Portuguese Consulate in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City has no Portuguese consulate of its own. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 738 miles by road, roughly 12 h 50 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Salt Lake City
The split is by state, and Utah belongs to the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco, according to its jurisdiction page (source).
It is 738 miles by road and 601 miles in a straight line; the calculated drive takes 12 h 50 min, before traffic.
Seen from Salt Lake City, the office’s hours are 1 hour behind.
The nearest honorary consulate in a straight line is the honorary consulate for Utah, in Herriman, 20 miles away. Its entry on the Portal das Comunidades lists no delegated powers, so passports and Citizen Cards are handled at the consulate.
The Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco holds outreach visits in Salt Lake City itself (the last one was on October 1; source).
Other cities in Utah near Salt Lake City
Cities near Salt Lake City: West Valley City, 7 miles; West Jordan, 12 miles; Ogden, 32 miles. The Utah page lists them all, with the drive to the office.
The U.S. papers from Salt Lake City 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).
For the marriage transcription, the marriage certificate of anyone who married in Salt Lake County, the county of Salt Lake City, is requested from the county itself (CDC), 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 Salt Lake City without traveling
From Salt Lake City, without going to the office:
- 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).