Israeli consulate in Fresno: the office is in San Francisco
The Israeli consulate for Fresno is in another city. From Fresno, the Israeli Consulate General in San Francisco is 185 miles by road, around 3 h 40 min of driving.
Which Israeli consulate serves Fresno
San Francisco and Los Angeles share California between them; the California page sets out both pages’ wording.
The center of Fresno lies in congressional district 21. San Francisco lists “Districts 1-22” (source), which we take to mean those districts, so Fresno goes with San Francisco by our reading.
Driving from Fresno takes about 3 h 40 min for 185 miles without traffic; the straight-line distance is 161 miles.
Calls to San Francisco need no time conversion from Fresno: both run on the same clock.
Other cities in California near Fresno
The nearest cities to Fresno, in a straight line: Clovis, 8 miles; Visalia, 38 miles; Modesto, 91 miles. The California page gives the drive to San Francisco from its main cities.
Where the birth and marriage papers from Fresno come from
The birth certificate that the notice of a child born in Fresno asks for, in the original, is issued by the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office, in Sacramento (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The California page gives its fee, and the mission’s page lists the document (the mission’s birth notice page).
For a marriage license issued in Fresno County, the county that includes Fresno, the CDC’s directory for California sends you to the Fresno County Recorder (or its Clerk, for a confidential marriage) (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The mission wants that certificate in the original, with an apostille.
The California Secretary of State is the authority that puts the apostille on a document from California (HCCH list), before it is used in Israel.
What you can settle from Fresno 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.