Portuguese Consulate in Sacramento

Sacramento has no Portuguese consulate of its own. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 89 miles by road, roughly 1 h 53 min of driving.

Which Portuguese consulate serves Sacramento

California is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Sacramento go.

By car, 89 miles and about 1 h 53 min without traffic; in a straight line, 75 miles.

Sacramento keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.

The Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco holds consular outreach visits away from its office: the nearest to Sacramento in 2026 is in Turlock, 82 miles away in a straight line (the last one ran from April 13 to 17; source).

Other cities in California near Sacramento

Around Sacramento: Elk Grove, 13 miles; Roseville, 16 miles; Vacaville, 30 miles. The table on the California page gives the drive from each.

The U.S. papers from Sacramento the consulate asks for

For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in California is issued by the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office (CDC).

If your marriage license came from Sacramento County, where Sacramento is, ask the Sacramento 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 Sacramento without traveling

No travel needed from Sacramento for this: