You can get a national multiple-entry visa.

You must submit the following documents:

Foreigner who is an athlete participating in a high-caliber sport or coach, as defined in the Republic of Lithuania Sports Act, coming to the Republic of Lithuania to engage in sports activities or being a member of this foreigner's family

 1. a request for the issue of a national visa, completed by electronic means for completing the application.

The application must be completed in Latin characters, printed and submitted together with the documents for a visa. You can fill in the application on the website: https://visa.vrm.lt/epm/

2. valid travel document;

A valid travel document must meet 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;

3. 1 colour photo (35x45 mm);

4. Electronically submitted mediation letter from high mastery sports or coaching organisation (the number of mediation letter must be indicated for the visa service);

The mediation letter is provided through the Information system of public services related to the issue of personal and other documents, consultations for citizens in the Republic of Lithuania and aliens (EPIS).

5. contract on sports activities or employment contract;

6. Document about sufficient means of subsistence;

The amount of subsistence for an adult alien is 1 minimum monthly salary per month, for a minor alien – 0.5 monthly salary per month, the amount of return funds – 1 minimum monthly salary.

7. Health insurance document, valid during the stay in Lithuania and in all the Schengen countries(if a mediation letter is submited no health insurance document is needed. VISA services has right to require submiting this document).

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 60.

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:

• the Lithuanian visa service in a foreign country or through the application centre for visa applications of the external service provider, if you are abroad;
• to Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda territorial divisions of the Migration departament 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 up to a maximum of 30 calendar days in individual cases. By way of exception, where additional documents are required in specific cases, this period may be extended to a maximum of 60 calendar days.

If you arrive as an athlete participating in a high mastery sports or coaching and apply for a multiple-entry national visa, your family members may also be issued with multiple-entry national visas. More information can be found here.

Important:

• the national visa is issued for a maximum of one year;
• if you have been issued with a multiple-entry national visa for one year, you may be issued with another multiple-entry national visa if more than 180 days had expired from your previous visa or the total validity period of all visas you had. The total period of validity of several multiple-entry national visas must be counted from the date of issue of the previous multiple-entry national visa, if less than 180 days have elapsed since the expiry of its validity;
• if you have been issued with a multiple-entry national visa valid for 1 year or several multiple-entry national visas with a total validity of 1 year, less than 180 days have elapsed since this or the expiry date of this or these visas and you have applied for a residence permit in Lithuania, you may be issued with a multiple-entry national visa for a maximum of 5 months from the date of application for a residence permit in Lithuania if you apply for a national visa in the Republic of Lithuania.