Lithuania: visa and entry rules
What you need to get in, how long you may stay, and what an overstay costs
Lithuania's borders: every crossing point
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With the Kaliningrad region the Kybartai - Chernyshevskoye and Panemune - Sovetsk crossings are open.
Rail transit to Kaliningrad runs through Lithuania - under a special procedure, separate from the ordinary visa rules.
The requirement to obtain a permit to enter the border zone with Russia and Belarus has been abolished by Lithuania.
With Belarus most crossings are closed or working with restrictions.
With Latvia and Poland the borders are inside the Schengen area, with no permanent control.
By sea there are ferries to Sweden and Germany from Klaipeda.
Bringing a car into Lithuania
The practical option is to rent a car once you are in Europe.
A Green Card is compulsory.
Winter tyres are compulsory in the cold season.
Travelling to Lithuania with a pet
The rules are the same across the whole EU.
An ISO-standard microchip is compulsory, and it is implanted BEFORE the rabies vaccination - otherwise the vaccination does not count.
Rabies vaccination - not before 12 weeks of age, and 21 days must pass between the vaccination and entry.
A rabies antibody titre test is required only for pets from a country not on the EU's approved list. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK are on the list, so this does not apply to pets travelling from those countries; Russia is one of the countries it does apply to. Blood is taken no earlier than 30 days after the vaccination, followed by a three-month wait before entry.
An EU veterinary certificate is required, issued by the state veterinary service.
No more than five animals per person without commercial paperwork.
Overstaying your visa in Lithuania
The violation is recorded across the whole Schengen area, not for an individual country.
The main consequence is a refusal of your next visa. The record stays in the system, and getting a Schengen visa afterwards becomes considerably harder.
An entry ban for a substantial overstay applies to the entire area at once.
Days are counted across the whole of Schengen. The typical mistake is to count the stay in each country separately.
What else to check before you go
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Entry rules change faster than anything else on this site, and they change without notice. We cross-check every page against several sources and state the date it was verified, but that does not replace the main step: before you travel, check an official source — the country’s consulate, its immigration service or its e-visa portal. Especially if more than a couple of months have passed since our check.