Visa requirements for Lithuanian citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of Lithuania by the authorities of other states. As of February 2018, Lithuanian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 166 countries and territories, ranking the Lithuanian passport 13th (tied with Polish passport) in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
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Changes
Many countries began relaxing visa restrictions since Lithuanian independence in 1990 including Denmark (September 1992), Hungary (September 1992), Czechoslovakia (October 1992), Norway (March 1993), Poland (May 1993), Cyprus (July 1995), Malta (October 1995), Slovenia (May 1996), Bulgaria (December 1996) Iceland (April 1997), Finland (August 1997), Switzerland (January 1998), Austria (February 1999), Germany (March 1999), Greece (March 1999), France (March 1999) Chile (May 1999) Portugal (August 1999) Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands (November 1999) Spain (April 2000), Uruguay (May 2000), Japan (May 2000) and Israel (June 2000).
Following countries have restored visa for Lithuanian citizens: Kazakhstan (22 October 1993, was resumed in 2017), Moldova (1 November 1993, was resumed in 2006), Russia (19 April 1994)
Since Lithuanian 2004 accession to the European Union (EU), visa restrictions for Lithuanian citizens were relaxed. Following the accession to the European Union in 2004 and the Schengen Area in 2008, visa requirements were lifted by many countries including Macau (February 2002), Hong Kong (February 2002), Slovakia (March 2002), South Korea (April 2002), Albania (May 2003), Serbia and Montenegro (May 2003), Argentina (December 2003) Panama (February 2004) Ukraine (July 2004), Costa Rica (November 2004), Mauritius (November 2004), New Zealand (April 2005), Paraguay (April 2005), Georgia (June 2005), Moldova (7 July 2005), Macedonia (July 2005), Thailand (July 2005), Bosnia and Herzegovina (July 2005), Brunei (1 October 2006), Canada (March 2008), Antigua and Barbuda (2008), Taiwan (November 2008), United States (November 2008), Brazil (January 2009) and Turkey (November 2009).
Recently visa requirements for Lithuanian citizens were also lifted by Kyrgyzstan (July 2012), Armenia (January 2013), the United Arab Emirates, Timor-Leste, Samoa (May 2015), Sao Tome and Principe (August 2015), Indonesia (October 2015), Tonga (November 2015), Palau (December 2015), Marshall Islands (June 2016), Tuvalu (July 2016) Solomon Islands (October 2016), Kazakhstan (January 2017), Belarus (February 2017) and Qatar (August 2017).
Lithuanian citizens were made eligible for eVisas recently by Angola (March 2018), Djibouti (February 2018), Egypt (December 2017), Azerbaijan (January 2017), Tajikistan (June 2016), India (May 2015) and Myanmar (October 2014).
In 2014, Lithuania ranked 14th on the list of countries based on the visa requirements for their citizens. This means that Lithuanians can travel to 157 countries and territories visa-free or can obtain visa on arrival. In 2009 Lithuanian citizens could travel to 125 countries without a visa, to 140 in 2010, and 149 in 2012.
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Visa requirements
Territories
Visa requirements for Lithuanian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas and restricted zones:
- Europe
- Abkhazia -- Visa required.
- Artsakh -- Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months).
Travellers with Artsakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Artsakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan. - Mount Athos -- Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.
- Brest and Grodno -- Visa not required for 10 days.
- Crimea -- Visa issued by Russia is required.
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -- Visa free access for 3 months. Passport or ID card is required.
- UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus -- Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
- Gibraltar -- Visa not required.
- Jan Mayen -- permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.
- Svalbard of Norway -- Visa not Required (Unlimited Stay under Svalbard Treaty).
- Kosovo -- visa free for 90 days.
- South Ossetia -- Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.
- Transnistria -- Visa free. Registration required after 24h.
- Africa
- British Indian Ocean Territory -- special permit required.
- Eritrea (outside Asmara) -- visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Ascension Island -- Entry Permit must be obtained minimum 28 days in advance (3 months for 20/30 pounds sterling, single/double entry).
- Saint Helena -- Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.
- Tristan da Cunha -- Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.
- Reunion -- Unlimited Stay
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) -- undefined visa regime.
- Somaliland -- visa required (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).
- Asia
- Hong Kong -- Visa not required for 90 days.
- India -- Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for all of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and parts of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.
- Macao -- Visa not required for 90 days.
- North Korea outside Pyongyang - People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
- Palestine Visa not required. Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.
- Taiwan -- Visa not required for 90 days.
- Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province -- OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.
- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).
- Korean Demilitarized Zone -- restricted zone.
- UNDOF Zone and Ghajar -- restricted zones.
- Caribbean and North Atlantic
- Anguilla -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Aruba -- Visa not required for 30 days.
- Bermuda -- Visa not required.
- Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- British Virgin Islands -- Visa not required.
- Cayman Islands -- Visa not required for 6 months.
- Curaçao -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Montserrat -- Visa not required for 6 months.
- Puerto Rico -- Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
- Sint Maarten -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Turks and Caicos Islands -- Visa not required for 30 days.
- U.S. Virgin Islands -- Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
- Oceania
- American Samoa -- Visa required (entry permit).
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands -- special authorisation required.
- Clipperton Island -- special permit required.
- Cook Islands -- Visa free access for 31 days.
- Guam -- Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
- Niue -- Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.
- Pitcairn Islands -- 14 days visa free and landing fee 35 USD or tax of 5 USD if not going ashore.
- Tokelau -- Entry permit required.
- United States Minor Outlying Islands -- special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.
- South Atlantic and Antarctica
- Falkland Islands -- Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -- Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).
- Antarctica and adjacent islands -- special permits required for British Antarctic Territory, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.
Non-ordinary passports
Holders of various categories of official Lithuanian passports have additional visa-free access to the following countries - Azerbaijan (diplomatic passports), China (diplomatic or service passports), Kazakhstan (diplomatic passports) and Russia (diplomatic passports). Holders of diplomatic or service passports of any country have visa-free access to Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.
Non-visa restrictions
Passport validity length
Many countries require passports to be valid for at least 6 months upon arrival. Note that some nations have bilateral agreements with other countries to shorten the passport validity cut-off period for each other's citizens.
Countries requiring passports to be valid at least 6 months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain, Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (except when arriving at Basra and Erbil or Sulaimaniyah), Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include European Union countries (except Denmark, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and always excepting EU/EEA/Swiss nationals), Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Nauru, Panama, Saint Barthélemy, San Marino, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.
Countries that require a passport validity of at least 1 month on arrival include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Macao, New Zealand and South Africa.
Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.
Blank passport pages
Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages in the passport being presented, generally one or two pages. Endorsement pages which oftentimes appear after the visa pages are not counted.
Vaccination
Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.
Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area.
Israeli stamps
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.
To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel. Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport, giving passengers a card instead: "Since January 2013 a pilot scheme has been introduced whereby visitors are given an entry card instead of an entry stamp on arrival. You should keep this card with your passport until you leave. This is evidence of your legal entry into Israel and may be required, particularly at any crossing points into the Occupied Palestinian Territories." Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when travelling into and out of Gaza. Also, passports are still stamped (as of 22 June 2017) at the Jordan Valley/Sheikh Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin/Arava land borders with Jordan.
- Iran: Admission is refused for holders of passports containing an Israeli visa/stamp in the last 12 months
Armenian ethnicity
Due to a state of war existing between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the government of Azerbaijan not only bans entry of citizens from Armenia, but also all citizens and nationals of any other country who are of Armenian descent, to the Republic of Azerbaijan (although there have been exceptions, notably for Armenia's participation at the 2015 European Games held in Azerbaijan).
Azerbaijan also strictly bans any visit by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxar? ?skipara, Barxudarl? and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under control of Armenia, without the prior consent of the government of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens who enter these occupied territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae". As of late 2017 the list contains 699 persons.
Upon request, the Republic of Artsakh authorities may attach their visa and/or stamps to a separate piece of paper in order to avoid detection of travel to their country.
Persona non grata
The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning their entry into that country. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity. Attempts to enter the Gaza strip by sea may attract a 10-year ban on entering Israel.
Fingerprinting
Several countries including Argentina, Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States demand all travellers, or all foreign travellers, to be fingerprinted on arrival.
Criminal record
Some countries (for example, Canada and the United States) routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.
Right to consular protection in non-EU countries
When in a non-EU country where there is no Lithuanian embassy, Lithuanian citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.
See also List of diplomatic missions of Lithuania.
See also
- Visa requirements for the European Union citizens
- Lithuanian passport
- Visa policy in the European Union
References
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