Make Sure You Visit the “Right” Brazilian Consulate
Occasionally, you may need to visit a Brazilian Consulate in the US. Perhaps you need to apply for a visa, or you’ve decided you want a taxpayer ID number. So you head to the nearest Consulate, right? Well, not necessarily.
Each Brazilian Consulate has a particular jurisdiction. Just because a Consulate is geographically closest to where you live doesn’t mean you can visit that Consulate. Take Ohio, for example. Chicago may be the closest Consulate, but actually, the Consulate in Washington, DC has jurisdiction over Ohio residents.
What does this mean exactly? It means you might not get the help you need from a Consulate if you don’t live in its jurisdiction. And you might think twice about simply showing up in Chicago, for example, when you live in Ohio because they might just turn you away.
Ready for the list? Here you go.
Consulate in Miami, Florida
Florida
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
Consulate in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Mississippi
Tennessee
Consulate in Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Consulate in Chicago, Illinois
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Consulate in Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Consulate in Houston, Texas
Arkansas
Colorado
Kansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Consulate in Los Angeles, California
Arizona
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
American islands in the Pacific (Johnston, Midway, Wake, Howland, Jarvis, Baker, Palmira, and Kingman)
California (Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura)
Consulate in San Francisco, California
Alaska
Oregon
Washington
California (Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Ladera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benidito, San Francisco, San Joaquim, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba)
Consulate in New York, New York
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Bermuda Islands
Consulate in Washington, DC
District of Columbia
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
North Carolina