your documents
A lighter file than Poland's or Spain's, with one question that has to be answered before anything else: where you actually lodge it.
The set below is what a Nepali applicant is normally asked for at the Type D visa stage. Your university and the Migration Department each publish their own list, and those govern.
Acceptance letter
From a recognised Lithuanian higher education institution.
Legalised academic documents
The full chain, because Nepal has no apostille.
Translations
Confirm the language and form of certification with your university — this varies and is worth asking about rather than assuming.
Proof of funds
A bank statement in your own or a sponsor's name, or a scholarship confirmation.
Health insurance
Mandatory, and required before the visa is issued rather than on arrival.
Passport and photographs
To the visa centre's specification, with biometrics at lodgement.
Accommodation evidence
Dormitory confirmation is usually the simplest form.
Tuition payment evidence
Where your institution requires it before the visa stage.
After arrival you will apply for the temporary residence permit, which needs its own set — and which is the document that carries your work rights.
This is the question to answer before you do anything else, because it changes the cost of the whole application. Lithuania has no embassy in Nepal, and applications go through a visa centre designated by the Migration Department — which may mean submitting in Kathmandu, or travelling to New Delhi. Ask your university in writing. The Nepali offices below are where the legalisation chain happens either way.
Department of Consular Services, MoFA
MoEST — Foreign Study Approval (NOC) section
Start legalisation before your offer
Nepal is not in the Hague Apostille Convention, so documents need the full chain. It does not depend on admission and it is the longest item.
Ask what translation is required
Lithuania's requirements are less onerous than Poland's certified Polish or Spain's traducción jurada, but confirm the language and certification with your university rather than assuming.
Arrange insurance before the visa, not after
It is a precondition of issue. Treating it as an arrival task stops the application — the same ordering mistake Czechia catches people with.
Plan the residence permit from day one
It carries your work rights, and there is a period on the D visa before it exists when those rights do not apply. Start it promptly.
Why legalisation is needed: Nepal is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, so there is no single apostille certificate — documents go through a chain of offices instead
And the ordering rule: health insurance must be in place before the visa is issued, not arranged on arrival
Two things we could not verify to the standard we would like, both flagged rather than smoothed over.
The subsistence figure: around €500 a month, but not verified officially
The term-time work cap: sources disagree — full-time or twenty hours
The second is the more consequential. The difference between twenty hours and full-time is the difference between a supplement and a funding plan, and we are not going to resolve it by choosing the more attractive number. Ask the Migration Department and your university, and get the answer in writing.
Most of your file is issued in Nepal and is identical whichever destination you choose. Each of these has its own guide with the office address, the fee and the steps.
For a medical place at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, make sure the NOC names a university the Nepal Medical Council recognises.