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The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court has handed down yet another ruling on spelling of personal names in documents – it ruled that non-Lithuanian last names of Wardyn and Pauwels should be spelled in personal identification cards in both Lithuanian and non-Lithuanian characters.
The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court is to rule on the spelling of two non-Lithuanian surnames in identify documents.
Lithuania's parliament should discuss spelling of non-Lithuanian names in passports, when there is sufficient will to take the decision, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
A Lithuanian court this week instructed migration authorities to enter last names of two Lithuanian citizens with non-Lithuanian characters in their passports, however, migration agencies say they cannot do this until the name-spelling issue has been solved by the parliament.
Lithuania's Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday instructed the migration authorities to issue a Lithuanian passport to Alexia Gorecki- Mickiewicz , great granddaughter of poet Adomas Mickevičius, with the original spelling of her first and last names on the main page of the passport.
The Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday instructed migration authorities to include both the Lithuanian version and the original version of a Lithuanian citizen's last name in a passport.
Lithuania will do everything it can to "reset" its relations with neighboring Poland, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Monday dismissed the problems of the Polish national minority as something minor, urging the two countries to skip them and "do the most important work, major work."
Lithuania's ruling Peasant and Green Union is considering a new idea on spelling non-Lithuanian names in passports. The party suggests entering both versions – in Lithuanian characters and in Latin characters – on the main page of the passport, with only the Lithuanian version entered in registers.
Saulius Skvernelis, candidate for Lithuania's prime minister longing for better relations with the neighboring Poland, says he has another idea about original spelling of personal names in documents.
A Vilnius court has put the Lithuanian capital's migration authorities under the obligation of issuing a new passport to Alexia Gorecki-Mickiewicz, great granddaughter of poet Adomas Mickevičius (Adam Mickiewicz), with the original spelling of her first and last names.
Lithuanian Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she doubts that the outgoing parliament will adopt a law on the spelling of first and last names in official documents.
The Lithuanian parliament should adopt a new law, allowing Lithuanian nationals to spell their names using non-Lithuanian characters in ID documents such as passports, in its spring plenary, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said.
A group in Lithuania collected 69,000 signatures under a petition which obligates parliament to consider a proposed bill on name spelling in personal identification documents. The initiative, calling itself "Talka - for Lithuania's State Language", seeks to pass a law saying that only Lithuanian cha...
The Migration Board of Vilnius County Central Police Commissariat has refused to issue a passport with a letter w in the last name of a Lithuanian woman who married a Belgian and received a marriage certificate with the new last name.
A group of citizens plan to propose to the country's parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page.
Vilnius City District Court on Thursday ordered Vilnius Registry Office to change the marriage certificate of a Lithuanian woman married to a Belgian and spell her name with a non-Lithuanian character "w".
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he still supports the proposal to allow the original spelling of non-Lithuanian names using the Latin alphabet after the Seimas of Lithuania postponed the issue until its autumn session later this week.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has no doubt that the original name spelling issue, postponed by the Seimas of Lithuania earlier in the day, will eventually be resolved. He adds that the issue is, first of all, important for the country's domestic, and not foreign policy.
