Immigration

The government has approved a proposal to simplify the procedures for granting temporary residence permits to foreign workers moving to Lithuania.

The Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior has proposed simplifying temporary residence permit procedures for foreigners in an effort to facilitate business development and promote investments in the country.

In the wake of any shocking event, national governments and officials of the European Union invariably call for more cooperation between member states to prevent anything similar happening in the future. The response to the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels has been no different.

Emigration from Lithuania last year grew over 20% against 2014, according to the country's statistics office. Meanwhile the number of arrivals dropped by a tenth.

European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the Union, but not at the price of discrimination against EU citizens, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė ahead of important talks in Brussels.

Lithuanian residents would prefer to receive immigrants of the same ethnic group or race with barely 13 percent wanting to accept immigrants that are of another race or ethnic group. A survey performed by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed these and other insights into the Lithuanian...

Many immigrants to Lithuania are happy with their lives here and are not planning to move back to their homelands. A number of immigrants shared their stories on LRT programme Ryto garsai (morning sounds).

A new information portal designed to ease immigration to Lithuania for highly-skilled specialists and investors from outside the EU is launching this week. The project, entitled Internet Gates, is managed by Invest Lithuania, the foreign direct investment development agency.

The survey of members of the American Chamber of Commerce has shown that 58.4 percent of the respondents from major United States companies operating in Lithuania are unhappy with the current migration system in the country and regard it as poor or very poor.

Saulius Skvernelis, Minister of Interior of Lithuania, instructed his staff to draft a new procedure which will significantly ease and speed up the process for non-EU companies planning to invest in Lithuania.

The first group of refugees from Africa and the Middle East should be resettled to Lithuania in January 2016, the government's officials say.

Lithuania will accept 325 refugees over the next two years, the country's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday.

What should Lithuania make of the European Union’s intention to distribute refugees, who are coming in droves to Italy and Greece, among all member states? Economists at the Baltic Investors Forum discussed whether these people could help solve the country's labour force shortage.

As the European Union launches talks on refugee distribution, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says accepting several hundred refugees is not only a challenge but also an opportunity to solve the problem of short workforce supply.

The European Council's decision to relocate 40,000 refuges from Greece and Italy to other EU member states over the next two years is a symbolic step, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that the migration problem needs a more serious solution.

The Lithuanian government gave a green light on Monday to receiving up to 250 refugees distributed by the European Commission (EC) in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday agreed that Lithuania would be ready to accept up to 250 refugees over the course of two years as part of the EU effort to resolve the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

The European Commission's Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis says that the principle of voluntary solidarity earlier applied in the efforts to solve the refugee crisis in Southern Europe did not work, therefore, a mechanism of balanced distribution of asylum-seekers is required.

Lithuania's Ministry of the Interior on Monday presented the government with a draft proposal which suggests accepting up to 200 refugees by 2018 in an effort to contribute to the resolution of the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has criticised the idea that the country should pick refugees to accept based on their country of origin.