Portuguese Consulate in Fort Myers
There is no Portuguese consulate in Fort Myers. The city belongs to the Consular Office in Palm Coast: 231 miles of road, around 4 h 58 min.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Fort Myers
Washington lists Florida (source); the Section’s office in Palm Coast is the state’s service point and the polling station for its voters (source).
By road it is 231 miles (4 h 58 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 206 miles.
Fort Myers keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.
The nearest honorary consulate in a straight line is the honorary consulate in Miami, 119 miles away. According to the Portal das Comunidades, it is exceptionally authorized for notarial acts and issuing travel documents.
The nearest outreach visit to Fort Myers is the one in Miami, 119 miles away (the last one ran from August 10 to 21), run by the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington (source).
Other cities in Florida near Fort Myers
Near Fort Myers, in a straight line: Cape Coral, 8 miles; Lehigh Acres, 15 miles; Naples, 35 miles. Each has its own page with its office and distance.
The U.S. papers from Fort Myers the consulate asks for
For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in Florida is issued by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Department of Health (CDC).
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Florida it is issued by the Florida Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Fort Myers without traveling
What people in Fort Myers handle remotely:
- 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).