ATTENTION: FOR TURKISH AND FOREIGN NATIONALS TRAVELING TO LITHUANIA
The temporary restrictions of non-essential travel to the EU countries remains effective for most of foreign nationals and Turkish citizens (including holders of Turkish special passports) except those listed in the EU Council’s decision
Foreign and non-EU nationals who are exempted from the temporary travel restrictions to Lithuania:
-Family members of the EU citizens covered by Directive EC/2004/38;
-Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals;
-Frontier workers;
-Transport personnel engaged in haulage of goods and other transport staff to the extent necessary;
-Diplomats, staff of international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers in the exercise of their functions;
-Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons;
-Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons;
-Lithuanian National (D) visa holders;
-Persons with a COVID-19 vaccination certificate stating that they were fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech.
As of 10 March, people coming to Lithuania will be required to have a negative result of a PCR test for COVID-19 taken at maximum 72 hours before the entry to the Republic of Lithuania and to stay in mandatory isolation for 10 days after returning or arriving in Lithuania. The PCR test result will have to be translated into Lithuanian, English, or Russian.
Testing and self-isolation exemptions: https://nvsc.lrv.lt/en/information-on-covid-19/for-arrivals-from-abroad/everything-you-need-to-know-about-isolation/isolation-exemptions
There is a possibility of shortening the self-isolation time by taking a coronavirus test (PCR), at personal expense, on the 7th day of self-isolation at the earliest, with a negative response thereof.
Travelers will be required to complete an online registration form prior to arrival in Lithuania and to show the confirmation (QR code) to the carrier when boarding the vehicle, and those travelling by their own transport will have to show it to the NPHC staff or other officials at the border checkpoint or passenger checkpoint.
If foreigners arrive in Lithuania for work or have a separate permission by the Minister of the relevant field, and their arrival is approved by the Government, and if those persons are required to stay in isolation, the employer, the inviting person or foreigners themselves must pay for the isolation premises as well as transportation to the isolation premises and to the place of taking a swab for the coronavirus infection.
For more information, please visit Ministry of Health of Lithuania at https://sam.lrv.lt/en/
