Albanian Embassy for Slovakia - Address / Phone Number

Albanian Embassy in Slovakia

Address: Podjavorinskej 4, 811 03 Bratislava
City: Bratislava (Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Tel.: (+421-2) 63 81 00 48
Fax: (+421-2) 54 41 35 25

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 10.00 - 13.00

The main services provided by the Embassy include:

• Visas
• Births, deaths and marriages
• Passports and emergency travel documents
• Travel advice
• Legalisation Service
• Notarial services, etc.

Albanian citizens living abroad will apply in person for a biometric passport in the premises specified by the manufacturing firms for this purpose. Currently these facilities are located only in Albania, at the Civil Registry Offices in the Municipal Units. The application of citizens under the age of 16 years for biometric passport can only be done in the presence of at least one parent, the legal custodian or designated representative with special power of attorney. The validity of the new passport is up to 10 years. The citizens up to 6 years obtain a biometric passport without taking fingerprints, but always being present in the application process. Biometric passport will be done within 15 days from the date of application. Upon receipt of the new passport, citizens are made aware of the invalidity of the previous passport.

For emergency reasons that the citizen is forced to leave quickly the country, without waiting for getting the passport in person, he must do the departure immediately after application, time during which it has not yet entered in the system, the new passport, authorizing in this way an authorized representative to receive it.

When Albanian citizens lose their passport, they must immediately make a report to the police authorities of the concerned country and notify the diplomatic or consular missions in that country. To get new passport, citizens who have lost it, should do the same as well as other citizens who seek to obtain a passport from the beginning, adding here depositing document denounced for the loss of passport first. To get new passport, citizens who have lost it, should do the same as well as other citizens who seek to obtain a passport from scratch, adding here and depositing the document denouncing the loss of the first passport.

All the foreigners who have a valid multi - entry Schengen visa, type "C" or "D", or a valid residence permit in one of the Schengen member states, can enter, stay and transit Albania without visa, within the validity term of the visa or the residence permit.