Israeli consulate in Santa Cruz: the office is in San Francisco
The Israeli consulate that handles Santa Cruz is outside the city. The Israeli Consulate General in San Francisco is the office for Santa Cruz: 74 miles by road, about 1 h 36 min.
Which Israeli consulate serves Santa Cruz
Two offices divide California, and their own words are quoted on the California page.
San Francisco’s page serves “Northern California (Districts 1-22)” (source). We read those as congressional districts on the 2023-2027 map: the center of Santa Cruz is in district 19, so this page sends it to San Francisco. That is our reading, not a published rule.
By road, Santa Cruz is 74 miles from the office, about 1 h 36 min at posted speed limits and without traffic; in a straight line, 60 miles.
No time difference to work out: Santa Cruz runs on the same time as San Francisco.
Other cities in California near Santa Cruz
Cities close to Santa Cruz, in a straight line: San Jose, 26 miles; Monterey, 27 miles; Santa Clara, 27 miles. The California page lists the drive to San Francisco from the cities that have a page.
Santa Cruz: which U.S. office issues your birth and marriage certificates
A child born in Santa Cruz is registered with Israel on the strength of an original birth certificate (the mission’s birth notice page).
In California that certificate comes from the California Department of Public Health’s Vital Records office, in Sacramento (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records); the fee is on the California page.
Santa Cruz is in Santa Cruz County: for a marriage license issued there, the certified copy comes from the Santa Cruz 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.
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 Santa Cruz 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 apply for the ETA-IL online at the Population Authority’s site; a U.S. passport holder needs no visa for a short visit: ETA-IL and visas.
- You can ask by mail to extend a travel document that was issued for less than five years: Passport extension.