Portuguese Consulate in Burbank
There is no Portuguese consulate in Burbank. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 372 miles by road, roughly 6 h 57 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Burbank
The jurisdiction page of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco includes California (source): that is the office for Burbank.
A routing engine puts the drive at 372 miles and 6 h 57 min, at posted speed limits and without traffic; in a straight line it is 339 miles.
Burbank and the office share the same time all year.
The honorary consulate in Los Angeles is 26 miles away in a straight line. Its entry on the Portal das Comunidades lists no delegated powers, so passports and Citizen Cards are handled at the consulate.
To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Burbank is in Artesia (the last one ran from October 19 to 23), 26 miles away in a straight line (source).
Other cities in California near Burbank
Around Burbank: Glendale (California), 5 miles; Pasadena (California), 11 miles; East Los Angeles, 14 miles. The table on the California page gives the drive from each.
The U.S. papers from Burbank the consulate asks for
The U.S. birth certificate the consulate asks for to register a child is issued by the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office (CDC).
If your marriage license came from Los Angeles County, where Burbank is, ask the Los Angeles County Recorder (or its Clerk, for a confidential marriage) for the certificate (CDC); for the marriage transcription it needs an apostille.
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in California it is issued by the California Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Burbank without traveling
No travel needed from Burbank for this:
- You can travel to Portugal as a tourist on a U.S. passport, with no visa, for up to 90 days: Schengen visa and entry to Portugal (source).
- You can send the citizenship-by-marriage application straight to Lisbon: citizenship by marriage (source).
- You can renew the Citizen Card online through the Consulado Virtual, from age 25: Citizen Card (source).
