Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has appointed a task group to draft a bill on dual citizenship so that the issue could be put to a vote in a planned referendum this year.
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American ice dancer Isabella Tobias, who was granted Lithuanian citizenship in 2013 to be able to represent the country at the Sochi Olympics, is reported to have adopted Israeli nationality ahead of the European championships. If that proves to be true, she will be stripped of her Lithuanian passpo...
The new citizenship law which allows for certain Lithuanians with special merit to hold dual citizenship with another country, cannot prevent subjectivity when it comes to decisions on allowing people to maintain or recover national citizenship, according to parliamentarians Stasys Šedbaras and Juli...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed amendments to the Law on Citizenship, allowing people with "great merit" to the Lithuanian state to keep dual citizenship.
Lithuanian citizens with special merits to the state will be able to retain their Lithuanian passport even after becoming naturalized citizens of another country, parliament decided on Tuesday.
A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member...
During a meeting with the Chair of Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission Zenonas Vaigauskas, Lithuanian-American Dr. Darius Udrys and Lithuanian-Australian MEP Antanas Guoga were informed that they are ineligible to stand as candidates for election to Lithuania’s Seimas due to the fact that both ...
The Lithuanian parliament has endorsed a bill allowing Lithuanians who are born abroad to retain dual citizenship.
Lithuania's parliament, the Seimas, voted on Thursday in favour of legal amendments that will expand possibilities for Lithuanian nationals to have dual citizenship.
Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavičius has retained his Lithuanian citizenship, although the law says that citizenship is lost when a person works for a foreign country's civil service without permission.
The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed an initiative by a group of lawmakers to call a referendum on dual citizenship alongside general elections next year. But the Cabinet also suggests a different formulation for the question to be put for the vote.
Lithuania has recently commemorated 25 years of freedom. A member of multiple international organisations and by all accounts a success, the country still suffers from emigration.
Russia's Vladimir Putin may have just done favour for Lithuania with his sardonic remark on “fewer Lithuanians” during his recent visit to Kaliningrad – even parties that had bristled against the idea of a referendum on allowing dual citizenship, might be embracing it amid the sabre-rattling from th...
Dalia Henke, the new leader of the Lithuanian World Community (PLB), says that expatriate Lithuanians agree to the planned referendum on dual citizenship only on three conditions.
It is mind-boggling that the question of dual citizenship remains unresolved. Since the 1990s, Lithuania’s population has been in decline. Emigration coupled with low birth rate continues to drive down the number of people living in Lithuania.
Dalia Henke from Germany, who has been elected the new board chairman of the Lithuanian World Community, believes Lithuania should not rush to hold a referendum on dual citizenship, pointing to a lack of agreement on the issue among political parties.
Lithuania knows the exact day when it became part of Europe. That was on 6 July 1253, when Duke Mindaugas, shortly after having accepted baptism, was crowned by the Pope of Rome the king of still largely pagan lands. The 6 of July is now celebrated as Lithuania's Statehood Day and although its a hol...
A sociological poll has revealed that many people approve of legalising dual citizenship and would vote in favour of the proposal in a referendum. According to political scientist Algis Krupavičius, a referendum on dual citizenship might be successful if the matter was presented as the interest of t...
Last week, the Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community held sittings and adopted a resolution urging the Seimas, parliament, not to approve a referendum on dual citizenship.
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has said she supports the initiative to hold a referendum on dual citizenship.
