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Consular registration
National citizens of a given country residing abroad and registered voluntarily at a consular office of the origin country. The registration is a consular act, whereby the identification of the national citizen is inscribed in the archives of the consular office of the area of jurisdiction in which the citizen is resident or lives occasionally. +

Nowadays, consular registration can only be made if the person concerned is a Portuguese national. In the past, this precondition was only partially required.

Source 2013-2014: Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Direção-Geral dos Assuntos Consulares e das Comunidades Portuguesas (DGACCP), Portugal. On each country page, in box A3, on the website of the Emigration Observatory. LINK DGACCP

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