Guatemalan Mobile Consulates (Consulados Móviles): What They Do and How to Find Yours

The programme almost nobody explains from the source

If you live in a US city with no Guatemalan consulate, your paperwork does not depend on your consulate’s calendar — it depends on when that consulate travels to you. That programme is called Consulados Móviles, and its calendar does exist. It just lives in a PDF inside a Cloudflare-protected site, nearly invisible to search engines. The result is that the first answers Google returns tend to be unsourced aggregators while the official document sits buried.

In short: A mobile consulate is a travelling session: staff from a permanent consulate go for one to three days to a city with no consular post. MINEX lists the services as data capture for passport and DPI, the consular ID card (issuance suspended since January 2026, per Prensa Libre), birth and death registration, and consular assistance and protection. Its communiqués assume an appointment, and state that “the appointment is free”. The calendar is a PDF on the MINEX site that does not publish the venue address — you get that from the organising consulate. For November 2026, MINEX scheduled 20 sessions (November 7-22) — 19 in the US and one in Canada (Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador). As of November 2, 2026, the calendar file has no December block yet.

A mobile consulate is not a Saturday opening

The two programmes are constantly confused. Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (AGN), the state news agency, describes them differently while reporting MINEX’s figures on December 17, 2025. The quoted wording is AGN’s, not a direct quote from MINEX:

Those November 2025 figures come from the same communiqué: 26,768 services that month across both programmes.

What you can actually process at a session

MINEX listed the services when announcing the July 25-26, 2026 sessions (via AGN, July 27, 2026):

Other official communiqués add, in different wording: authentications and “identification documents” (Diario de Centro América, May 18, 2026), and issuance of birth certificates, civil registry via consulate and migration legal guidance and consular protection (MINEX, via AGN, March 26, 2026).

Watch the verb. For passports and DPIs, MINEX writes data capture — fingerprints, photograph, biometric enrolment. None of the MINEX publications cited here states that a passport or DPI is handed over the same day at a mobile session. The instrument that would settle it — a per-session service list — does not exist in the published calendar. Confirm with the organising consulate how and where you will receive the document.

What MINEX does not publish

This is the most useful thing on this page, because it is what no aggregator admits:

How the calendar is really announced

The MINEX PDF carries this note, verbatim:

“Nota importante: Las fechas y ubicaciones pueden cambiar de acuerdo con la programación y coordinación logística de cada Oficina Consular. Estar pendiente de las actualizaciones en la página oficial: www.minex.gob.gt y en las redes sociales de cada Oficina Consular.”

(Important note: dates and locations may change according to each Consular Office’s scheduling and logistical coordination. Watch for updates on the official page www.minex.gob.gt and on each Consular Office’s social media.)

Diario de Centro América repeats it when announcing sessions: “Dates and locations can be consulted at www.minex.gob.gt and the social media of each consulate” (May 18, 2026). MINEX adds three warnings in its communiqués (via AGN, December 17, 2025):

• “La cita es gratuita. No permita que intermediarios le cobren por el servicio” — the appointment is free; do not let intermediaries charge you.
• “Por seguridad, no comparta sus documentos personales” — do not share your personal documents.
• “Consulte las redes sociales del consulado más cercano a su residencia” — check the social media of the consulate nearest you. MINEX stresses that “the only official information is what MINEX consulates themselves produce”.

November 2026: the 20 scheduled sessions

Read from “Consulados Móviles en los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá 2026”, published by MINEX (file dated October 29, 2026), read in a browser on November 2, 2026. The file lists November as the latest month and has no December block yet. Host cities are as MINEX prints them; we translated state names (MINEX writes “Carolina del Sur”, “Nueva York”, “Nuevo México”).

⚠️ Confirm before you travel. The MINEX calendar gives no venue address, hours or service list for any session, and its own note says dates and locations may change. The address and any instructions come from the organising consulate in each row.

Two things stand out: Chicago runs two sessions (Aurora on Thursday the 12th, Grand Rapids on the 20th-21st), and the programme is not US-only — Montreal travels to Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Earlier months: September 2026 had 7 sessions (including Puerto Rico and Múnich, Germany); August had 19.

Fake mobile-consulate flyers are circulating

On October 15, 2026 the Consulate General of Guatemala in New York posted a flyer announcing a “Consulado Móvil de Guatemala” in Louisville, Kentucky, stamped FALSO (fake). The consulate’s message: the MINEX consular network “atiende SIN CITA y no trabaja con intermediarios ni solicita información personal en línea” — it serves without appointment, does not work with intermediaries and does not ask for personal information online. The Chicago consulate posted the same warning.

What makes this one dangerous is that the fake reuses real details: it prints MINEX’s real appointment-portal address and the real phone number of the Columbus, Ohio consulate. A familiar link or phone number on a flyer proves nothing. Two checks that do:

1. Is the city and date in the MINEX calendar (the table above, or the PDF itself)?
2. Does the organising consulate’s own page announce it?

Louisville does not appear in MINEX’s November 2026 calendar.

Stamford: completed mobile-consulate visits

MINEX’s release dated 20 April 2026 lists Stamford, Connecticut among the cities visited during that month’s completed mobile-consulate sessions, with the Riverhead, New York consulate as organiser (read 28 October 2026).

AGN also lists Stamford among the completed visits in its August 2026 report (read 28 October 2026). Both references describe past visits. For a later session, the calendar and organising consulate’s announcement remain the channels described above.

How big the programme is

All figures are MINEX’s, published through state media. Where the breakdown does not add up to the total, we say so.

None of the official sources cited here gives a monthly total for January, March or July 2026.

Two cautions about these numbers, both checkable in the same articles:

• The breakdowns do not close. In November 2025 the published categories sum to 16,562 of 18,359 services; in June 2026, 7,699 of 8,267. MINEX does not itemise the remainder.
• The February 2026 breakdown never mentions passports, even though passport data capture is the largest category in every other published month. MINEX gives no explanation, so we do not supply one.

Two arms of the same state publish figures that do not reconcile

Diario de Centro América reported on July 14, 2026 that mobile consulates “have benefited 2,736,222 Guatemalans during President Bernardo Arévalo’s administration”, with 1,484,091 in 2024 and 1,234,357 in 2025. AGN, by contrast, reported on January 22, 2025 that the programme served 68,454 people across 167 sessions from January to November 2024 — roughly 20 times fewer.

The third figure in that same DCA piece (17,774 for the first four months of 2026) is at least the same order of magnitude as the monthly series, unlike the annual ones — but it does not reconcile either: February (5,912) and April (11,988) alone already total 17,900, and no January or March total is published. It also does not measure the same thing: DCA counts Guatemalans benefited, while the monthly series counts services delivered, and one person can receive several. No public instrument reconciles either annual figure, so we report both and work from the monthly series, which is the one published with a breakdown.

If your city is not on the list

• Check which consulate covers you in the state-by-state lookup — the session is organised by your consulate, not by MINEX headquarters.
• Follow that consulate’s official social media: it is the channel MINEX itself points to for address and hours.
• If you need a passport or a DPI and would rather not wait for a session, the full processes are in Guatemalan passport from the USA and DPI from the USA.
• If your city does have a consulate and you only need a Saturday, the other programme is the one for you: Saturday consular openings 2026.

Sources

• Prensa Libre — Sin fecha para reanudar el trámite de la tarjeta consular en EE. UU. — July 14, 2026; read 5 November 2026. TICG suspension since January 2026.
• MINEX — completed mobile-consulate visits, including Stamford and Riverhead — April 20, 2026; read 28 October 2026.
• AGN — completed mobile-consulate visits in August, including Stamford — read 28 October 2026.
• “Consulados Móviles en los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá 2026” — MINEX. PDF: https://www.minex.gob.gt/adj/2026/10/adj_1556.pdf (file dated October 29, 2026) — read in a browser on November 2, 2026. Source of the November 2026 calendar.
• Consulate General of Guatemala in New York — “#NoTeDejesEngañar”, fake Louisville flyer — Facebook, October 15, 2026; read November 2, 2026.
• “Consulados Móviles en los Estados Unidos de América 2026” — Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala (MINEX). Earlier PDF: https://www.minex.gob.gt/adj/2026/9/adj_1556.pdf · page: https://www.minex.gob.gt/din/25-consulados-moviles-y-sabados-consulares — retrieved August 11 and August 28, 2026 (MINEX re-uploads the same PDF name with the current month; the /2026/8/ path replaced /2026/7/). Source of the September 2026 calendar and of the “Nota importante” quoted verbatim.
• “Minex acercó servicios a guatemaltecos mediante Consulados Móviles en EE. UU. y México” — Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (AGN), July 27, 2026: https://agn.gt/minex-acerco-servicios-a-guatemaltecos-mediante-consulados-moviles-en-ee-uu-y-mexico/ — retrieved August 11, 2026. Service list and the instruction to arrive 15 minutes before your appointment.
• “Minex brindó más de 26 mil servicios en Consulados Móviles y Sábados Consulares en noviembre 2025” — AGN, December 17, 2025: https://agn.gt/minex-brindo-mas-de-26-mil-servicios-en-consulados-moviles-y-sabados-consulares-en-noviembre-2025/ — retrieved August 11, 2026. Definitions of both programmes, November 2025 breakdown, and the warnings about intermediaries.
• “Minex brindó más 5 mil servicios en jornadas de Consulados Móviles en EE. UU.” — AGN, March 26, 2026: https://agn.gt/minex-brindo-mas-5-mil-servicios-en-jornadas-de-consulados-moviles-en-ee-uu/ — retrieved August 11, 2026. February 2026 figures and host cities.
• “Consulados móviles de Guatemala brindaron cerca de 12 mil servicios durante abril” — AGN, May 19, 2026: https://agn.gt/consulados-moviles-de-guatemala-brindaron-cerca-de-12-mil-servicios-durante-abril/ — retrieved August 11, 2026.
• “Más de 68 mil guatemaltecos atendidos en los Consulados Móviles del 2024” — AGN, January 22, 2025: https://agn.gt/mas-de-68-mil-guatemaltecos-atendidos-en-los-consulados-moviles-del-2024/ — retrieved August 11, 2026.
• “MINEX realizará 12 Consulados Móviles en EE. UU. del 14 al 17 de mayo de 2026” — Diario de Centro América (DCA), May 18, 2026: https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/minex-realizara-12-consulados-moviles-en-ee-uu-del-14-al-17-de-mayo-de-2026/ — retrieved August 11, 2026.
• “MINEX realiza 21 jornadas de Consulado Móvil en EE. UU. y atiende a 11,749 connacionales en mayo” — DCA, June 15, 2026: https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/minex-realiza-21-jornadas-de-consulado-movil-en-ee-uu-y-atiende-a-11749-connacionales-en-mayo/ — retrieved August 11, 2026.
• “Consulados móviles en EE. UU. ofrecen más de 8,000 servicios durante junio 2026” — DCA, July 13, 2026: https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/consulados-moviles-en-ee-uu-ofrece-mas-de-8000-servicios-durante-junio-2026/ — retrieved August 11, 2026.
• “Destacan logros de consulados móviles” — DCA, July 14, 2026: https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/destacan-logros-de-consulados-moviles/ — retrieved August 11, 2026. Source of the annual figures that do not reconcile.

This page reports what MINEX publishes. It is not legal or immigration advice.