Lebanese consulate São Paulo: address, hours, services

The Lebanese consulate in São Paulo (Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo) is at Avenida Paulista 1754, 5th floor, Bela Vista, CEP 01310-200; phone (11) 3262-0604, email sao.lebcg@gmail.com. According to its home page, it is open to the public Monday to Thursday from 8.30am to 12.30pm; Friday morning is for collecting documents only (10.30am – 12.30pm). It covers the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rondônia. Its official website, saopaulo.mfa.gov.lb, could not be reached on 23 October 2026: the opening hours and fees below come from its latest archived pages, so confirm them before you go.

Address, phone, email

Address: Avenida Paulista 1754, Edifício Grande Avenida, 5th floor, conjunto 5B, Bela Vista, CEP 01310-200, São Paulo (SP). The building is between the Trianon-Masp and Consolação metro stations.
Phone: (11) 3262-0604 (main number, also listed by São Paulo City Hall), (11) 3262-0574 and (11) 3283-2021. From abroad: +55 11 3262-0604. A 2022 page also gives (11) 3289-5081.
General email (official matters): sao.lebcg@gmail.com.
Official website: saopaulo.mfa.gov.lb (Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs domain). It could not be reached on 23 October 2026; São Paulo City Hall still lists it as the consulate’s website in its list of 15 October 2026.

Number 1754 or number 688? Many directories still give “Avenida Paulista 688, 16th floor”. That is an old address: in February 2022 the consulate bought its own premises at number 1754; until then it used rented space, also on Avenida Paulista. Number 1754 is the address the consulate has shown since 2022, and the one in São Paulo City Hall’s official list on 15 October 2026.

The consulate sorts requests by department, each with its own email address (“Emails por departamento” page):

Passports: lebpassaportes@gmail.com
Powers of attorney: lebprocuracoes@gmail.com
Civil status (marriage, birth, death, divorce, nationality applications): lebregistros@gmail.com
Visas: lebvistos@gmail.com
Attestations (legalisations): leblegalizacoes@gmail.com
Certificates, declarations, translation of the driving licence (CNH): lebdeclaracao@gmail.com
Payments (finance department): lebfinanceiro@gmail.com
Federal Police, cartórios: lebsecretaria@gmail.com
Office of the consul general: gabinetecgl@gmail.com

Opening hours

Counter: Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 12.30pm (powers of attorney, passports, visas for foreign nationals, attestations, registration of marriages, births and deaths, nationality applications).
Friday: collection of documents only, 10.30am to 12.30pm, no appointment needed. The collection date is on the receipt you get when you apply.
By phone: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 12.30pm, for general information.

These hours come from the home page of the consulate website, in its latest archived version (7 September 2024). Another page of the same website, updated in April 2022, gives opening hours of Monday to Friday. Call before you go, especially on a Friday.

Services and fees

Amounts are in Brazilian reais (R$). They come from the fee schedule published by the consulate, in force from November 2021, and from its service pages archived in 2022. We found no more recent schedule: ask the relevant department for the current amount before you go.

Lebanese passport: apply in person at the consulate; the passport is produced in Lebanon by General Security. Documents: Lebanese identity card (new model) or a recent civil register extract with photo, previous passport, Brazilian document (RNE or protocol), proof of address, four colour photos 4.5 x 3.5 cm on a white background, each original with two copies. Biometric passport: R$1,800 for 5 years; R$3,600 for 10 years, a validity the page reserves for applicants whose previous passport was already biometric. Stated wait time: 60 to 90 days, about 30 days with paid DHL shipping. The consulate advises coming at least three months before the passport expires. If you hold an old “RL” passport, read our alert on RL passports.
Laissez-passer (temporary travel document, one year or less): R$360.
Powers of attorney: drawn up at the consulate, with the person granting the power present, by appointment only, booked by email at lebprocuracoes@gmail.com; the consulate reviews each case by email first. Documents: Lebanese identity card or a recent individual civil register extract or, failing that, a Brazilian identity card (RG) issued less than five years ago with the family civil register extract; a copy of the title deed for a property sale, or of the vehicle document. General power of attorney R$600, special R$300, paid in cash. Authorisation for a minor (passport, visa, travel): R$360. Revocation: R$450. To have the consulate attest a power of attorney signed at a Brazilian cartório, email it before you sign.
Birth registration: form, original Brazilian birth certificate, the father’s family civil register extract (or Lebanese marriage certificate), the mother’s identity document if she is Brazilian (a driving licence is not accepted), each with two copies. The parents’ marriage must be registered first. Fee: R$60 according to the “Nascimento” page; the nationality page says registration is free.
Marriage registration: form, original Brazilian civil marriage certificate, the spouses’ identity documents, two copies of each. Hand it in at the consulate, or send it by post with a stamped envelope addressed to you for the return of the originals. R$60.
Lebanese nationality: according to the consulate, it is passed on through the father (Lebanese father or paternal grandfather), not through the mother. The consulate forwards “recuperação de cidadania” applications to the Lebanese authorities and has published a list of immigrant families who applied to be re-registered between 1952 and 1958. Foreign wife of a Lebanese man: she can apply one year after the marriage is registered in Lebanon, R$300.
Attestations, certificates, translations: attestation of a document translated by a sworn translator R$150; attestation of a Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs signature R$120; certificate of life R$240; translation of a document R$480 per page.
Visas for Lebanon (foreign nationals): single entry R$525, double entry R$750, multiple entry R$1,050. According to the consulate, Brazilians get a free tourist visa on arrival in Lebanon, for one entry and up to 30 days, with a passport valid for at least six months.

Jurisdiction: São Paulo, Rio or Brasília depending on the state

Lebanon has an embassy in Brasília and two consulates general in Brazil, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The Consulate General in São Paulo covers six states: São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rondônia (consulate page, and the embassy’s list of direct lines of July 2020).

State of Rio de Janeiro: Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Goiás and Pará: the embassy lists an honorary consulate there (Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia, Belém).
All other states, including the Federal District: the Embassy of Lebanon in Brasília.

This breakdown comes from the embassy’s page of July 2020; we found no more recent version.

Honorary consulates

An honorary consulate is run by an honorary consul, who is not a career diplomat. It gives guidance, accepts some applications and forwards them; check with it what it can do before you go. Within the São Paulo jurisdiction:

Campinas (SP): Avenida Coronel Silva Teles 977, conjunto 44, Cambuí; (19) 3500-5929; gabinete@chlibano.com.br; Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12.30pm, according to its website. Its services page lists passports, powers of attorney, attestations, visas, consular registration and nationality.
Curitiba (PR): Rua Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão 198, Hauer, CEP 81610-060; (41) 3022-8195; chc.libano@gmail.com, according to the list of the State Government of Paraná.
Campo Grande (MS): (67) 3321-1919, according to the embassy’s list of July 2020.

Appointments, payment, sending by post

Appointments: required for powers of attorney, by email. For other procedures, the website gives walk-in counter hours; email the relevant department first to check the list of documents.
In person: required for a passport and for a power of attorney.
Payment: powers of attorney are paid in cash. The pages we read mention no other means of payment; bring cash and the exact amount.
Copies: each original with two plain copies.
Post: a marriage can be registered by post, with a stamped envelope for the return of the originals. A passport and a power of attorney require you to be there in person.

Has the consulate changed its hours, address or fees? Report it.

Sources

São Paulo City Hall, Municipal Department of International Relations, “Representações internacionais em São Paulo”, list of 15 October 2026 (address, phone, email, website), accessed 23 October 2026.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Departamento” (emails by department, phone numbers), page updated 21 August 2020, captured 3 August 2025 (website unreachable on 23 October 2026).
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, home page (opening hours), captured 7 September 2024.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Localização e Horário de Funcionamento”, updated 19 April 2022, captured 14 June 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Fale conosco”, captured 24 May 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Aviso a Comunidade Libanesa” (jurisdiction), updated 1 June 2018, captured 24 May 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Aviso – Taxas consulares”, fee schedule from November 2021, captured 26 May 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Emissão de passaporte”, captured 21 June 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Procurações”, captured 24 May 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Nascimento”, captured 21 June 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Registro de casamento”, captured 21 June 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Recuperação da cidadania libanesa”, captured 24 May 2022.
Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo, “Cidadania por cônjuge libanês”, captured 21 June 2022.
Embassy of Lebanon in Brazil, “Aviso importante” (direct lines by state), updated 14 July 2020, captured 22 September 2020.
ANBA (news agency of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce), “Lebanese Consulate in São Paulo now has own headquarters”, 11 February 2022, accessed 23 October 2026.
State Government of Paraná, Casa Civil, “Relações internacionais” (consulates in Curitiba), undated, accessed 23 October 2026.
Honorary Consulate of Lebanon in Campinas, “Contato” and “Serviços”, undated, accessed 23 October 2026.

Checked on 23.10.2026.

Lebanese consulate in São Paulo: address, opening hours, services and contacts