Portuguese Consulate in Frederick
The Portuguese consulate that serves Frederick is outside the city. Its office is the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington: 45 miles by road, roughly 1 h 8 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Frederick
The Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington lists Maryland in its jurisdiction (source), which puts Frederick in its hands.
It is 45 miles by road and 40 miles in a straight line; the calculated drive takes 1 h 8 min, before traffic.
Frederick keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.
The Portuguese Consulate General in Newark holds consular outreach visits away from its office: the nearest to Frederick in 2026 is in Wilmington, 103 miles away in a straight line (dates still to be set; source).
Other cities in Maryland near Frederick
The closest in a straight line are Germantown, 18 miles; Gaithersburg, 22 miles; Rockville, 27 miles.
The U.S. papers from Frederick the consulate asks for
The U.S. birth certificate the consulate asks for to register a child is issued by the Division of Vital Records of the Department of Health (CDC).
If your marriage license came from Frederick County, where Frederick is, ask the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick County for the certificate (CDC); for the marriage transcription it needs an apostille.
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Maryland it is issued by the Maryland Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Frederick without traveling
From Frederick, without going to the office:
- 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).