Portuguese Consulate in Provo
For the Portuguese consulate, people in Provo have to travel. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 780 miles by road, roughly 13 h 35 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Provo
For Provo, the list of states of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco decides, and it includes Utah (source).
By car, 780 miles and about 13 h 35 min without traffic; in a straight line, 603 miles.
There is a 1 hour difference between Provo and the office (behind), all year.
In a straight line, the nearest honorary office is the honorary consulate for Utah, in Herriman (26 miles). Its entry on the Portal das Comunidades lists no delegated powers, so passports and Citizen Cards are handled at the consulate.
To avoid the trip to the office there are outreach visits: the closest to Provo is in Salt Lake City (the last one was on October 1), 40 miles away in a straight line (source).
Other cities in Utah near Provo
Around Provo: West Jordan, 31 miles; West Valley City, 36 miles; Salt Lake City, 38 miles. The table on the Utah page gives the drive from each.
The U.S. papers from Provo the consulate asks for
If you register a child born in Utah, you need the local birth certificate: the Office of Vital Records and Statistics issues it (CDC).
Provo is in Utah County. In this state the marriage certificate comes from the county where the license was issued (CDC), and that is what the marriage transcription asks for, with an apostille.
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Utah it is issued by the Lieutenant Governor of Utah (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Provo without traveling
From Provo, without going to the office:
- You can request a Portuguese criminal record certificate on the criminal record portal: certificates and criminal record (source).
- 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).
