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.
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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.
The presence of several thousand Wagner private military company’s mercenaries in Belarus intimidates neighbouring countries, which consider stricter policies for incoming Belarusian citizens, says Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says. Yet she stresses that Lithuania must continue su...
More than a thousand Belarusian and Russian citizens have been recognised as posing a threat to Lithuania’s national security and have been banned from entering the country since the end-autumn last year, the Migration Department said.
As the number of Belarusian citizens residing in Lithuania has increased, President Gitanas Nausėda hopes that parliament will amend legislation and impose identical restrictive measures on Belarusian and Russian nationals due to national security risks.
Lithuania has revoked 2,905 residence permits of Russian and Belarusian citizens since the start of the war in Ukraine until 14 July this year, the Migration Department told 15min news website on Wednesday.
The total number of Ukrainian war refugees registered in Lithuania has risen to 39,600, including 16,800 minors, the latest official statistics showed on Monday.
The Lithuanian Migration Department expects to process all asylum applications from migrants who have entered the country from Belarus so far within three months, the authority's director said on Tuesday.
