Israeli consulate in Sterling Heights: the office is in Chicago
There is no Israeli consulate or consular office in Sterling Heights. From Sterling Heights, the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago is 295 miles by road, around 5 h 39 min of driving.
Which Israeli consulate serves Sterling Heights
Michigan belongs to the district of the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago (source), and Sterling Heights with it.
On the road it is 295 miles from Sterling Heights to the office, about 5 h 39 min in good conditions, or 241 miles as the crow flies.
All year, Chicago is one hour behind Sterling Heights; count it in when you call.
Questions to Chicago go by email, with your full name and ID number, since it gives no phone support; its notice, updated on 13 November 2026, asks for every visitor to be registered in advance (source).
Other cities in Michigan near Sterling Heights
Measured in a straight line from Sterling Heights: Warren, 6 miles; Hamtramck, 13 miles; Southfield, 14 miles. See the Michigan page for the road distance to Chicago.
Birth and marriage records for people in Sterling Heights
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 Sterling Heights, it comes from the state’s Vital Records office, in Lansing (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and the Michigan page has the fee.
Sterling Heights is in Macomb County: for a marriage license issued there, the certified copy comes from the Macomb County Clerk, according to the CDC’s directory for Michigan (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records). The mission takes it only with an apostille.
A public document from Michigan goes to Israel with an apostille from the Michigan 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 Sterling Heights 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.