# Bureau of Consular Affairs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-consular-affairs/  
**Website:** https://travel.state.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 31.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 51.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 29.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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. Advisory data is available for consumption by travel applications and services to help infor...
- **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.
- **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).

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bureau Of Consular Affairs Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Bureau Of Consular Affairs Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Bureau Of Consular Affairs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bureau Of Consular Affairs Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Passports, Travel, Travel Advisories, Visas

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-consular-affairs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.