ATTENTION, IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION!

AS OF THE 18TH OF JANUARY 2024, DOCUMENTS PRESENTED FOR LEGALISATION USING COURIER SERVICES WILL CEASE TO BE ACCEPTED.

Starting with the latter date documents will be accepted only directly at the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (further Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Therefore, documents which will have been presented via courier services or otherwise from the latter date (regardless the respective document sendout date), will neither be considered nor legalised accordingly. For such shipment retrieval applicants are therefore asked to collect their respective documents either in person at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or using courier of applicant’s order.

Documents for legalisation when presented via courier will be admitted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only in cases of their presentation via diplomatic representations and consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania as well when submitted by courts, prosecutor’s offices and pretrial investigation bodies, as established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania at the 30th October 2006 resolution No 1079 in regard of "The establishment of the guidance concerning the procedure of document legalisation and approval certificate (Apostille)", in points 10 and 11 thereof.

For document presentation you have to book an appointment time registering for the document legalisation service.



Applicants’ admission times:

For document presentation: Monday to Friday 9am–12pm
For document collection: Monday to Friday 2pm–3pm
Documents for legalisation are to be submitted directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Documents may be presented either in person or via your representative (proof of representation is not required).

When submitting documents for legalisation, following elements are to be included:

the document (original or a notarised copy [in case of documents originating from Lithuania]) to be legalised;
one (1) appointment is for presentation of up to 3 documents;
valid passport or other identity document of the person submitting the document for legalisation;
a freeform request (an application letter including following information: country in which the legalised document is to be submitted and applicant’s contact details (email address and telephone No);
consular fee for legalisation of one document 20 EUR. Payment is payable using applicant’s banking card.
Upon legalisation of documents, the applicant is notified using contact data from respective request / free form application letter as laidout above.

Legalisation of documents allows official documents originating from one country to be recognized when presented in another country.

Legalisation of document is a verification of the signature, the position of the signatory, and the stamp in the document in cases of bearing the stamp applied on the document. Legalisation of document is carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic representations or consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania.



Each document is approved separately (e. g. diploma and its appendix are two (2) separate documents). MFA LITHUANIA


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