Migration Department

The Lithuanian Migration Department expects to process all asylum applications from migrants who have entered the country from Belarus so far within three months, the authority's director said on Tuesday.

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court will on Monday start hearing an appeal filed by Russian performer Philipp Kirkorov against the migration authority's January 19 decision to ban him from entering Lithuania for five years.

A total of 507 Belarusian citizens have been allowed to come to Lithuania on humanitarian, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry plans to facilitate visa issuance for Belarusian citizens.

Lithuanian Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene signed on Monday a decree to blacklist President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials for their roles in vote-rigging and violence against protesters.

Some 11 Belarusian citizens have asked for asylum in Lithuania recently.

The Interior Ministry has proposed to expand the list of cases when minors who have acquired Lithuanian citizenship by birth can also be citizens of another state.

Eight Lithuanian border guards have to go into self-isolation after an Afghan migrant detained at the border with Belarus has tested positive for COVID-19, the State Border Guard Service said on Thursday.

Workers from Ukraine and Belarus can come to Lithuania more easily after the end of quarantine in the country.

There are risks of corruption in the process of restoring Lithuanian citizenship, the Special Investigation Service (STT) said on Friday.

Vilnius Regional Court on Thursday released Roman Ruzhechko, a suspect in a Russian oil pipeline contamination probe, from detention.

In the two years since he came to Lithuania, Russian political activist Yuri Gorsky has been twice refused political asylum in the country.

The Lithuanian parliament passed on Tuesday a legal amendment that will allow foreigners to obtain the status of an e-resident starting in January 2021.

Lithuania's Migration Department is introducing changes as of July 1 and is facilitating invitation procedures for foreigners and is merging residence permit issuance procedures.

David Irving, a British historian convicted of denying the Holocaust, has been banned from entering Lithuania.

A Russian citizen waiting for deportation to Russia is suspected of wounding four people with a knife at a grocery store in Vilnius, the capital's police and prosecutors said.

Lithuanian institutions have provided information to Belarus' KGB as part of a criminal case against a Belarusian citizen who asked for asylum in Lithuania but was refused, the delfi.lt news website reports.

The Migration Department has released preliminary migration metrics for H2 2018. These have revealed that the largest foreign community in Lithuania is no longer Russians, but citizens of Ukraine, lrt.lt writes.

This Tuesday Vilnius’ business development and tourism agency Go Vilnius at the Workland Business Centre announced a series of dedicated workshops slated to begin taking place later this month. The Welcome to Vilnius workshops are designed to facilitate the transition of foreigners coming to the cit...

Lithuania's Constitutional Court of Thursday adjourned the hearing of a case on the rights of gay people married abroad.