Visa requirements for Lithuanian citizens

Lithuania belongs to the European free movement area, so Lithuanian citizens need no visa anywhere in the Schengen area and can use a national ID card.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Lithuania and 93 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

No country asks holders of the Lithuanian passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Lithuania without one.

The reverse holds for 64 countries: holders of the Lithuanian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Lithuania (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 59 others).

14 countries ask holders of the Lithuanian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 1 of them has an embassy or consulate on record in Lithuania.

13 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Lithuania, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Lithuania, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Poland (2), Sweden (2), Russia (2) and Belarus (2).

The United States refused 21% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Lithuania in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 71 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 125 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Lithuanian passport

By continent, the Lithuanian passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 20 countries in Asia, 14 countries in Africa and 11 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Lithuanian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days) and Mexico (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Lithuanian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Lithuanian citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba and 20 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 4 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Lithuania’s neighbours

Poland, Belarus and Latvia admit Lithuanian citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Russia (e-Visa for up to 30 days).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Polish passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Latvian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations), the Russian passport ranks 79th (115 destinations) and the Belarusian passport ranks 107th (82 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Lithuania.