Mr. Zhang became a U.S. citizen and applied for parents. Can the Guangzhou Consulate determine that his parents are exempt from sponsoring smuggling?

No exemption.

A consulate is the general name for a country’s consular representative office in a city in another country. According to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a consulate is divided into a consulate general, a consulate, a vice consulate and a consular agency, which are responsible for management. Local expatriates and other consular affairs. In order to reflect the principle of diplomatic equality, two countries will generally agree in an agreement to establish consulates in each other's cities in the other country, but unilaterally may not actually open the consulate. At the same time, if two countries break off diplomatic relations, the embassy will definitely be abolished, but the consulate will not necessarily be abolished.

An embassy is a permanent diplomatic representative institution stationed in the capital of a country with which it has diplomatic relations. The embassy represents the interests of the entire country and is fully responsible for relations between the two countries. The head of the embassy is the ambassador, who is appointed by the head of state and performs duties as the representative of the head of state. The primary responsibility of the embassy is to represent the sending country and promote political relations between the two countries. Secondly, it is to promote economic, cultural, educational, scientific and technological relations. The embassy also has consular functions. Promoting relations between the two countries and people-to-people exchanges is an important responsibility of the consulate, but its most important responsibility is consular work, such as safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of its own citizens and legal persons, issuing or extending passports to its own citizens, and issuing visas to foreign citizens.