Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

The Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco, on Washington Street, covers the West: California and the other Pacific and Mountain states, plus Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.

How to book an appointment at the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

Appointments are booked on the foreign ministry’s booking platform (source).

It always keeps two months open (the current one and the next); the new month opens on the last working day (source).

Fees go up 20% when an act is requested at an outreach visit, and the exchange rate changes every month.

How to cancel an appointment at the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

The appointment is canceled or rescheduled on the same foreign ministry booking platform, with the account used to book it (source).

Getting to the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

The address is 3298 Washington Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 (source); the map is in the contact block above.

Real reviews of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

The Consulate General in San Francisco averages 3.5 stars from 191 reviews on Google.

Getting an appointment took months, but the passport renewal was ready in time for the trip.

Patricia, August 2025

With an online appointment, they let me wait inside before my slot, which helped with the cold. Kind service.

Jae, December 2023

My family wrote to the consulate after a bad experience and the reply was curt and solved nothing.

Paris, March 2026

Reviews rewritten in our words from Google’s; the facts in them are the reviewers’ own.

Opening hours of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

Public hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., by appointment only (source).

The office closes on the Portuguese and U.S. holidays on its holiday calendar (source).

Phone number of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco

415-346-3400: the consulate’s number (also 3401) (source).

For visas: [email protected].

For legal and social matters: [email protected].

For emergencies: [email protected].

What this office handles in San Francisco

Every act by appointment at its office and at outreach visits across the West; visas go through VFS Global.

It has 16 territories on its list: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.

Guides to the 6 procedures handled at this office:

Visa applications are not lodged at this office: they are submitted at VFS Global, with the appointment booked on VFS’s own website (source). The guides to the 5 visas:

San Francisco’s jurisdiction page in Portuguese ends its list with the “Ilhas da Micronésia” (Micronesia, an independent country); the same page in English says “Northern Mariana Islands”, the U.S. territory. We follow the English version. (sources: 1, 2)

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