Portuguese Consulate in Ventura

No Portuguese consulate is based in Ventura. The Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco is the office for Ventura, 359 miles away by road, about 7 h 10 min behind the wheel.

Which Portuguese consulate serves Ventura

The jurisdiction page of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco includes California (source): that is the office for Ventura.

By road it is 359 miles (7 h 10 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 302 miles.

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

The honorary consulate in Los Angeles is 73 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.

The nearest outreach visit to Ventura is the one in Artesia, 73 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 Ventura

The closest in a straight line are Oxnard, 5 miles; Thousand Oaks, 22 miles; Santa Barbara, 28 miles.

The U.S. papers from Ventura 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 Ventura County, where Ventura is, ask the Ventura 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 Ventura without traveling

This can be settled from Ventura without traveling: