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Asylum seekers are not allowed to take up jobs or start businesses in Lithuania until they have been granted temporary or permanent residence, but international and some local experts say that changing the rules would benefit the economy and refugee integration, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday.
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"The key to fully integrating someone into society is granting them rights as similar as possible or even id

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