Consular Services

Visa Services

List of Forms and Documents for Download

a.         Address of the mission

Embassy of Israel in Belgrade

Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića 47

Dedinje

11000 Belgrade

b.         Reception hours for consular services

Monday - Friday

10:00 - 13:00

More information may be found at the web site of Embassy of Israel in Belgrade www.belgrade.mfa.gov.il

For more information about local and Jewish holidays, on which the Embassy will be closed, click Local and Jewish Holidays.

c.         Telephone reception hours for consular services

Monday - Friday

10:00 - 16:00

Tel:  +381 11 36 43 500

Fax: +381 11 36 70 304

d.         Jurisdiction

Serbia; Montenegro (non-resident)

e.         Security instructions for people who wish to obtain consular services at the mission offices

1.         Please bring a photo ID.

2.         Every visitor and his belongings will be required to undergo a security check.

3.         For security purposes, no personal objects will be allowed into the mission, including handbags, mobile phones and electronic devices.

4.         Do not bring large handbags or suitcases to the mission.

5.         Do not bring food and/or beverage bottles or containers.

6.         The mission’s security directives apply to people in the consular waiting room. The instructions of the security staff must be obeyed at all times.

f.          Mailing material to the mission

Material that is mailed to the Consular Department at the mission must be only sent to and collected from the following address:

Embassy of Israel in Belgrade

Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića 47, ( Bulevar Mira )

Dedinje

110000    Beograd

The sender is responsible for material mailed to the mission.

It is important to stress that there are cases in which you are required to visit the mission in person. For more detailed information, see the section on Consular Services in Chapter 2.

If there is a need for document translation services from the local language into Hebrew or vice versa, here ar some contacts:

Translators                 Telephone

Vladimir Arsenic        060 051 0813  /  064 81164 02

Ivana Milojevic           063 670 283

To contact the local Association of interpreters, press the link bellow:

http://www.prevodi.org.rs/srpski/kontakt.htm

This list does not constitute a recommendation for any of the translators appearing on the list. Use of the services of the various translators is the responsibility of the person utilizing the services.

h.         List of criminal attorneys

Below is a list of attorneys who specialize in criminal law, whose services can be retained if necessary. The mission is not permitted or authorized to recommend any particular attorney (click here for a list of attorneys).

To obtain a more detailed list, press the following link for the website of the local Bar Association.

This list does not constitute a recommendation for any of the attorneys appearing on the list. Use of the services of the various attorneys is the responsibility of the person utilizing the services.

i.          Verification of public documents

There are two possibilities for verifying a public document:

1.         Verification by means of apostille

In 1978, Israel signed and ratified the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents - 1961 (hereinafter: the Hague Convention). The purpose of this Convention was to shorten the processes required for a particular country to recognize the official documents issued by another country, by means of apostille certification.

Public documents and certificates that were issued in one of the countries that are signatories to the above Convention, and which bear the apostille stamp, are valid for presentation in Israel, without the need for additional verification / certification by the diplomatic / consular representative at the Israeli mission.

Additionally, for countries that are signatories to the Hague Convention, no additional verification is required by the mission consul of the country for which the document is designated, if it was stamped with an apostille in Israel.

With regard to a list of the countries that signed the Convention, and details about the authority competent to grant apostille certification in each country, as well as additional information, click on the following link: http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.authorities&cid=17

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Directorate for Consular Affairs

(…)

The Appostille is being given by the state organs that issued a document.

The Appostille is the only formality that, on the basis of the Convention regulations, may be requested in order for the public documents made on the territory of one state party to the Convention, to be used on the territory of all states parties to the Convention, with the legal effect of the public documents issued by these states.

The Appostille is being issued on the request of the document holder.

States parties to the Convention freely designate the relevant authority, competent to issue the Appostille. The Convention stipulates which public documents are subject to Appostille and which are not.

The Appostille is being applied to the documents issued by organs or officials of the state judiciary, public prosecution, court registries and court receivers, the administrative documents, documents issued by or certified by the public notary, official statements on entries into public registries, and the official certifications of signatures on private documents.

 It is not being applied to the documents issued by diplomatic-consular representatives and the documents immediately referring to a trade or customs transaction.

 The Appostille should be made in accordance with the designated form, put on the document itself or its annex; it may be written in the official language of the issuing authority, but the title “Appostille Convention de la Haye du 5 octobre 1961” has to be in French, in order for the organs of the states parties to the Convention to be able to recognize and accept it.

In Serbia, the competent authority for issuing the Appostille is the First Degree Court, for public documents drafted, issued or certified by the organs with the seat in this Court’s area.

To have more information press this link: www.mfa.gov.rs/Srpski/konz/ostalo.htm

2.         Verification by means other than a postille

Verification of a document in a country that is not a signatory to the Hague Convention should be implemented as follows:

After the document is verified by the competent authority in the foreign country (usually the Foreign Ministry or Ministry of Justice), the Israeli consular representative verifies the signature of the competent authority.

j.          Contacts and inquiries about improving the service provided to the citizens

•           Email can be sent to the following address:

info@belgrade.mfa.gov.il

•           For feedback on the quality of service provided to the citizens by the mission, click on the following link:

            http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfaheb/feedbackform.htm

k.         The main laws of the State of Israel on which consular work abroad is based, are as follows:

•           The Law of Return, 5710 - 1950 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Entry into Israel Law, 5712 - 1952 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Law of Citizenship, 5712 - 1952 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Passports Law, 5712 - 1952 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Names Law, 5716 - 1956 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Population Registration Law, 5725 - 1965 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Notaries Law, 5736 - 1976 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Defense Service Law (Consolidated Version), 5747 - 1986 and the authority to implement it abroad - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

•           The Crime Register and Rehabilitation of Offenders Law, 5741 - 1981 - with all the amendments thereto over the years.

l.          Details of the Jewish Agency aliya emissary

m. Local characteristics