Portuguese Consulate in Thousand Oaks

A Portuguese consulate in Thousand Oaks does not exist: another office covers the city. It is served by the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco, 388 miles away by road (about 7 h 24 min).

Which Portuguese consulate serves Thousand Oaks

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 Thousand Oaks go.

By road it is 388 miles (7 h 24 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 319 miles.

Thousand Oaks keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.

Closer, 51 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.

To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Thousand Oaks is in Artesia (the last one ran from October 19 to 23), 51 miles away in a straight line (source).

Other cities in California near Thousand Oaks

The closest in a straight line are Simi Valley, 9 miles; Oxnard, 19 miles; Ventura, 22 miles.

The U.S. papers from Thousand Oaks the consulate asks for

If you register a child born in California, you need the local birth certificate: the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office issues it (CDC).

In Ventura County, the county of Thousand Oaks, marriage certificates come from the Ventura County Recorder (or its Clerk, for a confidential marriage), according to the CDC (CDC). The marriage transcription asks for it with 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 Thousand Oaks without traveling

What people in Thousand Oaks handle remotely: