Israeli consulate in Lafayette: the office is in Houston
No Israeli consulate operates in Lafayette. The Israeli Consulate General in Houston, 222 miles from Lafayette by road (4 h 6 min), takes its cases.
Which Israeli consulate serves Lafayette
The office for Lafayette follows from the list of states: Louisiana belongs to the Israeli Consulate General in Houston (source).
A routing engine puts the drive at 222 miles and 4 h 6 min at legal speeds with no traffic; the straight-line distance is 208 miles.
Lafayette and Houston share a time zone: the office’s hours are your hours.
Houston’s notice says the Consulate General in Atlanta takes the appointments of Southwest residents while the building is renovated (source), and Houston still answers email and mail. Atlanta’s visiting days are on its page.
Other cities in Louisiana near Lafayette
Cities close to Lafayette, in a straight line: New Iberia, 19 miles; Opelousas, 21 miles; Baton Rouge, 52 miles. The Louisiana page lists the drive to Houston from the cities that have a page.
Where the birth and marriage papers from Lafayette come from
The birth certificate that the notice of a child born in Lafayette asks for, in the original, is issued by the Center of Vital Records and Statistics, in New Orleans (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The Louisiana page gives its fee, and the mission’s page lists the document (the mission’s birth notice page).
The parish for Lafayette is Lafayette Parish; what the CDC says about its marriage records is quoted on the Louisiana page.
The Louisiana Secretary of State is the authority that puts the apostille on a document from Louisiana (HCCH list), before it is used in Israel.
What you can settle from Lafayette 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 for the Israeli police certificate (teudat yosher) without going in person: Apostille and documents.
- You can check before you fly how Israel treats a dual citizen at the border: Dual citizenship and entry.