Israeli consulate in Grand Prairie: the office is in Houston
You will not find an Israeli consulate in Grand Prairie. From Grand Prairie, the Israeli Consulate General in Houston is 253 miles by road, around 4 h 32 min of driving.
Which Israeli consulate serves Grand Prairie
On its list of states (source), the Israeli Consulate General in Houston includes Texas; that makes it the office for Grand Prairie.
A routing engine puts the drive at 253 miles and 4 h 32 min at legal speeds with no traffic; the straight-line distance is 225 miles.
Grand Prairie and Houston share a time zone: the office’s hours are your hours.
For anything in person, Houston’s notice points Southwest residents to the Consulate General in Atlanta until its renovation ends (source); Houston keeps answering email and mail. See its page for Atlanta’s visiting days.
Other cities in Texas near Grand Prairie
In a straight line from Grand Prairie: Arlington, 6 miles; Irving, 11 miles; Dallas, 14 miles. The Texas page has the drive to Houston from its main cities.
Birth and marriage papers from Grand Prairie: which U.S. office issues them
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 Grand Prairie, it comes from the Texas Department of State Health Services, through Texas.gov or by mail (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and the Texas page has the fee.
Parts of Grand Prairie lie in Dallas, Ellis and Tarrant 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 Texas Secretary of State is the authority that puts the apostille on a document from Texas (HCCH list), before it is used in Israel.
What you can settle from Grand Prairie 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.