Portuguese Consulate in Hoboken
No Portuguese consulate is based in Hoboken. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark: 8 miles by road, roughly 16 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Hoboken
The jurisdiction page of the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark includes New Jersey (source): that is the office for Hoboken.
By car, 8 miles and about 16 min without traffic; in a straight line, 7 miles.
Read the office’s hours as they are: Hoboken is on the same time.
The nearest outreach visit to Hoboken is the one in Jamaica (Queens), 7 miles away (the last one was on June 5), run by the Portuguese Consulate General in New York (source).
Other cities in New Jersey near Hoboken
Cities near Hoboken: Union City, 3 miles; Kearny, 6 miles; Harrison, 6 miles. The New Jersey page lists them all, with the drive to the office.
The U.S. papers from Hoboken 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 Hoboken without traveling
What people in Hoboken handle remotely:
- 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).