Israeli consulate in Fontana: the office is in Los Angeles
You will not find an Israeli consulate in Fontana. From Fontana, the Israeli Consulate General in Los Angeles is 64 miles by road, around 1 h 21 min of driving.
Which Israeli consulate serves Fontana
California has two Israeli offices, and the California page quotes what each one’s page says about the split.
The center of Fontana lies in congressional district 33. San Francisco lists “Districts 1-22” (source), which we take to mean those districts, so Fontana stays with Los Angeles by our reading.
A routing engine puts the drive at 64 miles and 1 h 21 min at legal speeds with no traffic; the straight-line distance is 57 miles.
Fontana and Los Angeles share a time zone: the office’s hours are your hours.
Other cities in California near Fontana
From Fontana, as the crow flies: Rialto, 4 miles; Rancho Cucamonga, 6 miles; Jurupa Valley, 7 miles. For the road to Los Angeles from the main cities, see the California page.
Where the birth and marriage papers from Fontana come from
The mission’s notice of a child born abroad asks for the original birth certificate (the mission’s birth notice page).
For a birth in Fontana, it comes from the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office, in Sacramento (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and the California page has the fee.
In San Bernardino County, where Fontana is, certified copies of a marriage record come from the San Bernardino County Recorder (or its Clerk, for a confidential marriage), according to the CDC’s directory for California (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
For the mission, the copy needs an apostille.
A public document from California goes to Israel with an apostille from the California Secretary of State (HCCH list); Israel and the U.S. are both parties to the Hague Convention, which Israel joined in 1978.
What you can settle from Fontana without traveling
- You can renew an adult passport by mail if you visited Israel in the last ten years and still have the old one: Israeli passport.
- You can ask by mail to extend a travel document that was issued for less than five years: Passport extension.
- You can get a U.S. document apostilled by the state that issued it before you send it to Israel: Apostille and documents.