Portuguese Consulate in Port Angeles
Anyone looking for a Portuguese consulate in Port Angeles will not find one in town. Its office is the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco: 865 miles by road, roughly 17 h 20 min of driving.
Which Portuguese consulate serves Port Angeles
Washington State is on the jurisdiction list of the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco (source), so that is where citizen cards, passports and registry acts from Port Angeles go.
By road it is 865 miles (17 h 20 min at the speed limit); in a straight line, 715 miles.
Port Angeles keeps the office’s time, summer and winter.
The nearest outreach visit to Port Angeles is the one in Seattle, 61 miles away (the last one ran from February 26 to 27), run by the Portuguese Consulate General in San Francisco (source).
Other cities in Washington State near Port Angeles
Around Port Angeles: Everett (Washington), 57 miles; Seattle, 62 miles; Bellingham, 62 miles. The table on the Washington State page gives the drive from each.
The U.S. papers from Port Angeles the consulate asks for
The U.S. birth certificate the consulate asks for to register a child is issued by the Center for Health Statistics of the Department of Health (CDC).
To be used in Portugal, the certificate needs an apostille: in Washington State it is issued by the Washington Secretary of State (Hague Conference list).
What you can settle from Port Angeles without traveling
No travel needed from Port Angeles for this:
- 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).