British Passport Los Angeles

Los Angeles is America’s second most populous city after New York. Greater Los Angeles—which includes Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, Ventura County, and Orange County—has a population of nearly 19 million people. Known for its endless sprawl (and endless freeways), Greater Los Angeles is the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area and includes over 200 cities such as Santa Monica, Pasadena, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Burbank, Long Beach, Irvine, Anaheim, Oxnard, and Huntington Beach.

Los Angeles, known as the “City of Angels”, is the largest city in the state of California. California was originally claimed by Spain, and the town of Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers in 1781 and was a part Mexico until the United States gained control in 1848. Due to this history, Mexican culture is firmly established throughout Greater Los Angeles. This is a very diverse region, however, and is home to people from more than 140 countries, including at least 250,000 citizens of the United Kingdom.

If Greater Los Angeles were its own country (which in many ways it does seem like its own country) it would be the 15th largest economy in the world, just ahead of Mexico and Indonesia. The motion picture industry is what made Los Angeles the city that it is today and has attracted millions of people over the years seeking their fame and fortune, including legendary British actors and directors such as Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, and Elizabeth Taylor, along with modern celebrities like Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay, among countless others. Los Angeles is also an important city for music and is home to several record labels and iconic music venues.

Known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”, Los Angeles receives over 50 million tourists each year, including 385,000 yearly visitors from the United Kingdom, making tourism an important part of the local economy. Of course, Greater Los Angeles is so much more than movies, beaches, and sunshine: it is America’s largest manufacturing hub and makes clothing, furniture, food, media publications, chemicals and petroleum, aerospace, bioscience, and various technology products. It is also a financial and transportation center, as well as an important city for healthcare and medical research.

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)—the city’s primary international airport—is the country’s second busiest airport (after Atlanta) and third busiest in the world (after Atlanta and Beijing). There are nonstop flights to London Heathrow on British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, and United Airlines. Virgin Atlantic also offers seasonal nonstop service to Manchester, and Norwegian Air offers nonstop service to London-Gatwick. Other airports in the Greater Los Angeles area with commercial airline service include Ontario International Airport, Hollywood Burbank Airport, Long Beach Airport, and John Wayne Airport.

Los Angeles is home to one of eight British consulates in the United States, providing services to British nationals in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Utah, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. If you are a British national and require urgent assistance, you can reach the consulate by calling +1 310 789 0031. The British consulate in Los Angeles can also provide an emergency passport if you are stuck abroad and need to return quickly to the United Kingdom.

Here is their physical address:

British Consulate General Los Angeles

2029 Century Park East, Suite 1350
Los Angeles CA 90067
USA

For those U.K. citizens or other British nationals that live in the United States and require a new 10-year British passport, you must apply online through the U.K. government website.

If you have difficulty applying online for a British passport and require assistance with this process, please give our office a call or schedule an appointment with our company. We are a private agency in the United States providing British passport services to U.K citizens living in North America. Our number one goal is to ensure your application documents for a passport are submitted accurately to Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the United Kingdom. Our services eliminate delays and give you the peace of mind to focus on your travel plans.

We provide the following British passport services for our customers: