Submitting an application and supporting documents

Submitting an application and supporting documents

In Türkiye applications have to be lodged at the Lithuanian Visa Application Centres.

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Türkiye does not accept directly applications for Schengen visas. 

Residents of Pakistan have to apply for a visa to Lithuania at the Embassy of Hungary in Islamabad. Please contact the Embassy directly for further information.

Residents of Iran have to apply for a visa to Lithuania at the Embassy of Spain in Tehran. Please contact the Embassy directly for further information.

Supporting documents

Applications shall be lodged no more than six months, and for seafarers in the performance of their duties no more than nine months, before the start of the intended visit, and, as a rule, no later than 15 calendar days before the start of the intended visit. In justified individual cases of urgency, the visa authority of the Republic of Lithuania or the central authorities may allow the lodging of applications later than 15 calendar days before the start of the intended visit.

Each applicant shall submit a manually or electronically completed application form in Lithuanian or English. The application form shall be signed. Persons included in the applicant’s travel document shall submit a separate application form. Minors shall submit an application form signed by a person exercising permanent or temporary parental authority or legal guardianship.

The applicant shall present a valid travel document satisfying the following criteria:

• its validity shall extend at least three months after the intended date of departure from the territory of the Member States or, in the case of several visits, after the last intended date of departure from the territory of the Member States. However, in a justified case of emergency, this obligation may be waived;
• it shall contain at least two blank pages;
• it shall have been issued within the previous 10 years.

The following biometric identifiers of the applicant shall be collected:

• a photograph (according to this sample), scanned or taken at the time of application, and
• 10 fingerprints taken flat and collected digitally.

Where fingerprints as part of an earlier application were collected for the first time less than 59 months before the date of the new application, they shall be copied to the subsequent application. If at the time when the application is lodged, it cannot be immediately confirmed that the fingerprints were collected within the period of 59 months, the applicant may request that they be collected.

The following applicants shall be exempt from the requirement to give fingerprints:

• children under the age of 12;
• persons for whom fingerprinting is physically impossible. If the fingerprinting of fewer than 10 fingers is possible, the maximum number of fingerprints shall be taken. However, should the impossibility be temporary, the applicant shall be required to give the fingerprints at the following application;
• heads of State or government and members of a national government with accompanying spouses, and the members of their official delegation when they are invited by Schengen Member States’ governments or by international organisations for an official purpose;
• sovereigns and other senior members of a royal family, when they are invited by Schengen Member States’ governments or by international organisations for an official purpose.

However, where there is reasonable doubt regarding the identity of the applicant, the visa authority of the Republic of Lithuania shall collect fingerprints within the period of 59 months.

Applicants shall pay a visa fee.

Visa authorities of the Republic of Lithuania are competent for examining and deciding on an application for a uniform visa if:

a) Lithuanian territory constitutes the sole destination of the visit(s);

b) if the visit includes more than one destination, or if several separate visits are to be carried out within a period of two months, Lithuanian territory shall constitute the main destination of the visit(s) in terms of the length of stay, counted in days, or the purpose of stay; or

c) if no main destination can be determined, Lithuanian external border should be first the applicant intends to cross in order to enter the territory of Schengen Member States.

2. Visa authorities of the Republic of Lithuania are competent for examining and deciding on an application for a uniform visa for the purpose of transit if:

a) in the case of transit through Lithuania only; or

b) in the case of transit through several Schengen Member States, Lithuanian external border should be first the applicant intends to cross to start the transit.

An application shall be examined and decided on by the visa authority of the Republic of Lithuania in whose jurisdiction the applicant legally resides.

The visa authority of the Republic of Lithuania shall examine and decide on an application lodged by a third-country national legally present but not residing in its jurisdiction, if the applicant has provided justification for lodging the application at that visa authority.