Portuguese Consulate in McKinney
No Portuguese consulate is based in McKinney. Its office is the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington: 1,317 miles by road, roughly 23 h 46 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves McKinney
The jurisdiction page of the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington includes Texas (source): that is the office for McKinney.
By car, 1,317 miles and about 23 h 46 min without traffic; in a straight line, 1,162 miles.
The office’s clock runs 1 hour ahead of the one in McKinney.
In a straight line, the Consular Office in Palm Coast is closer to McKinney (944 miles), but the jurisdiction list sends Texas to the Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington.
The nearest honorary consulate in a straight line is the honorary consulate in Houston, 248 miles away. According to the Portal das Comunidades, it is exceptionally authorized for notarial acts and issuing travel documents.
The Consular Section of the Embassy in Washington holds consular outreach visits away from its office: the nearest to McKinney in 2026 is in Houston, 248 miles away in a straight line (the last one was on November 2; source).
Other cities in Texas near McKinney
The closest in a straight line are Allen, 6 miles; Frisco, 10 miles; Plano, 13 miles.
The U.S. papers from McKinney the consulate asks for
For the birth transcription you need the U.S. certificate, which in Texas is issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services, through Texas.gov or by mail (CDC).
If your marriage license came from Collin County, where McKinney is, ask the Collin County Clerk for the certificate (CDC); for the marriage transcription it needs an apostille.
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Texas it is issued by the Texas Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from McKinney without traveling
Without the trip, from McKinney:
- You can travel to Portugal as a tourist on a U.S. passport, with no visa, for up to 90 days: Schengen visa and entry to Portugal (source).
- 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).
