Turn on the border with Lithuania: tips for quickly overcoming the checkpoint

Many compatriots prefer to travel to Lithuania on their own cars. However, the choice of this vehicle is fraught with the fact that motorists are likely to have to spend a lot of time in line at the checkpoint of the Russian-Lithuanian border. Let's see how to minimize the duration of this unpleasant moment.

The choice of the checkpoint Russia-Lithuania

The queue on the border with Lithuania, especially on weekends and holidays, is a very common phenomenon. It can not be avoided at any checkpoint. The choice of the latter for the Russian consists of four positions:

• Chernyshevsky - Kybartai.
• Marine - Nid.
• Soviet - Panemune.
• Frontier - Ramonishkyi.

The most popular among Russian avtotruteshestvennikov is the "Kurshirskaya Kosa" (Marine - Nida) - it is recognized as the fastest passing. Follow the queue on the border with Lithuania can be online - at the checkpoint installed web cameras. In the day 800 people can pass the point, working from 9:00 to 21:00 local time, with an hour-long lunch break (13: 00-14: 00). The queue for entry and exit is general.

Choice of checkpoint Belarus-Lithuania

As an alternative, Russians choose to cross the border with Lithuania by car through the Republic of Belarus. In this case, there is also a choice of four items:

• Privalki - a small, but a quick passage.
• Stone Log is a large-scale item popular with Russian travelers, checking up to 2 thousand cars a day.
• Kotlovka is a favorite checkpoint for Russians (especially those who return from the EU), letting in through them to 1 thousand cars in 24 hours.
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However, we must remember that in the New Year holidays and these points are overloaded.

Since 2012, at the checkpoint "Kamenny Log" was introduced electronic registration, significantly increasing the capacity. To get on the electronic queue on the border with Lithuania, each driver must fill in a special receipt indicating the registration number and the brand of the car. On the listed points, you can also monitor the cork online.

Duty free luggage

In accordance with the rules for crossing the border with Lithuania, the following names of the goods carried (with calculation for one person) are not subject to duty:

• Actually the car itself;
• Up to 10 liters of gasoline in the tank;
• Personal second-hand things that do not exceed 510 litas (for the following by sea or air transport of citizens over 15 the threshold is increased to 1480 litas);
• Dowry, gifts up to 1000 euros;
• Video, audio, information carriers, professional equipment;
• 40 pcs. Cigarettes;
• 16 liters of beer, 4 liters of wine, 1 liter of spirits;
• Not more than 500 g of seeds, up to 100 kg of grain, up to 20 kg of fruits and vegetables, up to 50 pcs. Cut flowers.

In excess of these amounts, luggage is subject to a standard duty of 2.5% of the cost, if the latter is not more than 700 euros. In other cases, as well as for tobacco and alcohol, individual calculations are used.

Medicines should be placed in the original packaging, attach to them a doctor's prescription. The volume of imported medicines should not exceed the recommended level in it. It is not allowed to import meat and dairy products - the exception is baby food, produced for the end user, carried in undisturbed packaging.

Features of border crossing

Read the key points of moving across the Lithuanian border:

First you need to choose the right queue on the border with Lithuania: the "green" or "red" corridor. On the first move cars, whose luggage does not belong to a written declaration and whose importation does not require a permit. In the second, travelers are traveling, driven:

• pets;
• houseplants;
• Weapons;
• Amounts of currency and luggage exceeding the rates specified in the previous paragraph;
• Other names subject to regulation.

In both cases it will be necessary to fill out the declaration proposed by the customs officer.

At some points, the queue is divided for owners of trucks and cars, Russian travelers and Latvian "gasoline tankers" (drivers carrying relatively cheap gasoline from the Russian Federation in tanks).

If your position in the queue on the border with Lithuania has approached the barrier, you need to show the customs officer documents - his and passengers. After it is lifted, you must walk to the checkpoint on foot, following the sign "For passenger cars". The first control is the driver, then the passengers. The customs officer can ask standard questions about the imported things, ask to open the trunk.

Then you will be in neutral territory. Here you can buy anything you need in Duty Free stores. Next, you will see another post, where you can ask how to produce the documents, and just wonder if they are all right with them.

At this point, you will again get into a traffic jam on the border with Lithuania. If there are a lot of Russian citizens in the queue, a strip for travelers from the EU is opened for them - a sign will be a signal to that. Without its appearance, it is forbidden to use it. Also, you can drive only on the green light - otherwise the car is turned back.

Before you last point - here again it is necessary to show all the documents. Also, in advance, prepare clear answers to standard questions: the purpose, the direction of the trip, the time, the stopping place.

Required documents

The driver and each passenger should be with him:

• international passport;
• Schengen / Lithuanian visa ;
• A medical insurance policy in force in Lithuania;
• A birth certificate and a notarized travel authorization from the parents are added for the child if he travels with third parties.

For the car it is necessary:

• The technical passport.
• A note on the passage of the TO in the ticket.
• Sticker on passing the TO on the windshield.
• Green card.
• If necessary - a power of attorney to manage the car.

The queue on the border with Lithuania, especially on holidays, is an unpleasant but inevitable point of your route. But if you carefully consider compliance with all the mandatory rules and regulations, it will leave in your memory much less negative memories.