEASE NOTE* The Consulate in Los Angeles no longer provides same day processing.
Overnight processing is still available for hand-carried documents.

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San Francisco, California Consulate

If you would like an adoptive mommy to expedite your documents through the San Francisco Consulate process, Jill Touloukian at jill@papermidwife.com or her website http://www.papermidwife.com would be glad to help you.

Alaska, California, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington.

(address updated 4/02)

Ms. Patricia Calderon
Consulate of Guatemala
870 Market Street #667
San Francisco, CA 94102
TEL: 415-788-5651
FAX: 415-788-5653
guate-sf@sfconsulguate.org

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Colorado Consulate

Colorado, Montana, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming

(address updated 3/08)

Consulate General
Guatemala Consulate of Colorado
1001 S. Monaco Pkwy, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80224
TEL: 303-629-9210 & 9212
FAX: 303-629-9211

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Florida Consulate

If you would like another adoptive mommy to expedite your documents through the New York consulate process, Tricia Ramsay would be glad to help you. E-mail her for info at Paxcourier@epiworld.com or see her website at: http://www.paxcourier.com/

Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the Carribean

(address updated 7/05)

Hugo Hun
Consulate of Guatemala
1101 Brickel Avenue
Suite 1003-South Tower
Miami, FL 33131
TEL: 305-679-9945/48
FAX: 305-679-9983
cgguamia@bellsouth.net

Fee is $10 per document
Money order or cashier's check only

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Georgia Consulate

Consulate of Guatemala
Document Authentication
2750 Buford Hwy NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
TEL: 404-320-8804

Open 9AM - 2PM

Fee is $10 per document
Money order or cashier's check only

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Illinois Consulate

If you would like another adoptive mommy to expedite your documents through the Chicago Consulate process, Denise Hope at http://www.theres-always-hope.com would be glad to help you.

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Rhode Island Consulate

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, and Vermont

(address updated 5/06)

CXarlos Auilia
Consulate of Guatemala
754 Branch Ave, Suite 201
Providence, RI 02904
TEL: 401-270-6345 or 6374
FAX: 401-270-7039
consrhodeisland@cons.necoxmail.com

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Texas Consulate

If you would like another adoptive mommy to expedite your documents through the Houston Consulate process, Cindy Marut would be glad to help you. E-mail her for info at cmarut@earthlink.net

Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, and Texas

(address updated 4/02)

Mr. Jose Barillas
Consulate of Guatemala
3013 Fountain View
Suite 210
Houston, TX 77057
TEL: 713-953-9531
FAX: 713-953-9383
consulguat@aol.com

The Houston Consulate will process documents overnight for Cindy.

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Washington, DC Embassy

If you'd like another adoptive mommy to expedite your documents through the Embassy in Washington, DC
click here for my page at http://www.asststork.com/pages/courier.html

Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky,
Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

(address updated 2/04)

Ms. Karla Juarez
or Maria Candelaria Hernandez
Embassy of Guatemala
2220 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
TEL: 202-745-4952
Fax: 202-745-1908
immigration@guatemala.org

*PLEASE NOTE* The Embassy in Washington, DC does not provide same-day processing

If you wish to send documents to the Embassy in Washington, DC that do NOT fall under their jurisdiction, they must first be authenticated by the US Department of State:

The Authentications Office of the US Department of State
Columbia Plaza (State Annex #1)
518 23rd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
TEL: 202-647-5002 or
800-688-9889 (option #6)
http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/

Fee: $7.00 per document

Make personal check, money order or cashier's check to "US Department of State"

This step takes 1-6 weeks by mail or 1-2 hours in person. (Which is why I'm a courier for the DC area.) But if you DO go in person, the Authentications office is in a shopping mall, the last "shop" on the left. Also, realize the US Dept of State will only process 15 documents per day.

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this page last edited 12/21/06

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