Portuguese Consulate in San Bernardino
The Portuguese consulate that serves San Bernardino is outside the city. The city belongs to the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 436 miles of road, around 8 h 13 min.
Which Portuguese consulate serves San Bernardino
The jurisdiction page of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco includes California (source): that is the office for San Bernardino.
By road it is 436 miles (8 h 13 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 385 miles.
Read the office’s hours as they are: San Bernardino is on the same time.
Closer, 48 miles away in a straight line, is the honorary consulate in Los Angeles. Its entry on the Portal das Comunidades lists no delegated powers, so passports and Citizen Cards are handled at the consulate.
The nearest outreach visit to San Bernardino is the one in Artesia, 48 miles away (the last one ran from October 19 to 23), run by the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco (source).
Other cities in California near San Bernardino
Around San Bernardino: Rialto, 6 miles; Riverside, 10 miles; Fontana, 10 miles. The table on the California page gives the drive from each.
The U.S. papers from San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County, where San Bernardino is, ask the San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino without traveling
No travel needed from San Bernardino for this:
- 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).
- You can request a Portuguese criminal record certificate on the criminal record portal: certificates and criminal record (source).