Portuguese Consulate in Gaithersburg
No Portuguese consulate is based in Gaithersburg. The city belongs to the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington: 23 miles of road, around 39 min.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Gaithersburg
Maryland is on the jurisdiction list of the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Gaithersburg go.
By road it is 23 miles (39 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 18 miles.
Gaithersburg keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.
The nearest outreach visit to Gaithersburg is the one in Wilmington, 98 miles away (dates still to be set), run by the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark (source).
Other cities in Maryland near Gaithersburg
Around Gaithersburg: Germantown, 5 miles; Rockville, 5 miles; Silver Spring, 13 miles. The table on the Maryland page gives the drive from each.
The U.S. papers from Gaithersburg the consulate asks for
For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in Maryland is issued by the Division of Vital Records of the Department of Health (CDC).
For the marriage transcription, a marriage in Montgomery County (the county of Gaithersburg) is proven with the certificate from the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (CDC), apostilled.
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 Gaithersburg without traveling
From Gaithersburg, without going to the office:
- 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).
- You can handle certificates and marriage and death registrations by mail: marriage, birth and death registration (source).