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Royal Thai Embassy in Ottawa

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Overview

The Royal Thai Embassy in Ottawa is Thailand's diplomatic mission to Canada, located on Island Park Drive. The embassy also covers 11 Caribbean and Atlantic nations including Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago. Thailand maintains a Consulate-General in Vancouver covering British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon. A Thai Trade Centre operates in Toronto. Honorary consulates-general in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary are currently closed until further notice.

Visa Services

Canadian citizens can enter Thailand visa-free for 60 days. The Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) is mandatory since May 2025. All visa applications must be submitted online via thaievisa.go.th. Visa email: visa@thaiembassy.ca.

Consular Services

The embassy provides visa processing, Thai passport and ID services (passport@thaiembassy.ca), document authentication and legalisation, police clearance certificates, and consular assistance. Emergency line for Thai nationals: +1 613 853 2650. Consular email: consular@thaiembassy.ca.

Service Area

The embassy covers Canada (except British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon — served by the Consulate-General in Vancouver) plus 11 Caribbean nations. A Thai Trade Centre operates in Toronto (31 Gloucester Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1L8, +1 416 921 5400).

Appointment Information

The chancery at 180 Island Park Drive keeps full-day counters: Monday to Friday, 09:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00, closed on public holidays — generous by Thai-mission standards, where mornings-only is the norm. Enquiries route by mailbox: contact@thaiembassy.ca (general), visa@thaiembassy.ca (visas — applications themselves are online-only), consular@thaiembassy.ca (legalisation and consular matters), passport@thaiembassy.ca (Thai passports and ID). Switchboard +1 613 722 4444; emergency line for Thai nationals +1 613 853 2650.

Special Notes

The honorary consulates-general in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary are closed until further notice — Ottawa and Vancouver are the only working Thai posts in Canada. Visa applications are online-only via the e-Visa portal; the counters serve Thai-national and legalisation work.

Frequently asked questions

Not for stays up to 60 days — Canadian passports ride the visa exemption for tourism and short business trips. The Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) is mandatory for everyone since May 2025, registered free online within three days before arrival. Longer stays go through the e-Visa portal thaievisa.go.th, with the Ottawa embassy processing applications from eastern and central Canada.

Ottawa covers everything except British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon, which belong to the Consulate-General in Vancouver. The honorary consulates-general in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary are closed until further notice, so those two posts are the whole network.

Monday to Friday, 09:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00, closed on public holidays, at 180 Island Park Drive. Switchboard +1 613 722 4444 — and the desks split by mailbox: visa@thaiembassy.ca, consular@thaiembassy.ca, passport@thaiembassy.ca, contact@thaiembassy.ca for everything else.

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