Migration Department

Certain employment benefits for foreigners unable to return to Ukraine are set to expire from 1 September, the Migration Department said Thursday.

The Migration Department has dismissed its Klaipėda-based employee who concealed the fact that she had gained the Russian citizenship.

Companies willing to employ foreign nationals will need to pay a state fee for mediation letters required for issuing or amending a temporary residence permit or a national visa, the Migration Department said Friday. The fee will also be levied for applications to change the employer.

Six people have lost their Lithuanian citizenship after they were revealed to have acquired Russian citizenship and concealed that, the Migration Department said Wednesday.

In the first half of 2024, the Migration Department issued 78,121 temporary residence permits. They were issued for the first time in more than 33,000 cases and extended for around 44,000 foreigners.

Dictatorships in Russia and Belarus, then a full-scale war that Russia launched against Ukraine pushed millions of people to migrate abroad. The total number of foreigners in Lithuania crossed the record mark of 200,000 last year, according to official data from the Migration Department. How locals ...

Valeriy Ivanov, former leader of pro-Soviet organisation Yedinstvo, has missed the deadline to appeal against the Migration Department’s decision to send him away from Lithuania and will now be expelled from the country.

The Ministry of the Interior has presented amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens. Action is taken to introduce safeguards, ensure national security and eliminate abuse of migration and employment procedures.

The Migration Department said Wednesday false reports are circulating on social media claiming that foreign nationals living in Lithuania are receiving phone calls about imminent deportations.

The Migration Department plans to screen 18,000-20,000 citizens of Belarus who had moved to Lithuania prior to 2022, when restrictions were imposed due to Russia’s war against Ukraine and the role of Belarus in it.

Fewer Belarusians arrived in Lithuania in recent months and one of the reasons behind this is tighter restrictions and changing priorities of Lithuanian employers, says Director of the Migration Department Evelina Gudzinskaitė.

Ukrainian war refugees have been applying to the Migration Department in large numbers to renew their temporary residence permits since last week, when the process started. The interest is exceeding all the expectations, the authority says.

The Management Board of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has elected its Lithuanian member, Ms Evelina Gudzinskaitė, as its new chair. A graduate of Vilnius University, she has served as director of the Migration Department under the Ministry of Interior in Lithuania since 2015, the EUAA ...

The Migration Department has been instructed to start the procedure for revoking Lithuanian citizenship of a Russian ballet dancer following her statements supporting Moscow's actions in Ukraine.

Six out of ten Lithuanian residents agree that regulations should be tightened for Belarusian citizens arriving to Lithuania, shows a poll commissioned by the public broadcaster LRT that was carrier out by the pollster Baltijos tyrimai.

The National Alliance party has addressed authorities calling on the government to stop all measures aimed at facilitated workforce immigration to Lithuania.

Chairman of the Labour Party Andrius Mazuronis suggests that labour immigration policy should focus on countries that are similar to Lithuania, such as Belarus, otherwise he fears about national security risks.

Belarusian activist Olga Karach appealed against the Migration Department’s decision not to grant her asylum because of her links to Russian intelligence.

The Migration Department recently refused to grant political asylum to Belarusian activist Olga Karach, head of the international centre for civil initiatives Our House (Nash Dom) Belarus & Lithuania, after the State Security Department (VSD) concluded that she poses a threat to Lithuania’s national...

Representatives of the international centre for civil initiatives Our House (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania urge to distinguish Belarusians citizens fleeing from the Lukashenko regime from Russians and not to impose identical restrictions on them.