Who is the source of criminal check data in Lithuania?
The Information Technology and Communications Department under the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
What is the process in Lithuania?
The requesting party will request the check from the ATS or their Zinc account.
- Automated instructions are delivered to provide some personal details, a copy of their ID and an Application Form in a dynamic web form
- Zinc submits the request to the authorities
- Zinc receives the results (digitally) and provides a signed digital report
- The candidate receives a text to say the process is complete.
What details are required from the candidate to submit the check?
- First Name
- Last Name
- Birth Date
- Current Address
- Specific Application Form (Wet and digital signatures are acceptable/ Lithuanian Personal Code must be mandatory indicated in the form for Lithuanian citizens.)
- Passport/ID Copy*
- Consent
* For Citizens: A valid Lithuanian "Asmens Tapatybės Kortelės" ID copy/ A valid Lithuanian Passport. For Non-citizens: Foreign passport copy.
What is covered in the criminal check?
The Certificates and Extracts from the Register of Suspects, Accused persons and Convicted
persons to Natural and Legal persons (Įtariamųjų, kaltinamųjų ir nuteistųjų registro pažymų ir
išrašų teikimas fiziniams ir juridiniams asmenims) issued by the Information Technology and
Communications Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
has nationwide coverage, including citizens and foreigners over 18 years of age.
The Certificate contains information for all the following criminal convictions or offences,
except those deleted by rehabilitation laws or considered spent:
- Offences against the constitution (e.g., electoral offences, corruption, trespass, etc.)
- Misuse of public force
- Offences committed by public servants
- Offences against the public interest
- Offences against the private interest
- Offences against the public authority, influence, and fraud, perversion of justice, refusal to
assist justice - Disobedience to judicial orders
- Obstruction of public service
- Offences against state guarantees
- Usurpation
- Guarantee of the national economy
- Felonies and misdemeanors against the general interest (e.g., public safety, offences against
the public peace, public economy, public health, public decency; public worship) - Felonies and misdemeanors against the private interest (e.g., killing, harm, intentional force,
private liberty, sexual offences, personal tranquility, confidence, property, insolvency,
children, and family) - Simple offences
The legal prescription of a sentence varies, depending on the type of offence committed and
the sentence pronounced.
The certificate is valid for 1 month.
What is the expected turnaround time?
Period covered by the check:
The records are kept based on the legal prescription and rehabilitation periods applicable for
each type of conviction provided by the local regulations in Lithuania. All the records are
maintained by the Information Technology and Communications Department under the
Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, the authority receives the request and
conducts a detailed review and issues the certificate based on the above.
Privacy statement:
The details contained in this report should not be used as the sole reason for making a decision. Zinc Work Ltd is not liable for any inaccuracies or incompleteness in the information appearing in this report since it is provided to Zinc Work Ltd by third parties. This report has been produced for the purchaser of the report and Zinc Work Ltd will have no liability to loss.
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