I want to get a visa
- Family
- Work
- I want to get a visa
- I want to receive/renew a temporary residence permit
- Atmintinė darbdaviams (atnaujinta 2025 sausio 22 d.)
- Science
- Legal activity
- Other
- I am a citizen of Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea
- I am coming under a major project investment agreement (Article 15 (7) (6) of the Investment Law)
- I am arriving under an investment agreement which lays down special investment and business conditions (Article 13 (1) (3) and (4) of the Investment Law).
- I participate in international operations, exercises and other events, or I am a dependent of such a person (Article 12 of the Law on International Operations, Military Exercises and Other Military Cooperation Events)
I want to get a visa
I come to work as seasonal worker
You can get a national visa if you come to Lithuania for seasonal job and you have:
• a seasonal work permit issued by the Employment Service for more than 90 days
or
• an extended seasonal work permit if the total period exceeds 90 days
or
• applied for a new or extended seasonal work permit.
First of all, your employer must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) submit mediation letter (in your visa application, you will have to indicate the number of the mediation letter). The employer has to pay a stamp duty of EUR 50 to complete the mediation letter.
To get a national visa you must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) fill-out the application to issue the national visa and include digital copies of the documents being added to this application. After filling-out the request and booking the visitation time you must personally address in regards to the issuance of national visa and submit the biometric data, as well as original documents. Digital copies of these documents shall be added to the application:
1. Valid travel document (passport) that meets the following requirements:
• must be issued in the last ten years;
• must contain at least two blank pages;
• travel document validity term must be at least 3 months longer than the requested visa validity term.
2. Document about sufficient means of subsistence (e. g., employment contract, bank account statement);
The subsistence amount is 1 minimum monthly salary per month, and for a minor alien – 0.5 minimum monthly salary for one month, the amount for return to the country of origin or a foreign country to which you are entitled to travel, the amount of funds – 1 minimum monthly salary.
Funds or received regular income must be sufficient to live in Lithuania for the entire period of validity of the visa. These documents may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.
3. Health insurance document, valid during the stay in Lithuania and in all the Schengen countries.
Health insurance must guarantee the reimbursement of the necessary medical expenses, as defined in the Republic of Lithuania Law on Health, and expenses that may arise due to the return of the alien to a foreign state for health reasons (transportation, including escort of a personal health care specialist (specialists)). The sum insured must be at least EUR 30,000.
You have to pay a fee – EUR 140.
If you are exempt from this fee in the cases provided by law, you must provide documents confirming these circumstances.
For the issue of a national visa, you must apply to:
• an external service provider if you are abroad;
• the Migration Department if you are legally in Lithuania.
The decision to issue a national visa is made within 15 calendar days from the date of the request. This period may be extended by up to 45 calendar days.
Important:
• an alien who has received a seasonal work permit issued to an alien by the Employment Service for a period of up to 90 days or an extended seasonal work permit if the total period does not exceed 90 days or has applied for a new seasonal permit or extension of the permit, may apply on this basis for issuing a Schengen visa abroad. In this case, the alien must submit a copy of the seasonal work permit issued or extended by the Employment Service to the alien in accordance with the procedure established by legal acts, or a certificate from the Employment Service that an application for a new or extended seasonal work permit has been received;
• if you have been issued with a national visa for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity period of 1 year, you may be issued with another national visa if more than 180 days had elapsed from your previous visa or the total validity period of all visas you had. The total period of validity of several national visas must be counted from the date of issue of the previous national visa, if less than 180 days have elapsed since the expiry of its validity;
• if you are holding a national visa, valid for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity of 1 year, and intending to apply for a temporary residence permit, in order to stay in Lithuania during the consideration of the application will have to submit this application in advance – 1,5 to 3 months before the expiry of the actual national visa.
I am seconded to work in Lithuania
You can get a national visa if you are an employee of a company established in a foreign country that is not a member state of the European Union or the European Free Trade Association, work under an open-ended employment contract, are seconded by this company to work temporarily in a company in the Republic of Lithuania and are covered by social insurance in that country.
First of all, inviting company must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) submit mediation letter (in your visa application, you will have to indicate the number of the mediation letter). The employer has to pay a stamp duty of EUR 50 to complete the mediation letter.
To get a national visa you must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) fill-out the application to issue the national visa and include digital copies of the documents being added to this application. After filling-out the request and booking the visitation time you must personally address in regards to the issuance of national visa and submit the biometric data, as well as original documents. Digital copies of these documents shall be added to the application:
1. Valid travel document (passport) that meets the following requirements:
• must be issued in the last ten years;
• must contain at least two blank pages;
• travel document validity term must be at least 3 months longer than the requested visa validity term.
2. Document about sufficient means of subsistence (e. g., employment contract, bank account statement);
The subsistence amount is 1 minimum monthly salary per month, the amount for return to the country of origin or a foreign country to which you are entitled to travel, the amount of funds – 1 minimum monthly salary.
Funds or received regular income must be sufficient to live in Lithuania for the entire period of validity of the visa. These documents may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.
3. Health insurance document, valid during the stay in Lithuania and in all the Schengen countries.
Health insurance must guarantee the reimbursement of the necessary medical expenses, as defined in the Republic of Lithuania Law on Health, and expenses that may arise due to the return of the alien to a foreign state for health reasons (transportation, including escort of a personal health care specialist (specialists)). The sum insured must be at least EUR 30,000.
You have to pay a fee – EUR 140.
If you are exempt from this fee in the cases provided by law, you must provide documents confirming these circumstances.
For the issue of a national visa, you must apply to:
• an external service provider if you are abroad;
• the Migration Department if you are legally in Lithuania.
The decision to issue a national visa is made within 15 calendar days from the date of the request. This period may be extended by up to 45 calendar days.
Important:
• the national visa is issued for a maximum of 1 year;
• if you have been issued with a national visa for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity period of 1 year, you may be issued with another national visa if more than 180 days had elapsed from your previous visa or the total validity period of all visas you had. The total period of validity of several national visas must be counted from the date of issue of the previous national visa, if less than 180 days have elapsed since the expiry of its validity;
• if you are holding a national visa, valid for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity of 1 year, and intending to apply for a temporary residence permit, in order to stay in Lithuania during the consideration of the application will have to submit this application in advance – 1,5 to 3 months before the expiry of the actual national visa.
I'm going to a ship flying the flag of the Republic of Lithuania or I am a crew member of a ship that is being repaired in Lithuania. What should I do?
You can get a national visa if you are seafarer and:
• going to a ship flying the flag of the Republic of Lithuania;
or
• you a crew member of a ship that is being repaired in Lithuania.
First of all, inviting company must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) submit mediation letter (in your visa application, you will have to indicate the number of the mediation letter).
To get a national visa you must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) fill-out the application to issue the national visa and include digital copies of the documents being added to this application. After filling-out the request and booking the visitation time you must personally address in regards to the issuance of national visa and submit the biometric data, as well as original documents. Digital copies of these documents shall be added to the application:
1. Valid travel document (passport) that meets the following requirements:
• must be issued in the last ten years;
• must contain at least two blank pages;
• travel document validity term must be at least 3 months longer than the requested visa validity term.
2. Document about sufficient means of subsistence (e. g., employment contract, bank account statement);
The subsistence amount is 1 minimum monthly salary per month, the amount for return to the country of origin or a foreign country to which you are entitled to travel, the amount of funds – 1 minimum monthly salary.
Funds or received regular income must be sufficient to live in Lithuania for the entire period of validity of the visa. These documents may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.
3. Health insurance document, valid during the stay in Lithuania and in all the Schengen countries.
Health insurance must guarantee the reimbursement of the necessary medical expenses, as defined in the Republic of Lithuania Law on Health, and expenses that may arise due to the return of the alien to a foreign state for health reasons (transportation, including escort of a personal health care specialist (specialists)). The sum insured must be at least EUR 30,000.
You have to pay a fee – EUR 140.
If you are exempt from this fee in the cases provided by law, you must provide documents confirming these circumstances.
For the issue of a national visa, you must apply to:
• an external service provider if you are abroad;
• the Migration Department if you are legally in Lithuania.
The decision to issue a national visa is made within 15 calendar days from the date of the request. This period may be extended by up to 45 calendar days.
Important:
• the national visa is issued for a maximum of 1 year;
• if you have been issued with a national visa for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity period of 1 year, you may be issued with another national visa if more than 180 days had elapsed from your previous visa or the total validity period of all visas you had. The total period of validity of several national visas must be counted from the date of issue of the previous national visa, if less than 180 days have elapsed since the expiry of its validity;
• if you are holding a national visa, valid for 1 year or several national visas with a total validity of 1 year, and intending to apply for a temporary residence permit, in order to stay in Lithuania during the consideration of the application will have to submit this application in advance – 1,5 to 3 months before the expiry of the actual national visa.