Israeli consulate in San Bernardino: the office is in Los Angeles
The Israeli consulate that handles San Bernardino is outside the city. Residents of San Bernardino go to the Israeli Consulate General in Los Angeles, 75 miles away (1 h 32 min by road).
Which Israeli consulate serves San Bernardino
San Francisco and Los Angeles share California between them; the California page sets out both pages’ wording.
By our reading, San Bernardino belongs to Los Angeles: its center is in congressional district 33 of the 2023-2027 map, beyond the “Districts 1-22” that San Francisco’s page claims (source).
On the road it is 75 miles from San Bernardino to the office, about 1 h 32 min in good conditions, or 67 miles as the crow flies.
Calls to Los Angeles need no time conversion from San Bernardino: both run on the same clock.
Other cities in California near San Bernardino
Cities close to San Bernardino, in a straight line: Rialto, 6 miles; Fontana, 10 miles; Riverside, 10 miles. The California page lists the drive to Los Angeles from the cities that have a page.
Birth and marriage records for people in San Bernardino
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 San Bernardino, 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.
San Bernardino is in San Bernardino County: for a marriage license issued there, the certified copy comes 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).
The mission takes it only with 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 San Bernardino 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.