Portuguese Consulate in Hackensack
For the Portuguese consulate, people in Hackensack have to travel. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark: 15 miles by road, roughly 23 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Hackensack
New Jersey is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Hackensack go.
By car, 15 miles and about 23 min without traffic; in a straight line, 12 miles.
Read the office’s hours as they are: Hackensack is on the same time.
The Portuguese Consulate General in New York holds consular outreach visits away from its office: the nearest to Hackensack in 2026 is in Yonkers, 10 miles away in a straight line (the next one is on November 18; source).
Other cities in New Jersey near Hackensack
The closest in a straight line are Bergenfield, 4 miles; Passaic, 5 miles; Paterson, 7 miles.
The U.S. papers from Hackensack the consulate asks for
Registering a child born here and transcribing a marriage both take U.S. papers. The birth certificate comes from the Office of Vital Statistics & Registry of the NJ Department of Health (CDC).
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in New Jersey it is issued by the New Jersey Division of Revenue (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Hackensack without traveling
No travel needed from Hackensack for this:
- 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).