Brazilian consulates in California
California is split by county between Los Angeles, with ten southern counties, and San Francisco, with the remaining forty-eight. Bakersfield, in Kern County, belongs to Los Angeles; Fresno belongs to San Francisco.
If you live in California, one specific Brazilian consulate is yours, and it is not always the one that looks closest on the map.
Which Brazilian consulate covers California?
California is one of the two states that Itamaraty splits by county between two consulates. This is the official list (with the source's typos corrected):
| Consulate | Counties |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles | Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura |
| San Francisco | Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba |
Within the state there is the honorary office in San Diego, which does not replace the consulate general.
Cities in California and their consulate
| City | Consulate | By road* |
|---|---|---|
| Oakland | San Francisco | 10Â mi, 19Â min |
| Long Beach | Los Angeles | 28Â mi, 42Â min |
| Anaheim | Los Angeles | 34Â mi, 47Â min |
| Santa Ana | Los Angeles | 40Â mi, 53Â min |
| Irvine | Los Angeles | 47 mi, 1 h 1 min |
| San Jose | San Francisco | 49 mi, 1 h 2 min |
| Riverside | Los Angeles | 63 mi, 1 h 19 min |
| San Bernardino | Los Angeles | 70 mi, 1 h 27 min |
| Stockton | San Francisco | 82 mi, 1 h 39 min |
| Sacramento | San Francisco | 86 mi, 1 h 46 min |
| Modesto | San Francisco | 91 mi, 1 h 50 min |
| Santa Barbara | Los Angeles | 92 mi, 1 h 56 min |
| Bakersfield | Los Angeles | 109 mi, 2 h 12 min |
| Monterey | San Francisco | 114 mi, 2 h 23 min |
| Palm Springs | Los Angeles | 117 mi, 2 h 21 min |
| Fresno | San Francisco | 185 mi, 3 h 40 min |
| San Luis Obispo | Los Angeles | 186 mi, 3 h 51 min |
| Redding | San Francisco | 215 mi, 4 h 2 min |
| Eureka | San Francisco | 271 mi, 5 h 38 min |
* Road miles and time calculated with OSRM at posted speed limits and without traffic: real time is usually longer.
For the 19 cities of California the average trip is 99 miles; Oakland has the shortest (10 miles) and Eureka the longest (271).
What you can settle without going to the consulate
- Apply for a CPF to the Receita Federal by email, with the online form and a selfie holding your ID.
- Register, transfer or fix your voter registration on the TSE’s TÃtuloNet, without the consulate.
- Apply for an American companion’s e-Visa on the VFS Global platform: the consulate does not take that application.
Before you go, check the consulate's page for its hours and how to request a service: each office publishes its own.
Details verified on 4 October 2026.
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