On June 27, 2018, the Visas section of the French Consulate of San Francisco was replaced by the contractor VFS Global.

It is necessary to contact the chancellery as soon as your documents have been lost or stolen, regarding the renewal of passports or to obtain scholarships, grants, or other scholar financial aides.

[2] The Chancellery regularly organizes consular missions within the jurisdiction to assist and support French citizens abroad.

The various positions he held in Paris and in the diplomatic field abroad led him to develop a particular interest in the United Nations and the European Union.

[10] On September 15, 1789, Jean-François de La Pérouse dropped anchor in Monterey Bay and then, marking the first official French presence in California.

The explorer collected precious geographic and scientific goods from the region, boasting its "enormous resources" and strategic position.

The French naturalist and botanist, Eugène Duflos de Mofras, was sent to the Pacific coast during the 1840s and published his book in which he depicts a vast region with a population of merely 4,000 people.

[12] The summon of Louis Gasquet as Consul General of Monterey in November 1843, illustrates a type of political offensive by the government of the time.

Refusing to recognize the sovereignty of Sloate and Stockton, established during the American independence from England, Gasquet was imprisoned for 51 days (in reality, a sentinel was placed in front of his home, preventing him from completing his consular mission).

Preserving the interests of his citizens and observing the turbulent behavior of his neighbors, Moernhout created a region favorable to French immigrants.

[14] However, the rapidly growing population (23,000 inhabitants in 1852) enticed the government of President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte to establish the French Consulate in San Francisco, the new economic capital of the region.

The position of Consul General of France in San Francisco was significant because it introduced the most important diplomatic representation in all of the Western United States.

When they arrived in this faraway and unknown region, their first stop was the consulate, to receive information and money to settle and work in the mines.

This troubled period saw the development of a united and dynamic French community that grew each day as a result of boats shipping migrants bound for the "streets to gold".

Gradually, the community organized and founded restaurants, laundries, and theaters near Bush and Mason Street; the French quarter thus developed rapidly.