Bureau of Consular Affairs

The Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) is a bureau of the United States Department of State responsible for administering laws, formulating regulations, and implementing policies related to consular services and immigration. CA provides travel advisories, passport and visa information, and publishes datasets through its data catalog accessible via the CKAN API.

Bureau of Consular Affairs publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Datastore API, Discovery API, and Write API. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Passports, Travel, Travel Advisories, and Visas.

Bureau of Consular Affairs’ developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, and 25 more developer resources.

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Federal-Government Passports TravelTravel AdvisoriesVisas

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Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 8.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

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Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bureau of Consular Affairs Data Catalog (CKAN API)

The CA Data Catalog provides access to datasets from the Bureau of Consular Affairs via the CKAN API. It includes passport issuance statistics, visa issuance data, adoption stat...

Travel Advisories API

The State Department publishes travel advisory levels (Level 1-4) for every country. The machine-readable surface is an ArcGIS Online Feature Service on the bureau's own Esri te...

Passport Issuance Statistics

Annual and monthly passport issuance statistics published by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, available as downloadable datasets through the CA data catalog.

Embassy and Consulate Locations

Public ArcGIS Feature Service listing every U.S. embassy, consulate general, consular agency and virtual presence post, with address, telephone, after-hours emergency telephone,...

Intercountry Adoption Statistics

Intercountry and U.S. adoption counts published as ArcGIS Feature Services. The bureau publishes roughly fifty of these — one per year from 1999 through 2022, for both intercoun...

Bureau of Consular Affairs Datastore API

Datastore queries over tabular resources.

Bureau of Consular Affairs Discovery API

Read-only discovery actions (packages, groups, organizations, tags).

Bureau of Consular Affairs Write API

Write actions (require API token).

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Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

CA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore API

OPEN COLLECTION

CA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore Discovery API

OPEN COLLECTION

CA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore Write API

OPEN COLLECTION

CA Data Catalog (CKAN) API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Bureau Of Consular Affairs Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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Bureau Of Consular Affairs Agentic Access

18 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

About

About

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CKAN API

Statistics

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

RSS

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-consular-affairs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Bureau of Consular Affairs
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Passports
- Travel
- Travel Advisories
- Visas
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Passports
- Travel
- Travel Advisories
- Visas
type: Index
kind: government
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bureau-of-consular-affairs.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-11-25'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Consuming
description: The Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) is a bureau of the United States Department of State responsible for administering
  laws, formulating regulations, and implementing policies related to consular services and immigration. CA provides travel
  advisories, passport and visa information, and publishes datasets through its data catalog accessible via the CKAN API.
apis:
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:ca-data-catalog-ckan-api
  name: Bureau of Consular Affairs Data Catalog (CKAN API)
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Data Catalog
  - Federal-Government
  - Open Data
  tags_raw:
  - CKAN
  - Data Catalog
  - Federal Government
  - Open Data
  humanURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/
  baseURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action
  properties:
  - url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/dataset/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3
    type: DataAPI
  description: The CA Data Catalog provides access to datasets from the Bureau of Consular Affairs via the CKAN API. It includes
    passport issuance statistics, visa issuance data, adoption statistics, and other consular affairs data. The CKAN API supports
    dataset search, retrieval, and resource downloads.
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:travel-advisories
  name: Travel Advisories API
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Travel
  - Travel Advisories
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Travel
  - Travel Advisories
  humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
  baseURL: https://services6.arcgis.com/R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs/arcgis/rest/services/Travel_Advisory_Levels__(2024)_View_Layer/FeatureServer
  properties:
  - url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-layer.json
    type: ArcGIS
  - url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-featureserver.json
    type: ArcGIS
  - url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
    type: RSS
  - url: https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/
    type: Application
  - url: skills/bureau-of-consular-affairs-check-travel-advisory.md
    type: AgentSkill
  description: 'The State Department publishes travel advisory levels (Level 1-4) for every country. The machine-readable
    surface is an ArcGIS Online Feature Service on the bureau''s own Esri tenant (R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs): one polygon per country
    carrying LEVEL_ (1-4), the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, the advisory date and the URL of the human advisory page. Anonymous,
    no key, capabilities Query, maxRecordCount 2000. A dated RSS feed of the same advisories is published at travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
    (216 items observed 2026-09-05) and is the only change signal the bureau offers. baseURL was https://travel.state.gov,
    the website root, which named no API host; corrected 2026-09-05 to the Feature Service that actually answers.'
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:passport-issuance-statistics
  name: Passport Issuance Statistics
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Passports
  - Statistics
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Passports
  - Statistics
  humanURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/dataset/passportstatistics
  baseURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action
  properties:
  - url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/dataset/passportstatistics
    type: DataAPI
  - url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/dataset/passportstatistics
    type: Documentation
  description: Annual and monthly passport issuance statistics published by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, available as downloadable
    datasets through the CA data catalog.
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:embassy-and-consulate-locations
  name: Embassy and Consulate Locations
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Consular Services
  - Embassies
  - Geospatial
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Consular Services
  - Embassies
  - Geospatial
  humanURL: https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/bureau-of-consular-affairs/
  baseURL: https://services6.arcgis.com/R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs/arcgis/rest/services/Embassy_and_Consulate_Locations_View_Layer/FeatureServer
  properties:
  - url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-embassy-consulate-locations-layer.json
    type: ArcGIS
  - url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-embassy-consulate-locations-featureserver.json
    type: ArcGIS
  - url: skills/bureau-of-consular-affairs-find-embassy.md
    type: AgentSkill
  description: Public ArcGIS Feature Service listing every U.S. embassy, consulate general, consular agency and virtual presence
    post, with address, telephone, after-hours emergency telephone, email, website and a prebuilt directions link. Carries
    ConSvcProv, which names the post that actually provides consular services for a location — not necessarily the nearest
    one. Country is keyed on GENC3 (the U.S. Government GENC code), not ISO 3166-1, so joining posts to travel advisories
    needs a crosswalk the bureau does not publish. Anonymous, no key.
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:intercountry-adoption-statistics
  name: Intercountry Adoption Statistics
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Adoption
  - Statistics
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Adoption
  - Statistics
  humanURL: https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/bureau-of-consular-affairs/
  baseURL: https://services6.arcgis.com/R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs/arcgis/rest/services/All_Years_Adoption_Statistics/FeatureServer
  properties:
  - url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-intercountry-adoption-statistics-featureserver.json
    type: ArcGIS
  description: Intercountry and U.S. adoption counts published as ArcGIS Feature Services. The bureau publishes roughly fifty
    of these — one per year from 1999 through 2022, for both intercountry adoptions and U.S. adoptions, alongside All-Years
    rollups. The year is encoded in the SERVICE NAME rather than in a field, so building a time series means enumerating services
    rather than filtering one.
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:bureau-of-consular-affairs-datastore-api
  name: Bureau of Consular Affairs Datastore API
  description: Datastore queries over tabular resources.
  humanURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/
  baseURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action
  tags:
  - Datastore
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-datastore-api-openapi.yml
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api
  name: Bureau of Consular Affairs Discovery API
  description: Read-only discovery actions (packages, groups, organizations, tags).
  humanURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/
  baseURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-openapi.yml
- aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:bureau-of-consular-affairs-write-api
  name: Bureau of Consular Affairs Write API
  description: Write actions (require API token).
  humanURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/
  baseURL: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Write
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-write-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bureau-of-consular-affairs-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bureau-of-consular-affairs-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bureau-of-consular-affairs-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bureau-of-consular-affairs
- type: Website
  url: https://travel.state.gov/
- type: Portal
  url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/privacy-policy.html
- type: CKAN API
  url: https://cadatacatalog.state.gov/api/3/action/package_list
- type: Statistics
  url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics.html
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bureau-of-consular-affairs-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bureau-of-consular-affairs-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bureau-of-consular-affairs-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bureau-of-consular-affairs-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/bureau-of-consular-affairs-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bureau-of-consular-affairs-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bureau-of-consular-affairs-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/bureau-of-consular-affairs-datastore-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/bureau-of-consular-affairs-write-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bureau-of-consular-affairs-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bureau-of-consular-affairs-rate-limits.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bureau-of-consular-affairs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-diplomatic-technology/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: About
  url: https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/bureau-of-consular-affairs/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.state.gov/copyright-information
- type: RSS
  url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v3

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