Portuguese Consulate in Dearborn

No Portuguese consulate is based in Dearborn. The city belongs to the Portuguese Consulate General in New York: 613 miles of road, around 11 h 36 min.

Which Portuguese consulate serves Dearborn

Michigan is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in New York (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Dearborn go.

By car, 613 miles and about 11 h 36 min without traffic; in a straight line, 488 miles.

Read the office’s hours as they are: Dearborn is on the same time.

In a straight line, the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington is closer to Dearborn (399 miles), but the jurisdiction list sends Michigan to the Portuguese Consulate General in New York.

Closer, 234 miles away in a straight line, is the honorary consulate in Indianapolis. Its entry on the Portal das Comunidades lists no delegated powers, so passports and Citizen Cards are handled at the consulate.

The nearest outreach visit to Dearborn is the one in Chicago, 234 miles away (the last one was on July 6), run by the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington (source).

Other cities in Michigan near Dearborn

The closest in a straight line are Detroit, 7 miles; Hamtramck, 8 miles; Southfield, 11 miles.

The U.S. papers from Dearborn the consulate asks for

For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in Michigan is issued by the state’s Vital Records office (CDC).

Dearborn is in Wayne County: for a marriage license issued there, the certificate comes from the Wayne County Clerk, according to the CDC directory (CDC). That certificate, with an apostille, is what goes with the marriage transcription.

To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Michigan it is issued by the Michigan Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).

What you can settle from Dearborn without traveling

No travel needed from Dearborn for this: