British consulate in Columbia, Maryland

Columbia is not one of the nine places where the UK keeps a consular office in the United States. From Columbia to the British Embassy in Washington it is 25 miles by road, close to 50 min.

This page is about Columbia, Maryland. Columbia, Missouri, is covered by the British Consulate General in Chicago; Columbia, South Carolina, is covered by the British Consulate General in Atlanta.

Which British consulate covers Columbia, Maryland?

On gov.uk, Maryland appears in the list of states covered by the British Embassy in Washington.

A British consulate here does not renew passports or issue visas: gov.uk says so on each office page. At the British Embassy in Washington you go in for an emergency travel document or a notarial appointment.

British Embassy Washington

UK visa biometrics near Columbia, Maryland

For UK visa biometrics, the closest center to Columbia on VFS Global's list is in Washington, District of Columbia, open Monday to Friday, roughly 23 miles as the crow flies.

A British passport holder does not need a visa center: it exists for people applying for UK visas.

Nearby cities and their consulate

Baltimore, 14 miles away, covered by Washington, D.C.

Bowie, 15 miles away, covered by Washington, D.C.

Silver Spring, 18 miles away, covered by Washington, D.C.

Rockville, 18 miles away, covered by Washington, D.C.

What you can settle from Columbia without going

Some of it can be done tonight, from a laptop.

You can renew an adult British passport online with HM Passport Office, which sends it back by courier: Passport renewal.

You can apply for a first passport for a child born in the U.S., and your countersignatory may hold a U.S. passport: First or child passport.

You can cancel a lost or stolen passport online before you replace it: Lost or stolen passport.

Not an official website. We collect what the British offices publish, including the places where their own pages disagree, and point you back to the source.