Where to go: every office for importing your car

Which office for which step

An import takes you to four services. The route shows which step belongs where.

• The IMT handles homologation and the registration certificate. You apply for homologation online, but documents you hand in or collect go through a desk. Not every IMT desk deals with vehicles: in Lisbon the desk in the Saldanha Loja do Cidadão does not, the one in Marvila does, so only Marvila is listed. The IMT asks you to read its notice on the new desk rules before you visit.
• A CITV does the inspection for the new registration. Only a category B centre can do it. The IMT list gives the address of each centre but not its category, so ask when you call to book. More on the inspection: Homologation and inspection.
• Customs (Alfândega) deals with the DAV, which you file online on the Portal das Finanças. You go to a customs office when customs asks to see the original documents. We list only the alfândegas and delegações aduaneiras that the tax authority says have a public desk, not the small customs posts.
• The IRN puts the car in your name, online or at a desk. The list has the offices whose IRN page says you can register a car there. See Registration in your name.

On the islands

In the Azores and Madeira you hand in the foreign registration certificate to the regional land transport service, not to the IMT. Those services are not in this list. The customs and IRN offices on the islands are.

How this list is kept up to date

Every address comes from an official list published by the IMT, the tax and customs authority or the IRN. At the bottom of the page you see each list with its source and the date we read it. A directions link opens Google Maps with the address, or for an inspection centre with the GPS position from the IMT list, and we pass nothing on to Google. Is an address out of date? Let us know and we check it against the source.