Schengen by Accession to Switzerland’s Association, With a Three-Month Rule of Its Own
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Bulgaria on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
195 exceptions recorded across 74 countries · none match Bulgaria to Liechtenstein · Visiting as a tourist
Liechtenstein is in neither the European Union nor Schengen as a member: it is in Schengen because it acceded, by a protocol of 28 February 2008, to the association agreement Switzerland had already made with the Union. The acquis was put into effect for Liechtenstein on 19 December 2011. A visitor therefore meets the Union’s visa list and the Schengen Borders Code at the border, and the ordinance made under the Aliens Act says so directly: entry conditions for a short stay are those of article 6 of the Borders Code, and the ordinance itself applies only so far as the Schengen acquis has no diverging provision. Alongside the Code’s ninety days in any 180, the Aliens Act keeps a national measure: within six months of first entry a permit-free stay may not exceed three months, and where a visa states a shorter period that period prevails. There is no visa-free residence either: any gainful activity needs a permit from the first day, whatever the nationality and however short the work.
At a glance
- How Liechtenstein is in Schengen
- By acceding to the EU-EC-Switzerland association agreement, not by a treaty of its own
Protocol of 28 February 2008, article 1, published as LGBl. 2011 Nr. 131.
- In force for Liechtenstein
- Protocol in force 7 April 2011; Schengen acquis put into effect 19 December 2011
The in-force date is printed on the Landesgesetzblatt text of the Protocol. The date the acquis took effect is the date PFZG article 1(2)(c) was brought into force by LGBl. 2011 Nr. 563, which the Act’s own footnote records.
- Short-stay entry conditions
- Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code
VEV article 3(1). The ordinance adds that means of subsistence count as sufficient in particular where no social assistance will be drawn.
- Maximum permit-free stay
- Three months within six months of first entry, or less if the visa says so
AuG article 9(2). This is a Liechtenstein measure stated beside the Schengen 90 days in any 180 that VEV article 2(1)(a) defines.
- Work during a visa-free stay
- Not permitted without a permit, whatever the length of the work
AuG article 10(1) for third-country nationals and PFZG article 8(1)(a) for EEA and Swiss nationals. Both make a permit necessary for any gainful activity irrespective of how long the stay lasts.
- Where a long-stay visa is applied for
- At the Swiss representation abroad competent for the applicant’s place of residence
VEV article 19(1). Liechtenstein has almost no representations of its own and the visa procedure runs through the framework treaty with Switzerland, LGBl. 2009 Nr. 217.
- Registration after arrival
- Eight days, in person, at the Einwohnerkontrolle of the place of residence
AuG article 11(1) for permit-holding third-country nationals; PFZG article 7(1) says the same eight days for EEA and Swiss nationals. Cross-border workers are excluded by AuG article 11(5).
Requirements
- A valid passport, and a visa or an ETIAS travel authorisation where one is required
- Enough money for the stay - treated as sufficient in particular where it is assured that no social assistance will be drawn during the stay in the Schengen area
- No danger to public security and order or to the country’s international relations, no exclusion measure in force and no international arrest alert
- An assurance of departure where the stay is only temporary
- For anyone intending to take up residence and not subject to a visa requirement: a written assurance of a short-stay or residence permit before travelling
In detail
Two counting rules beside each other
The Schengen rule is 90 days in any 180 across the whole area, and the ordinance states it in those words. The Liechtenstein rule in article 9(2) of the Aliens Act is three months within six months of first entry, and a visa that grants less wins. The two are not the same arithmetic: a rolling 180-day window and a fixed six months from a first entry can give different answers to the same itinerary. Switzerland has a measure of the same shape in article 10(1) of its Foreign Nationals Act, which is not a coincidence - the two countries run one border and one visa procedure.
There is no border with Switzerland to cross
The recitals of the accession protocol describe the close relationship between Liechtenstein and Switzerland as already expressed in an area without controls at the internal border between them, and they give Liechtenstein’s geographical situation as a reason for associating it on the same footing as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Practically, that is why the Schengen question for Liechtenstein was always going to be answered the same way Switzerland answered it.
Country-level policy
Everything quoted in Liechtenstein’s records comes from Lilex, the consolidated law database of the government’s legal service at gesetze.li. Lilex says what it is: the consolidated provisions serve information only and have no legal effect. The authoritative text is elsewhere, and the Publication Act says exactly where - only the version of a provision published in the Landesgesetzblatt and electronically signed is massgebend, and for treaties and decisions of international organisations it is the texts designated authentic in them. That is a third answer to a question this corpus has now asked of three neighbours: Switzerland’s consolidations are themselves authoritative, Iceland’s gazette prevails over its code, and Liechtenstein separates the two the way Iceland does while publishing both at the same address.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Bulgaria
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Im Einklang mit Art. 16 des Abkommens zwischen der Europäischen Union, der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft über die Assoziierung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft bei der Umsetzung, Anwendung und Entwicklung des Schengen-Besitzstands (nachstehend "Assoziierungsabkommen" genannt) tritt das Fürstentum Liechtenstein (nachstehend "Liechtenstein" genannt) dem Assoziierungsabkommen zu den in diesem Protokoll festgelegten Bedingungen bei. Dieser Beitritt begründet gegenseitige Rechte und Pflichten der Vertragsparteien gemäss den in diesem Protokoll festgelegten Bestimmungen und Verfahren.»Our translation - not official
In accordance with Article 16 of the Agreement between the European Union, the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Swiss Confederation’s association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (hereinafter "the Association Agreement"), the Principality of Liechtenstein (hereinafter "Liechtenstein") accedes to the Association Agreement on the conditions laid down in this Protocol. This accession creates mutual rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties in accordance with the provisions and procedures laid down in this Protocol.
Liechtenstein is in Schengen by acceding to Switzerland’s association agreement rather than by an agreement of its own. The Protocol entered into force for Liechtenstein on 7 April 2011 and the acquis was put into effect on 19 December 2011.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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«Die Bestimmungen über das Visumverfahren und die Ein- und Ausreise gelten nur, sofern der für Liechtenstein anwendbare Schengen-Besitzstand keine abweichenden Bestimmungen enthält.»Our translation - not official
The provisions on the visa procedure and on entry and exit apply only in so far as the Schengen acquis applicable to Liechtenstein contains no diverging provisions.
The Act stands back from the acquis in the same way the Swiss Foreign Nationals Act does in its article 2(4).
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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«Die Einreisevoraussetzungen für kurzfristige Aufenthalte richten sich nach Art. 6 des Schengener Grenzkodex 3. 2) Die Mittel zur Bestreitung des Lebensunterhalts im Sinne von Art. 6 Abs. 1 Bst. c des Schengener Grenzkodex gelten insbesondere als ausreichend, wenn sichergestellt ist, dass während des Aufenthalts im Schengen-Raum keine Sozialhilfeleistungen bezogen werden.»Our translation - not official
The entry conditions for short stays are governed by article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code. 2) The means of subsistence within the meaning of article 6(1)(c) of the Schengen Borders Code are deemed sufficient in particular where it is assured that no social assistance benefits will be drawn during the stay in the Schengen area.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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«"kurzfristiger Aufenthalt": Aufenthalt von höchstens 90 Tagen innerhalb eines Zeitraums von 180 Tagen im Schengen-Raum;»Our translation - not official
"short stay": a stay of no more than 90 days in any period of 180 days in the Schengen area; "longer stay": a stay of more than 90 days in any period of 180 days in the Schengen area;
The Schengen counting rule, stated in the ordinance in its own words.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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«Ausländer, die nach Liechtenstein einreisen wollen: a) müssen über einen gültigen Reisepass verfügen; 6 abis) müssen, sofern erforderlich, über ein Visum oder eine Reisegenehmigung nach der Verordnung (EU) 2018/1240 7 (ETIAS-Reisegenehmigung) verfügen; 8 b) müssen über genügend finanzielle Mittel für den Aufenthalt verfügen; c) dürfen keine Gefahr für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung sowie die internationalen Beziehungen des Landes darstellen; 9 d) dürfen nicht von einer Fernhaltemassnahme betroffen sein; und 10 e) dürfen nicht international zur Verhaftung ausgeschrieben sein. 11 2) Sie müssen für die gesicherte Wiederausreise Gewähr bieten, wenn nur ein vorübergehender Aufenthalt vorgesehen ist. 3) Ausländer, die in Liechtenstein ihren Wohnsitz nehmen wollen und nicht visumpflichtig sind, benötigen für die Einreise die Zusicherung für die Kurzaufenthalts- oder Aufenthaltsbewilligung. 4) Die Bestimmungen des für Liechtenstein anwendbaren Schengen-Besitzstands bleiben vorbehalten.»Our translation - not official
Foreign nationals who wish to enter Liechtenstein: a) must hold a valid passport; abis) must, where required, hold a visa or a travel authorisation under Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 (ETIAS travel authorisation); b) must have sufficient financial means for the stay; c) must not represent a danger to public security and order or to the country’s international relations; d) must not be subject to an exclusion measure; and e) must not be internationally wanted for arrest. 2) They must give assurance of departure again where only a temporary stay is intended. 3) Foreign nationals who wish to take up residence in Liechtenstein and are not subject to a visa requirement need, for entry, the assurance of the short-stay or residence permit. 4) The provisions of the Schengen acquis applicable to Liechtenstein are reserved.
Note paragraph 3: a person who intends to settle and needs no visa still cannot simply arrive. They need the written assurance of a permit first.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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«Wird ein Aufenthalt ohne Erwerbstätigkeit von mehr als drei Monaten innerhalb von sechs Monaten beabsichtigt, so ist dafür eine Bewilligung erforderlich. 2) Innerhalb von sechs Monaten ab Datum der Ersteinreise darf der bewilligungsfreie Aufenthalt drei Monate nicht überschreiten. Enthält das Visum eine kürzere Aufenthaltsdauer, so gilt diese. 3) Mit Ablauf des bewilligungsfreien Aufenthalts nach Abs. 2 muss die Ausreise erfolgen.»Our translation - not official
Where a stay without gainful activity of more than three months within six months is intended, a permit is required for it. 2) Within six months from the date of first entry, the permit-free stay may not exceed three months. If the visa contains a shorter period of stay, that period applies. 3) On expiry of the permit-free stay under paragraph 2, departure must take place.
Liechtenstein’s own three-month rule, counted from first entry over six months rather than over a rolling 180 days.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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«Ausländer, die in Liechtenstein eine Erwerbstätigkeit ausüben wollen, benötigen unabhängig von der Aufenthaltsdauer eine Bewilligung. Vorbehalten bleibt Art. 12. 2) Als Erwerbstätigkeit gilt jede üblicherweise gegen Entgelt ausgeübte unselbständige oder selbständige Tätigkeit, selbst wenn sie unentgeltlich erfolgt.»Our translation - not official
Foreign nationals who wish to pursue a gainful activity in Liechtenstein require a permit irrespective of the length of the stay. Article 12 is reserved. 2) Gainful activity means any employed or self-employed activity normally pursued for remuneration, even where it is performed without remuneration.
Unpaid work counts. The definition catches an activity that is normally remunerated even where this particular person is not paid for it.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
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«Ausländer müssen ihr Visumgesuch für einen längerfristigen Aufenthalt grundsätzlich bei der für ihren Wohnort zuständigen schweizerischen Auslandvertretung einreichen.»Our translation - not official
Foreign nationals must as a rule lodge their visa application for a longer stay with the Swiss representation abroad competent for their place of residence.
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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Practical notes
Which nationalities need a visa is decided by the Union’s list in Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, not by a Liechtenstein instrument. We do not reproduce that list from memory; the regulation is read in this corpus under the European Union record.
This record rests on the accession protocol as published in the Landesgesetzblatt, on the Aliens Act and on the entry and visa ordinance. We did not read the framework treaty with Switzerland of 2009 (LGBl. 2009 Nr. 217) or the 2011 visa-procedure agreement, both of which the ordinance names as the instruments it implements.
- consolidatesProtocol on the accession of Liechtenstein to the Schengen association agreement, LGBl. 2011 Nr. 131
Lilex - Gesetzesdatenbank des Fürstentums Liechtenstein · consolidated to 2019-12-24
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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- consolidatesAusländergesetz (AuG), LGBl. 2008 Nr. 311
Lilex - Gesetzesdatenbank des Fürstentums Liechtenstein · consolidated to 2026-06-12
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- consolidatesVerordnung über die Einreise und die Visumerteilung (VEV), LGBl. 2020 Nr. 042
Lilex - Gesetzesdatenbank des Fürstentums Liechtenstein · consolidated to 2025-10-12
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The Rechtsdienst der Regierung's consolidated law database for Liechtenstein, covering national law and treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht) under LR numbers, and reached at gesetze.li. It is tagesaktuell by its own account - 'Hier finden Sie tagesaktuell das geltende Landes- und Staatsvertragsrecht in konsolidierter (bereinigter) Form' - and it carries the EEA Agreement and its annexes as Liechtenstein treaty law, which is how the sectoral adaptations limiting free movement can be read here at all. The quotable text is at /konso/html/<LGBlId>, where LGBlId is the year plus the three-digit LGBl number plus 000: /konso/<LGBlId> alone is a shell with an iframe. Search works only with the whole parameter set, /konso/suche?search_text=&search_loc=text&lrnr=<LR>&lgblid_von=&observe_date=DD.MM.YYYY; omitting any one of them returns the help page with no results.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It is informative only and must never be cited as the authentic text. Its own Rechtshinweis says 'Konsolidierte Rechtsvorschriften dienen ausschliesslich der Information und entfalten keine Rechtswirkung', and article 7(1) of the Kundmachungsgesetz says only the signed electronic version published in the Landesgesetzblatt is massgebend. For a treaty it is the texts designated authentic in the treaty that govern, under article 7(2). It also cannot be cited for Swiss law applied in Liechtenstein: it lists which Swiss instruments apply but publishes none of their text, which lives on fedlex.admin.ch. Fetch it with Firecrawl rather than the direct route: the direct extractor does not decode named HTML entities and stores 'ü' as the five characters of its entity.
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