Algeria’s embassy in Buenos Aires: practical contact details
The Algerian Embassy is at Montevideo 1889, C1021AAE, Buenos Aires. Current Algerian and Argentine records agree on two telephone numbers, +54 11 4815 1271 and +54 11 4815 5969, and fax +54 11 4815 8837. The mission publishes general hours of Monday to Friday 09:00–16:00. Argentina’s directory separately lists Consular Section hours of 09:30–12:30 and 13:30–17:00 without naming the weekdays. Lotfi Sebouai is the current ambassador. Confirm the relevant desk and appointment rule before travelling.
Reviewed 30 July 2026Published address and contact channels
Name the exact transaction and your usual place of residence in the first enquiry, and say whether it concerns a consular, visa or institutional matter. Confirm the receiving section, appointment, submission and return method before travelling, paying or sending an original.
Embassy address in Buenos Aires
Montevideo 1889C1021AAE, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contacts published by the Buenos Aires mission
- First published telephone +54 11 4815 1271
- Second published telephone +54 11 4815 5969
- Fax confirmed in current official directories +54 11 4815 8837
- Email on the mission and Embassy records
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Email in Argentina’s Consular Section record
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Source-labelled published hours Mission general hours: Monday to Friday 09:00–16:00. Argentina’s Consular Section record lists 09:30–12:30 and 13:30–17:00 but does not state weekdays. Uruguay’s directory gives another schedule for the concurrent mission, so confirm before visiting.
- Official website embbuenosaires.mfa.gov.dz
The verified public address identifies the chancery, not the entrance for every procedure. In your first message, name the visa, civil-status, registration or other consular service you need and ask whether an appointment or personal attendance is required. If you live outside Argentina, ask first whether Buenos Aires is still competent for that procedure. Do not send a passport, residence permit or original civil record until the mission confirms the receiving address, accepted delivery method, tracking and return arrangements in writing.
Which contact detail should you use?
The mission and Argentina’s embassy record publish
The Embassy and its Consular Section share this address
Argentina’s foreign-ministry directory lists an Embassy and a Consular Section at Montevideo 1889. The Section’s stated jurisdiction covers all Argentine territory. This is not evidence of a separate Algerian Consulate General.
Who is Algeria’s ambassador in Argentina?
Lotfi Sebouai is the current ambassador
Argentina’s current foreign-mission directory names Lotfi Sebouai as Ambassador. The mission records his presentation of credentials to President Javier Milei on 15 May 2024 and still identifies him in its 2026 activity. Uruguay and Paraguay also list him as head of the concurrently accredited mission.
Argentina labels 26 October 2023 as its accreditation date, while the mission records the credentials ceremony in May 2024 and Uruguay records its own accreditation in January 2025. These are different official events, not conflicting versions of one date. The available records do not prove a complete staff or duty list.
Choose the route by residence and procedure
For a procedure in Argentina, state your nationality, lawful city of residence and exact request. The host directory says the Embassy’s Consular Section covers all Argentine territory. Ask for written confirmation of the responsible desk, personal attendance and appointment. If you live elsewhere, first check which Algerian mission is competent for your case.
If you live lawfully in Argentina
Start with the official Buenos Aires contact page. Give your nationality, city of lawful residence and exact procedure. For a visa, add the purpose and intended travel dates. For an Algerian consular matter, state your registration position and the document or civil-status act required. Ask which desk owns the case, whether personal attendance is required, and which current copies, translations or originals must be shown.
If you live outside Argentina
Put your country and city of lawful residence in the subject line. Ask whether Buenos Aires is competent for your nationality and procedure or whether another Algerian post must handle it. Request the correct official link and wait for a written answer before travelling, paying for legalisation or translations, or releasing an original document.
Protect passports and original records
The frozen official evidence does not establish a current courier or postal process for originals. Obtain written confirmation of the exact receiving desk, delivery company, tracking, insurance, return envelope, collection method and responsibility for loss before releasing any passport or civil-status record. Keep complete copies and the dated official reply.
Use official pages for orientation, then confirm
The mission’s visa and registration pages are useful starting points, not a current Buenos Aires checklist. The registration page includes France-specific documents, and the generic visa page does not establish a local fee, appointment or processing promise. Confirm the current form, documents, payment, submission and passport-return method with the Consular Section.
Visa enquiries in Buenos Aires
Send your nationality, lawful country and city of residence, travel purpose and dates. Ask the visa section to confirm jurisdiction, the current form and checklist, copies and photos, insurance, appointment route, fee, payment and passport return. Do not rely on any timing, fee or courier rule from the older page.
What to include in the first message
Give your full name, nationality, lawful country and city of residence, the exact service and a preferred contact method. For a visa, add the travel purpose and dates. Do not attach unnecessary identity scans. Ask for the current form, number of copies, photo rules, translations or legalisation, appointment channel, fee and payment reference, submission route, processing estimate, and collection or secure return method.
Algerian consular and civil-status matters
For registration, civil status, passports or another Algerian consular matter, request the current local form, eligibility, originals and copies, translations, attendance and collection rule. Do not send an original until written instructions identify receipt, tracking and safe return.
Name the service in the first message
A short enquiry with enough context is easier to route than a broad request for ‘all the documents’. State who you are, where you normally live, the exact procedure and the decision you need from the embassy.
Algerian document or consular matter
Name the passport, registration, civil-status, legalisation or other procedure. Ask for the current Buenos Aires checklist and whether attendance, an appointment, originals, copies, payment or collection are required.
Visa for Algeria
Give nationality, country of habitual residence, purpose and expected length of travel. Ask for the correct category, form, supporting papers, fee, payment method, appointment rule and personal-attendance requirement.
Institutional or diplomatic enquiry
Identify the organisation, subject, responsible contact and any genuine deadline. Do not attach personal or confidential records until the receiving address, section and transfer method have been confirmed.
Prepare a useful enquiry before calling or writing
The office can answer more accurately when the first message contains enough context. Keep it concise and do not attach sensitive documents until the recipient and method have been confirmed.
- Your full name and a safe way to reply.
- Your nationality and, when relevant, whether you are an Algerian citizen or a foreign traveller.
- Country of habitual residence, town and postcode, because residence can determine the competent Algerian post.
- The exact service: passport, civil status, consular registration, legalisation, visa or another named request.
- Any genuine deadline and the reason for it, without presenting a travel booking as a guaranteed processing date.
- A request for the current checklist, fees, payment method, appointment rule, submission method and collection method.
No reliable Buenos Aires-specific postal procedure or return method was established in the checked material. Ask for written confirmation before posting a passport, certificate or other original. If an office authorises post, follow its current packaging, tracking and return instructions exactly and keep copies of everything sent.
Information this guide does not treat as settled
The official evidence supports a practical guide, but not these assurances:
- published hours do not guarantee walk-in, counter or appointment access;
- the Consular Section schedule does not name the weekdays;
- older official directories retain a different email address;
- the host staff list is not a complete duty roster, and one honorary-consul date is invalid;
- generic visa and registration pages do not prove current local fees, forms or processing times;
- the evidence identifies a Consular Section of the Embassy, not a separate Consulate General.
Before a visit, payment or document shipment, obtain a dated reply that names the responsible post and desk, territorial competence, current hours and appointment rule, checklist, fee and payment route, processing estimate, submission channel and safe return method.
Frequently asked questions
What is the address of the Algerian Embassy in Buenos Aires?
Montevideo 1889, C1021AAE, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Confirm the entrance and desk before travelling.
Which phone numbers and hours are published?
+54 11 4815 1271 and +54 11 4815 5969. The mission lists Monday–Friday 09:00–16:00; Argentina lists Consular Section times of 09:30–12:30 and 13:30–17:00 without weekdays.
Who is the current ambassador?
Argentina’s directory and current mission records identify Lotfi Sebouai.
Which email should I use?
The mission/Embassy record and the Consular Section record publish different role-labelled addresses. Use the relevant official contact and confirm the desk.
Is the online visa page a complete Buenos Aires procedure?
No. Confirm the current form, checklist, appointment, fee, payment, submission and passport-return method directly.
Official sources checked
The practical details were checked against Algeria’s central directory and Buenos Aires mission, Argentina’s Embassy and Consular Section records, plus current government directories from Uruguay and Paraguay. Variable procedures and unresolved contact conflicts are not presented as settled facts.
- Algerian Foreign Ministry directory for Argentina
- Official Algerian Embassy in Buenos Aires portal
- Official mission contact page
- Mission record of the credentials ceremony
- Official general visa page
- Official consular-registration page
- Argentine foreign-ministry Embassy record
- Argentine foreign-ministry Consular Section record
- Uruguayan foreign-ministry Algeria record
- Paraguayan foreign-ministry Algeria record