How we check the information on this site
Consuladosportugal.us is an independent directory of Portugal’s consular offices in the United States. It is not run by the Portuguese government or by any of its offices, and it cannot file or book anything.
This page explains where each fact comes from and what we do when the official pages disagree.
Where the information comes from
- The offices’ official pages on mne.gov.pt: the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington, the consulates general and the consulates, each with its contacts, its list of states, its services and its notices.
- The foreign ministry’s Portal das Comunidades: the list of posts, the page of each office and of the 11 honorary consuls, the consular services and the outreach visits.
- The ministry’s visa website, the consular fee table and the Diário da República, for visas, fees and the law.
- A keyword study made for this site, with search volumes from Google Ads, which decides the pages and the order of the guides.
- The CDC and the Hague Conference, for each state’s U.S. records and apostille, and the Census (ACS) for Portuguese ancestry.
- Google’s business listings, for reviews and for addresses that differ from the official ones.
Copies of the sources
Every official page we cite is saved when we read it, so a fact can be checked against the text it came from. Where a page says when it was last updated, that date decides which of two versions we publish.
When official pages disagree
When we can date both pages, the newer one decides and we say so; when we cannot, we publish both, each with its link. The site carries 11 of these today, each on the page where it changes what you do:
- Rhode Island: Providence does not process visas, and New Bedford says to file them there
- New Bedford: two sets of hours, on its contact page and on its notice
- Washington: the Portal’s hours and the Consular Section’s own
- Palm Coast, missing from the official list of posts
- San Francisco: “Micronesia” in Portuguese, “Northern Mariana Islands” in English
- San Diego: two phone numbers for the same honorary consul
- San Juan: a garbled phone number on the Portal
- Chicago: a page named like a consulate that is not official
- Palm Coast: the former ad honorem consulate’s website
- Citizenship: the consulates’ pages and Organic Law no. 1/2026
- Providence: consulate or vice-consulate
Which office serves your state
Each office publishes its list of states, and every state page follows it. Massachusetts is split by county between Boston and New Bedford, according to both offices’ pages; Florida is Washington’s and is served in Palm Coast; and Rhode Island has two versions for visas.
Road distances and driving times come from OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), at posted speed limits and without traffic; straight-line distances are calculated from the coordinates of each city and office.
Fees and reviews
Fees on fees and requirements and in the guides come from the consular fee table; the dollar amount is Newark’s monthly table, and each office says how it takes payment.
Reviews are read on Google and rewritten in our words, the critical ones included.
What we have not done
We have not visited the offices or called them. The facts here come from what the offices and Portuguese and U.S. authorities publish, with Google’s listings for the reviews and OpenStreetMap for the distances. If a page here and an office disagree, the office decides.
Corrections
If you find an error, write to [email protected] with the page and the official source that contradicts it. The legal notice says who runs the site.