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 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Datastore API, Discovery API, Write API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Passports, Travel, Travel Advisories, and Visa.
The Bureau of Consular Affairs catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Bureau of Consular Affairs’ developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, and 26 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
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 4
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
CA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore API
OPEN COLLECTIONCA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore Discovery API
OPEN COLLECTIONCA Data Catalog (CKAN) Datastore Write API
OPEN COLLECTIONCA Data Catalog (CKAN) API
OPEN COLLECTIONAgent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Bureau of Consular Affairs API pricing
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Bureau Of Consular Affairs Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Spectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Bureau of Consular Affairs API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 3
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Bureau of Consular Affairs API — frequently asked questions
Does Bureau of Consular Affairs have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Bureau of Consular Affairs, including Bureau of Consular Affairs Data Catalog (CKAN API), Travel Advisories API and Passport Issuance Statistics, and 5 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Bureau of Consular Affairs API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Bureau of Consular Affairs, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Bureau of Consular Affairs API?
Bureau of Consular Affairs uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bureau Of Consular Affairs Authentication.
Is the Bureau of Consular Affairs API ready for AI agents?
Bureau of Consular Affairs has a Kin Score of 34.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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