Israeli consulate in Lawrence: the office is in Boston
The Israeli consulate for Lawrence is in another city. The Israeli Consulate General in Boston, 28 miles from Lawrence by road (38 min), takes its cases.
Which Israeli consulate serves Lawrence
Massachusetts belongs to the district of the Israeli Consulate General in Boston (source), and Lawrence with it.
On the road it is 28 miles from Lawrence to the office, about 38 min in good conditions, or 25 miles as the crow flies.
Lawrence and Boston share a time zone: the office’s hours are your hours.
Other cities in Massachusetts near Lawrence
In a straight line from Lawrence: Haverhill, 7 miles; Lowell, 9 miles; Salem, 19 miles. The Massachusetts page has the drive to Boston from its main cities.
Lawrence: which U.S. office issues your birth and marriage certificates
Order the original birth certificate of a child born in Lawrence from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, in Dorchester (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records). The mission’s birth notice asks for it (the mission’s birth notice page), and the Massachusetts page lists the fee.
For a birth, marriage or court document issued in Massachusetts, the apostille comes from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (HCCH list), not from the consulate.
What you can settle from Lawrence 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.