Portuguese Consulate in Harrisburg

The Portuguese consulate that serves Harrisburg is outside the city. It is served by the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark, 160 miles away by road (about 3 h 17 min).

Which Portuguese consulate serves Harrisburg

Pennsylvania is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Harrisburg go.

It is 160 miles by road and 147 miles in a straight line; the calculated drive takes 3 h 17 min, before traffic.

There is no time difference between Harrisburg and the office.

In a straight line, the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington is closer to Harrisburg (94 miles), but the jurisdiction list sends Pennsylvania to the Portuguese Consulate General in Newark.

To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Harrisburg is in Wilmington (dates still to be set), 81 miles away in a straight line (source).

Other cities in Pennsylvania near Harrisburg

Around Harrisburg: Lancaster (Pennsylvania), 34 miles; Reading, 51 miles; Allentown, 78 miles. The table on the Pennsylvania page gives the drive from each.

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

For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in Pennsylvania is issued by the Division of Vital Records (CDC).

If your marriage license came from Dauphin County, where Harrisburg is, ask the Marriage License Clerk at the Dauphin County Courthouse for the certificate (CDC); for the marriage transcription it needs an apostille.

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

What you can settle from Harrisburg without traveling

This can be settled from Harrisburg without traveling: