Legalisation of documents

Documents for legalisation which are issued by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Algeria) are to be presented for legalisation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania or to the Embassy of Lithuania in Belgium (the Lithuanian Embassy). Latter documents from Algeria to be submitted to the Embassy must be already additionally attested by the Consulate General of Algeria in Brussels.

Other documents issued by countries being non-member states of the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille Convention), which are to be legalised may be accepted by the Lithuanian Embassy only from persons who legally reside in Belgium and are issued to them. These persons may submit for legalisation their own documents or the documents of their family members (parents, spouses, children). NOTE: such documents, provided they have been additionally attested by the Embassy or Consular Post of the respective country, which are resident in Belgium will be accepted for legalisation by the Lithuanian Embassy.

Documents for legalisation are to be submitted in person.

Registration for appointment

When submitting documents for legalisation, following elements are to be included:

• the document (original or a notarised copy [in case of documents originating from Lithuania]) to be legalised;
• one (1) appointment is for presentation of up to 3 documents;
• valid passport or other identity document of the person submitting the document for legalisation;
• valid document proving residence in Belgium of the person submitting document for legalisation;
• a free-form request (an application letter providing following information: country in which the legalised document is to be submitted and applicant’s contact details (e-mail address and telephone No);
• consular fee for legalisation of one document - 30 EUR. Payment is payable using applicant’s banking card.

Upon legalisation of the documents the applicant is notified using contact data from respective request / free form application letter as laid-out above.

Legalisation of document is a verification of the signature, the position of the signatory and the stamp in the document in cases of bearing the stamp applied on the document. 

NOTE: legalisation of police clearance certificates for foreign citizens who intend to study in Lithuania is undertaken at the MFA of the Republic of Lithuania through the respective educational institutions. Therefore the students should contact the latter educational institutions in Lithuania, in which they plan to study and to clarify the process of legalisation of their documents.

Documents have to be orderly and readable. If the document consists of few pages, they have to be affixed or sewn together.

Each document is approved separately (e. g. diploma and its appendix are two (2) separate documents).