Erin Nickerson has been the Consul General in Krakow, Poland since August 2022. She joined the Foreign Service in 2002. Erin previously served as a Senior Watch Officer in the Executive Secretariat’s Operations Center, as Deputy Economic Chief in Bangkok, Financial Economist in Rome, and as a political officer on the Interagency Provincial Reconstruction Team at Embassy Kabul.
Erin completed an interagency detail assignment as the Mission Economist to USAID Dhaka. Erin also served in Washington as the Azerbaijan desk officer and at Embassies Tegucigalpa and Warsaw. Erin was a Distinguished Graduate from NDU’s Eisenhower School with a Master of Science in National Security and Resource Strategy. She was the 2021 recipient of NDU’s Society of Logistics Engineers Award and the 2011 recipient of the Secretary’s Award for Innovation. Erin also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She speaks Polish, Spanish, and Italian. Erin is joined in Krakow by her husband and son.
The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow, located at Stolarska 9, 31-043 Kraków, Poland, serves as a vital link between the United States and the southern regions of Poland. Operating Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Consulate offers a range of services to both American citizens and Polish nationals. For American Citizen Services, appointments are available from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a closure for lunch between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. The Consulate is closed on both U.S. and Polish public holidays. For general inquiries, you can contact the Consulate at +48 12 424 5100. For American Citizen Services, the contact number is +48 12 424 5129, and in case of emergencies after hours, you can reach them at +48 601 483 348.
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