Admissibility criteria

Admissibility criteria

Application for Schengen visa is considered admissible and is further examined, if:

a) it is lodged no more than 6 months (for seafarers in the performance of their duties – no more than 9 months) before the start of the intended visit, and, as a rule, no later than 15 calendar days before the start of the intended visit. In justified individual cases of urgency, the Embassy may allow the lodging of applications later than 15 calendar days before the start of the intended visit;

b) application form for Schengen visa, completed at https://visa.vrm.lt/epm in Lithuanian or English language, is submitted. Completed application form shall be printed out and signed by the applicant. Persons included in the applicant’s travel document shall submit a separate application form. Minors shall submit an application form signed by a person exercising permanent or temporary parental authority or legal guardianship;

c) a valid travel document satisfying the following criteria is presented:

• its validity shall extend at least 3 months after the intended date of departure from the territory of the Member States or, in the case of several visits, after the last intended date of departure from the territory of the Member States. However, in a justified case of emergency, this obligation may be waived;
• it shall contain at least 2 blank pages;
• it shall have been issued within the previous 10 years.

d) one colour photo following a Photograph Guidelines is presented;

e) the biometric identifiers of the applicant — his 10 fingerprints taken flat and collected digitally are collected.

Where fingerprints collected from the applicant for Schengen visa as part of an earlier application were entered in the VIS for the first time less than 59 months before the date of the current application, they are copied to the current application for Schengen visa and not collected anew. If at the time when the application of Schengen visa is lodged, it cannot be immediately confirmed that the fingerprints were collected within the period of the last 59 months before the date of the current application, the applicant may request that they be collected.

Where there is reasonable doubt regarding the identity of the applicant, the Embassy collects fingerprints within the period within the period of the last 59 months before the date of the current application.

The following applicants are exempt from the requirement to give fingerprints:

• children under the age of 12;
• persons for whom fingerprinting is physically impossible. If the fingerprinting of fewer than 10 fingers is possible, the maximum number of fingerprints shall be taken;
• heads of State or government and members of a national government with accompanying spouses, and the members of their official delegation when they are invited by Member States’ governments or by international organisations for an official purpose;
• sovereigns and other senior members of a royal family, when they are invited by Member States’ governments or by international organisations for an official purpose.

f) the visa fee is collected.