Israeli consulate in Palo Alto: the office is in San Francisco
There is no Israeli consulate or consular office in Palo Alto. From Palo Alto, the Israeli Consulate General in San Francisco is 34 miles by road, around 47 min of driving.
Which Israeli consulate serves Palo Alto
California has two Israeli offices, and the California page quotes what each one’s page says about the split.
By our reading, Palo Alto belongs to San Francisco: its center is in congressional district 16 of the 2023-2027 map, and San Francisco’s page claims “Districts 1-22” (source).
The drive from Palo Alto is 34 miles, around 47 min without traffic, against 28 miles in a straight line.
No time difference to work out: Palo Alto runs on the same time as San Francisco.
Other cities in California near Palo Alto
Cities close to Palo Alto, in a straight line: Sunnyvale, 8 miles; Fremont, 12 miles; San Mateo, 12 miles. The California page lists the drive to San Francisco from the cities that have a page.
Birth and marriage records for people in Palo Alto
For a child born in Palo Alto, the original birth certificate the mission asks for comes from the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office, in Sacramento (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The California page lists what a copy costs, and the requirement is on the mission’s birth notice page.
In Santa Clara County, where Palo Alto is, certified copies of a marriage record come from the Santa Clara 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.
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 Palo Alto 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.