Every consular network has a handful of offices doing the everyday work, and for Lithuanian nationals around Washington this is one of them: passports, civil records, and documents that have to carry weight back home.
What follows is the contact information on record, the services normally available, how to go about getting an appointment, and the practical points that tend to trip people up.
📞 Quick Contact
- Address: 2622 16th ST NW, Washington
- Phone: (202) 234-5860
- Official website: https://usa.mfa.lt
- Type of office: Embassy
🛂 What this office handles
The list below is what a post of this kind usually covers. Confirm yours before travelling, because services move between offices more often than people assume:
- Visas: where the destination still requires one. The online route has replaced the counter for short visits in most networks.
- Passports: new books and renewals. The booklet itself is produced back home, so the timetable is longer than the appointment suggests.
- Assistance: detention, hospitalisation, a death, a passport stolen before a flight. This is handled outside the ordinary appointment queue.
- Civil status: registering births, marriages and deaths that happened in the United States so they exist in the Lithuanian record.
- Documents: a diploma, a court order or a deed only works abroad once certified. This is where that chain begins or ends.
- Notarial acts: signatures and copies certified for use at home, with every signatory normally required in person.
📅 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.
Confirm the exact fee before the visit. Consular tariffs are revised more often than most people expect, and several posts will not take a payment that is a dollar out.
🤝 Practical notes for Lithuanian nationals in Washington
The first thing to check is jurisdiction. Consular districts are drawn by each country and rarely match state lines neatly, so the Washington office may or may not be the one competent for your address.
If a certificate is old, order a fresh copy. Many offices refuse documents issued beyond a certain age.
Keep copies of everything you submit and every receipt. If a file goes astray, they are what reconstructs it.
Questions people ask about this embassy
Does it handle visas for U.S. citizens travelling to Lithuania?
Many countries have moved visitor visas online, so the consulate may have no role at all. Check whether Lithuania requires one from U.S. citizens before contacting the office.
How do I confirm the requirements before travelling there?
By telephone on (202) 234-5860. Ask about the documents and the exact fee: both change without much notice, and many posts take only cash or a money order.
Can I go there if I live in another state?
Usually not: applications from outside the district are refused. Ask which states the Washington office covers before you travel.
Can I renew a Lithuanian passport here?
Passport work is standard across the Lithuanian consular network, though not every post performs it. Confirm before travelling.