News from the Consulate General in San Fransisco
April 8, 2020
PM Mitsotakis' message to Greeks living in the USA
https://www.amna.gr/en/article/447544/PM-Mitsotakis-message-to-Greeks-living-in-the-USA?fbclid=IwAR0dkF_wOvd6SzTO4V-adxAdQcJ-MZ3yupdzNT_U_RdjoHKOueh-6Ksy7Ec
March 30, 2020
Article by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, published in the Financial Times: “Turkey’s refugee ‘extortion diplomacy’ must end” (30 March 2020)
From the summer of 2015 until early 2016, the EU faced a massive influx of asylum seekers, most of them fleeing the conflict in Syria. About 1m people entered Europe, most of them from Turkey, by arriving on Greek islands in the Aegean. To address this influx and alleviate the burden, the EU and Turkey […]
March 20, 2020
Urgent Call
The Consulate General of Greece in San Francisco invites Greek citizens wishing to return to Greece, to do so as soon as possible, through available commercial flights. Difficulties in travel from the
March 18, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Information
Due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, as of Monday, March 16th, 2020, the Consulate General of Greece in San Francisco will provide exclusively urgent services and only by appointment (tel. +1415 7752102). The Consulate General of Greece in San Francisco will not be able to host you at our premises unless you have made an […]
December 5, 2019
Census Certificate to be submitted by Greek males born in 2002
ANNOUNCEMENT (for Greek male citizens born in 2002) We would like to inform you that as part of their military duty, all male Greek citizens born in 2002 are requested to present themselves to the competent Greek Consular Posts in order to submit required information regarding national military service. The information must be submitted during […]
October 25, 2019
World War ΙΙ National Holiday
The General Consulate of Greece will remain closed on Monday, October 28th in observance of “World War ΙΙ National Holiday”
July 18, 2019
Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, following his meeting with U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (Washington, 17 July 2019)
This was an important opportunity for me to meet with Senator Menendez and express my thanks and the satisfaction of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and of the Greek government with the Senator’s legislative initiative. We also talked about Greek-American relations and the issues being created by the Turkish provocations against Cyprus and in the Eastern […]
July 18, 2019
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias’ interview in the New York daily ‘National Herald’ (Ethnikos Kirikas) (17 July 2019)
What is the purpose of your visit to the U.S.? I am visiting the U.S. to participate in the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom and to meet with my counterpart, Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor, Mr. Bolton, as well as with prominent members of Congress, such as Senator Bob Menendez. I am certain that, […]
July 18, 2019
Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, to Greek correspondents following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo (Washington, 17 July 2019)
N. DENDIAS: I am pleased that one of my first meetings as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of the new Greek government, the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was with the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. We all know that the close relations between Greece and the United States date back in time, but […]
