Portuguese Consulate in Central Falls

Anyone looking for a Portuguese consulate in Central Falls will not find one in town. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate in Providence: 6 miles by road, roughly 10 min of driving.

Which Portuguese consulate serves Central Falls

The jurisdiction page of the Portuguese Consulate in Providence includes Rhode Island (source): that is the office for Central Falls.

The Providence consulate says it does not process visa applications and sends applicants to the posts “nearest, in Boston, New Bedford, Newark or New York”; New Bedford’s jurisdiction page says Rhode Island residents must apply for a visa through New Bedford. Neither page is dated. (sources: 1, 2)

By road it is 6 miles (10 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 5 miles.

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

To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Central Falls is in Fall River (the next one is on November 20), 19 miles away in a straight line (source).

Other cities in Rhode Island near Central Falls

Around Central Falls: Cranston, 8 miles; Woonsocket, 10 miles; Warwick, 14 miles. The table on the Rhode Island page gives the drive from each.

The U.S. papers from Central Falls the consulate asks for

Registering a child born here and transcribing a marriage both take U.S. papers. The birth certificate comes from the Center for Vital Records of the RI Department of Health (CDC).

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

What you can settle from Central Falls without traveling

No travel needed from Central Falls for this: