Israeli consulate in Garland: the office is in Houston
No Israeli consulate operates in Garland. The Israeli Consulate General in Houston is the office for Garland: 258 miles by road, about 4 h 38 min.
Which Israeli consulate serves Garland
The Israeli Consulate General in Houston counts Texas in its district (source), so residents of Garland deal with that office.
On the road it is 258 miles from Garland to the office, about 4 h 38 min in good conditions, or 231 miles as the crow flies.
Garland and Houston share a time zone: the office’s hours are your hours.
While Houston’s building is renovated, its notice sends the in-person appointments of Southwest residents to the Consulate General in Atlanta (source); email and mail still go to Houston. Atlanta’s visiting days are on its page.
Other cities in Texas near Garland
In a straight line from Garland: Richardson, 6 miles; Plano, 8 miles; Mesquite, 11 miles. The Texas page has the drive to Houston from its main cities.
Birth and marriage records for people in Garland
The birth certificate that the notice of a child born in Garland asks for, in the original, is issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services, through Texas.gov or by mail (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records).
The Texas page gives its fee, and the mission’s page lists the document (the mission’s birth notice page).
Parts of Garland lie in Collin, Dallas and Rockwall counties. For Dallas County, the CDC’s directory for Texas names the Dallas County Clerk as the place for a marriage record (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and the mission takes the certificate with an apostille.
The apostille for a public document from Texas is issued by the Texas Secretary of State (HCCH list).
What you can settle from Garland 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.