Portuguese Consulate in Hillsboro
Anyone looking for a Portuguese consulate in Hillsboro will not find one in town. It is served by the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco, 641 miles away by road (about 12 h 30 min).
Which Portuguese consulate serves Hillsboro
Oregon is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Hillsboro go.
It is 641 miles by road and 535 miles in a straight line; the calculated drive takes 12 h 30 min, before traffic.
Hillsboro keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.
To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Hillsboro is in Portland (the last one was on February 23), 14 miles away in a straight line (source).
Other cities in Oregon near Hillsboro
Cities near Hillsboro: Beaverton, 7 miles; Portland (Oregon), 13 miles; Gresham, 24 miles. The Oregon page lists them all, with the drive to the office.
The U.S. papers from Hillsboro the consulate asks for
The U.S. birth certificate the consulate asks for to register a child is issued by Oregon Vital Records (CDC).
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Oregon it is issued by the Oregon Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Hillsboro without traveling
What people in Hillsboro 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).