Lithuania visa and entry requirements

The Schengen arithmetic

• 90 days in any rolling 180. Not 90 days per visit and not 90 days per country. Every day anywhere in the Schengen area counts against the same allowance.
• Lithuania is a full Schengen member. Arriving from Latvia or Poland involves no passport check at all.
• The Baltic states are one trip for most visitors and they share your 90 days between them.
• The passport must have been issued within the last 10 years and be valid for 3 months beyond your intended departure.

The eastern borders

• The border with Belarus is not a practical route. Crossings have been progressively restricted and the FCDO advises against all travel to Belarus in any case.
• Kaliningrad transit is heavily restricted. The old road and rail transit arrangements across Lithuania have been curtailed; do not plan on them.
• The Polish border is the working land route in and out, and it is an ordinary Schengen internal crossing.
• The border regions themselves are safe to visit. It is the crossings that have stopped functioning normally.

EES: no more stamps

• The EU Entry/Exit System has been fully operational since 10 April 2026.
• Your face and fingerprints are registered on first entry at a Schengen external border, and reused on later trips.
• No stamp goes in your passport. The system computes your 90/180 balance itself.

ETIAS: not yet, and no date

• ETIAS has not launched and there is no announced launch date.
• Applications are not open. Any website selling you an ETIAS today is a scam.
• When it comes, the fee is EUR 20, free for under-18s and over-70s.

Where your nationality lands

• The Schengen short stay visa fee is EUR 90, EUR 45 for children aged 6 to 11.