Legalisation of documents and approval certificate (Apostille)
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 send-out 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 pre-trial 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.
Due to unusually enormous backlog of sent-out incoming documents, handling and legalisation of latter documents is taking longer than is determined in the applicable legislation.
For document presentation you have to book an appointment time registering for the document legalisation service.
