citizenship

As a referendum on dual citizenship failed on 12 May, Freedom Party’s leader Aušrinė Armonaitė has called on authorities to suspend revoking passports of Lithuanians who have become citizens of other countries. Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has in turn assured the media that solutions were...

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen believes new initiatives on dual citizenship should be put aside for some time. She has said that in response to recent suggestions by some politicians to lower the threshold for the referendum vote.

Alongside with the presidential vote, Lithuanians on Sunday cast ballots in a binding referendum on dual citizenship. The referendum was deemed valid, with more than 50 percent of the eligible voters having had their say, but it failed to attract required votes.

On 29 March 2004, Lithuania became a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The road to this goal was rough but the country took on the implementation of the necessary reforms and acted with determination to assure its presence in the Alliance. Why is the NATO membership viewe...

Citizenship, civic duty, patriotism are words that have always been very important in Lithuania. However, the question is are these values truly cherished by young people? Are they interested in civic matters whatsoever? Are our efforts sufficient in raising the awareness of young individuals about ...

In recent years, the ongoing war in Ukraine has sparked numerous discussions about our defence and security. The security of Lithuania has always been a concern, and young people, driven by civic ambition, are stepping up to take action. Two of them have agreed to share their experiences of voluntar...

Early voting opened at polling stations at 7 a.m. Tuesday to elect Lithuania’s next president and decide on the retention of citizenship in a mandatory referendum.

8 March is International Women’s Day, and members of the fair sex are carrying armfuls of spring flowers and enjoying heart-warming attention. The world has been celebrating International Women’s Day for over a hundred years, but its meaning goes way deeper. Do women really enjoy the rights to parti...

President Gitanas Nausėda on Thursday signed decrees stripping Russian businessman Yuri Kudimov and Russian ballerina Ilze Liepa of Lithuanian citizenship that had been granted by exception.

President Gitanas Nausėda says he is positive about the possibility of granting Lithuanian citizenship to American ice dancer Allison Reed.

The Citizenship Commission has issued a recommendation to the president that Russian ballerina Ilzė Liepa should lose Lithuanian citizenship, which was granted by exception, as she poses a threat to national security.

Six out of ten Lithuanians agree that American figure skater Allison Reed should be granted Lithuanian citizenship, a poll shows.

The Citizenship Commission convened on Friday and proposed that President Gitanas Nausėda would strip Russian businessman and former KGB employee Yury Kudimov of Lithuanian citizenship that was granted by exception.

Investigative journalism centre Siena reports that Arkadiy Abramovich, a son of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, had his Lithuanian passport renewed last autumn, already after his father was included on the EU sanctions list. This was confirmed to reporters by the director of the Migration Depa...

Jews with roots in Lithuania, known as Litvaks, have been active in applying for Lithuanian citizenship after the country a year ago amended the law to make it easier for them to do so, officials said on Thursday.

Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport.

Lithuanian MPs have submitted a bill on reinstating citizenship for Jews who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

As the Migration Department and courts have been rejecting citizenship applications from Jews of Lithuanian origin, lawmakers are determined to amend the Law on Citizenship.

Lithuania's citizenship laws recognize the right of people who lived in Lithuania in the period 1918-1940 and their offspring to claim Lithuanian citizenship but recently a growing number of applications by Litvaks, Lithuanian Jews, have been rejected by the Lithuanian Ministry of Interior, leading ...