Bangladesh, Circus Ave (Just E of AJC Bose Rd), ☎ +91 33 2290 5208, +91 33 2290 5209 (After hours +91 33 2288 6536, fax: +91 33-2288-1616). Issues 15-day visas. Applications are received at window #4 M-F from 9AM-11AM, and visas are generally ready the next afternoon. Bring 3 passport photos. �
China, EC-72, Sector I, Salt Lake City, ☎ +91 33 4004 8169 (, fax: +91 33 4004 8168), . M-F 10AM-12:30PM. �
France, 26 Park Mansions, Park St. �
Germany, 1 Hastings Park Rd, Alipore, ☎ +91 33 2479 1141, +91 33 2479 1142, +91 33 2479 2150 (+91 33 2439 8906, fax: +91 33 4004 8168). The origins of the German consulate in Kolkata can be traced to before the existence of Germany itself, to the establishment of the consulate of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1851 and the Consulate of Prussia in 1854. �
Japan, 55, M. N. Sen Lane, Tollygunge, ☎ +91 33 2421-1970 (fax: +91 33 2421-1971), . �
United Kingdom, 1A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, ☎ +91 33 2288 5173~76 (After hours +91 33 2288 6536, fax: +91 33 2288-1616). �
United States, 5/1, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, ☎ +91 33 3984 2400 (, fax: +91 33-2282 2335), . It is the oldest diplomatic post of the U.S. in India, and the second oldest in the world (the oldest being in London). Benjamin Joy was appointed the first American Consul to Kolkata by George Washington in 1792, upon the express recommendation of then- Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson. (Note that the ironic address was the result of a diplomatic snub by the then Marxist Bengal government during the period of the U.S. war in Indochina.) �
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