What U.S. Consuls Can Do for you:

• Issue, renew or replace your U.S. passport.
• Provide you with information on U.S. citizenship matters;
• Register the birth abroad of your U.S. citizen children.
• Notarize your documents and signature for use in the U.S.
• Inform you on how to legalize documents.
• Inform you on how to obtain vital records or criminal records.
• Provide income tax federal forms.
• Provide information on Social Security matters.
• Provide information and federal forms on voting matters.
• Help you to call your parents and them to communicate with you.
• Help you to get money from home.
• Assist you with repatriation, if you are destitute.
• Give a list of attorneys, doctors and others.
• Help you in case of death of relative in Spain.
• Visit you in jail to assure the protection of your civil and human rights.

What U.S. Consuls Cannot Do for you:

• Act as interpreters/translators.
• Act as travel agents, make hotel or plane reservations for you.
• Act as your attorney or give legal advice.
• Cash your Social Security, Veterans Administration, Civil Service, personal checks or Savings Bonds.
• Fill out Income Tax forms for you or give you information on your income tax problems.
• Find employment for you.
• Furnish bail.
• Get you out of jail.
• Intervene in disputes with shops, landlords, hotel managers or others.
• Obtain visas, arrange residency or work permits or driver’s licenses.
• Pay bills, telephone charges or lend you money.
• Perform a marriage ceremony.
• Receive mail or packages for you.
• Renew or replace documents issued by state authorities.
• Safeguard wills or valuables or act as a mailbox for you.
• Search for your missing luggage.
• Witness your marriage.