Israeli consulate in Visalia: the office is in San Francisco
There is no Israeli consulate or consular office in Visalia. The Israeli Consulate General in San Francisco is the office for Visalia: 224 miles by road, about 4 h 22 min.
Which Israeli consulate serves Visalia
California has two Israeli offices, and the California page quotes what each one’s page says about the split.
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 Visalia is in district 20, so this page sends it to San Francisco. That is our reading, not a published rule.
On the road it is 224 miles from Visalia to the office, about 4 h 22 min in good conditions, or 197 miles as the crow flies.
No time difference to work out: Visalia runs on the same time as San Francisco.
In a straight line the Israeli Consulate General in Los Angeles is nearer, 165 miles from Visalia, but our reading goes by the district, not by distance.
Other cities in California near Visalia
Measured in a straight line from Visalia: Fresno, 38 miles; Clovis, 40 miles; Bakersfield, 68 miles. See the California page for the road distance to San Francisco.
U.S. birth and marriage papers from Visalia for an Israeli mission
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 Visalia, 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 Tulare County, where Visalia is, certified copies of a marriage record come from the Tulare 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 Visalia 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.