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Lebanese consulate in Montreal: address, opening hours and services
- Local name
- القنصلية العامة في مونتريال
- Type
- Consulate General
- Actual role
- Takes passport and travel document applications, sent to Lebanon where General Security produces passports.
Registers births, marriages, divorces and deaths, and sends them to Lebanon.
Draws up and legalises powers of attorney, undertakings and wills.
Translates, authenticates and legalises documents; issues civil status extracts, police clearance certificates and proof of life certificates.
Issues visas for Lebanon. - Who it serves
- Lebanese nationals living in the province of Quebec; foreign nationals living in Quebec who apply for a visa for Lebanon.
- How to contact it
- 40 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Quebec) H2V 2A2
Phone: (514) 276-2638 or (514) 276-2639
Fax: (514) 276-0090
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 2 pm, by appointment booked by phone
Embassy in Ottawa: 640 Lyon Street South, K1S 3Z5, (613) 236-5825 - What it does not do
- Does not produce passports: General Security does so in Lebanon.
Does not draw up Lebanese civil status records: it sends them to Lebanon.
Does not, in principle, handle applications from residents of other provinces: embassy in Ottawa or honorary consulates.
Offers no known online booking: you have to phone.
The Lebanese consulate in Montreal (Consulate General) is at 40 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Quebec) H2V 2A2, in Outremont, on (514) 276-2638 or (514) 276-2639. According to the Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, it is open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 2 pm, covers the province of Quebec and asks you to phone for an appointment before coming.
Fees follow the schedule shared by the embassy in Ottawa, the Consulate General and the honorary consulates, in force since 1 March 2026 (for example CAD 41 for a one-year passport). The consulate’s own website was not responding on 23.10.2026: the phone remains the most reliable channel.
Address, phone and opening hours
- Address: 40 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Quebec) H2V 2A2 (Outremont).
- Phone: (514) 276-2638 or (514) 276-2639. Fax: (514) 276-0090 (Government of Quebec directory).
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 2 pm, according to the embassy’s page. Closing days (Lebanese and Canadian public holidays) are not published by any readable official source: phone before going.
- Area covered: the province of Quebec.
- Email: the embassy gives info@consulibanmontreal.org. On 23.10.2026, the domain of this address was not responding; we could not confirm that messages get through. Use the phone, and keep a written record of your procedures.
- Social media: the embassy lists the consulate’s Facebook page (consulatlibanmontreal) as its website; we could not read it without an account.
Services provided
The consulate’s former website (last update shown: 13.03.2023) and the embassy’s pages describe the same groups of procedures:
- Lebanese passports and travel documents for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: the consulate takes the application; the passport is produced in Lebanon by General Security.
- Civil status: registration of births, marriages, divorces and deaths, sent to Lebanon. Registering a birth, marriage or death is free.
- Powers of attorney and notarial acts (general or special power of attorney, cancellation, undertakings, wills). The embassy confirms that the Consulate General in Montreal handles powers of attorney.
- Translation and legalisation of documents, civil status extracts, police clearance certificates, proof of life certificates.
- Visas for Lebanon and travel consent for minors.
- Formalities for moving belongings, cars and pets to Lebanon.
If your passport number starts with “RL”, first read what changed on 1 October 2026.
Fees: the same schedule as in Ottawa
According to its heading, the schedule published by the embassy applies to the embassy in Ottawa, the Consulate General in Montreal and the honorary consulates in Calgary, Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver, from 1 March 2026. Amounts in Canadian dollars:
- Passport, issue or renewal for 1 year: $41; 5 years: $205; 10 years (biometric only): $405.
- General power of attorney: $135 per grantor; special power of attorney: $70; cancellation of a power of attorney: $105.
- Undertakings, guarantees and other obligations: $170 per signature; will: $170.
- Authentication of documents or statements: $81; school certificate: free.
- Legalisation of the signature of the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: $30.
- Translation (identity card, civil status documents, Lebanese driving licence): $110 per page.
- Civil status extract or police clearance: $81; proof of life certificate: $55.
- Visa: single entry $120, double entry $170, multiple entry $240.
- Application for Lebanese nationality through marriage: $70; divorce registration: $85.
- Registration of a birth, marriage or death, transport of remains to Lebanon: free.
At the embassy, you pay in cash at the counter (exact amount) and by money order or certified cheque by post. The payment method accepted in Montreal is not published: ask when you book.
Booking an appointment or turning up
- For the Montreal consulate as for the honorary consulates, the embassy asks you to phone for an appointment before coming, so that the file can be dealt with on the day.
- No online booking system for the Montreal consulate was found.
- Passport: the consulate’s former website also described an express DHL option (the FastTrack service linked to the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs): shipping paid online, on top of the passport fee, then the file is handed in at the consulate. For its own files, the embassy states at least three months by diplomatic bag and up to two months by DHL. The current wait time in Montreal is not published.
- Power of attorney: in person, the embassy asks for a Lebanese identity document (identity card, civil status extract or passport) and, for some powers of attorney (property, general, marriage and divorce), two witnesses; a medical report is required if the grantor is 70 or over.
Montreal or Ottawa: who does what
- The Consulate General in Montreal serves residents of Quebec.
- The embassy, at 640 Lyon Street South, Ottawa (Ontario) K1S 3Z5, phone (613) 236-5825, open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 3 pm, handles applications from the other provinces, at the counter or by post.
- Honorary consulates (Toronto, with an address in Pickering; Calgary; Vancouver, with an address in Port Moody; Halifax) apply the same fees, can take powers of attorney and, according to the embassy, witness the signature of the passport form. Contact details are on the embassy’s page.
- By post, the embassy accepts a power of attorney signed before a notary and then legalised by the provincial authority; for Quebec, it refers to the Chambre des notaires.
If the consulate’s website does not respond
On 23.10.2026, montreal.mfa.gov.lb was not responding over http or https, from France. The other official channels:
- The Embassy of Lebanon in Canada’s page: address, phone numbers, hours and area covered by the Montreal consulate and the honorary consulates.
- The embassy’s consular services: forms (passport, opening a file, visa) and the 2026 fee schedule.
- The Government of Quebec’s directory of foreign representations (in French) (updated 22.10.2026): address, phone and fax numbers of the consulate.
- The embassy itself: (613) 236-5825, info@lebanonembassy.ca.
Sources
- Government of Quebec, Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie, “Représentations étrangères : Liban” (in French), updated 22 October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026.
- Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, “Consulates of Lebanon in Canada” (address, hours, area covered), accessed 23 October 2026.
- Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, consular fee schedule in Canadian dollars from 1 March 2026, document dated 27 February 2026, accessed 23 October 2026.
- Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, “Power of Attorney”, accessed 23 October 2026.
- Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, “Passport”, accessed 23 October 2026.
- Embassy of Lebanon in Canada, “Consular Services” (embassy hours), accessed 23 October 2026.
- Consulate General of Lebanon in Montreal, former website montreal.mfa.gov.lb (in French; archived on 13 September 2024, last update shown 13 March 2023); website unreachable on 23 October 2026.
Checked on 23.10.2026.