Every consular network has a handful of offices doing the everyday work, and for Lithuanian nationals around Los Angeles this is one of them: passports, civil records, and documents that have to carry weight back home.
Read on for the details, the usual remit, the appointment position, and a few things learned the hard way by people who got there and were turned away.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 11766 Wilshire BLVD 560, Los Angeles
- Phone: (424) 341-8701
- Official website: http://la.mfa.lt
- Type of office: Consulate General
🛂 What this office handles
The services below are typical rather than guaranteed. Networks move work between offices without much announcement:
- Civil status: registering births, marriages and deaths that happened in the United States so they exist in the Lithuanian record.
- Visas: where the destination still requires one. The online route has replaced the counter for short visits in most networks.
- Documents: the stamps that turn a domestic paper into one a foreign office will actually accept.
- Powers of attorney and notarial acts: signed in front of a consular officer, which usually saves the whole legalisation chain afterwards.
- Emergencies: arrest, accident, serious illness or the death of a relative. Say it is an emergency when you call, because it changes how the call is handled.
- Passports: issue and renewal for Lithuanian nationals. Check which documents prove your identity before booking, because the list is longer than people assume.
📅 Booking a visit
Waiting times swing with the season. Summer and the weeks before the school year are the worst of it.
The office publishes its own booking arrangements. Booking through official channels costs nothing; sites charging to secure or speed up a slot are intermediaries, and consulates regularly warn against them.
Have everything ready before you book: the forms filled in, the identity documents to hand, and the fee in the form the office accepts. Turning up short of one paper usually means starting again.
🤝 Things worth checking first
Being in the same state is not the same as being in the district. Ask, because the answer decides where your file goes.
If a certificate is old, order a fresh copy. Many offices refuse documents issued beyond a certain age.
Allow more time than seems necessary. Between appointment waits, production abroad and return postage, a routine document can take months end to end.
Questions people ask about this consulate general
Where exactly is this consulate general?
At 11766 Wilshire BLVD 560, in Los Angeles. Check the floor or suite number before travelling — it is the detail that ruins more visits than anything else.
Which source wins if there is a contradiction?
The office’s own, at la.mfa.lt. No directory, this one included, replaces the official source.
How do I confirm the requirements before travelling there?
By telephone on (424) 341-8701. Ask about the documents and the exact fee: both change without much notice, and many posts take only cash or a money order.
How do I know which office is mine?
By the consular district assigned to it, not by distance. It is the first thing worth asking on the phone.