Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
The Portuguese Consulate General in Boston, on St. James Avenue, serves nine Massachusetts counties plus New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, and holds outreach visits in towns across the state.
How to book an appointment at the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
Appointments are booked on the foreign ministry’s booking platform (source).
Also serves walk-ins, with priority for people who booked (source).
Boston, MA 02116
It also has an Espaço Cidadão desk, where you can request, for example, a Portuguese criminal record certificate.
How to cancel an appointment at the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
The appointment is canceled or rescheduled on the same foreign ministry booking platform, with the account used to book it (source).
Getting to the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
The address is 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 350, Boston, MA 02116 (source); the map is in the contact block above.
Real reviews of the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
The Consulate General in Boston averages 3.5 stars from 138 reviews on Google, with sharply divided accounts of the waits.
Service is slow and appointment times are not kept: plan to stay for hours.
Dar, December 2025
Very helpful staff who are clearly trying to improve. It gets busy, so booking is best, but they also take walk-ins.
Sean, July 2025
I arrived early and they started my appointment right away. An organized office and professional service.
Montoya, October 2025
Reviews rewritten in our words from Google’s; the facts in them are the reviewers’ own.
Opening hours of the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
Public hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (source).
Citizen cards and passports are collected Monday to Friday, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
The office closes on the Portuguese and U.S. holidays on its holiday calendar (source).
Phone number of the Portuguese Consulate General in Boston
617-536-8740: the consulate’s number (source).
What this office handles in Boston
Citizen cards, passports and notarial acts with or without an appointment; many certificates and registrations also by mail, through its “Consulado em Casa” service.
It has 4 territories on its list: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont.
What you can settle without traveling
No travel needed from Boston for this:
- You can request a Portuguese criminal record certificate on the criminal record portal: certificates and criminal record (source).
- You can request by mail the certificate to exchange a U.S. driving license in Portugal: driving license (source).
- You can travel to Portugal as a tourist on a U.S. passport, with no visa, for up to 90 days: Schengen visa and entry to Portugal (source).