State Border Guard Service

Traffic across Lithuania's border with Belarus continues as normal, the commander of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said on Friday morning.

A Spaniard, deemed undesirable, has been sent out of Lithuania on Thursday.

Eight Lithuanian border guards have to go into self-isolation after an Afghan migrant detained at the border with Belarus has tested positive for COVID-19, the State Border Guard Service said on Thursday.

Latvia’s and Estonia’s border guard services each day notify Lithuania’s institutions about more than 100 Lithuania’s nationals arriving from other countries, Lithuania's State Border Guard Service (SBGS) reported on Thursday.

As the Baltic states have lifted the restrictions for their citizens to travel to other Baltic states, there are no queues on the Lithuanian-Latvian border yet, but they are likely to form over the upcoming weekend, Rustamas Liubajevas, chief of Lithuania's State Border Guard Service, warns.

Lithuania has further tightened checks of foreign truck drivers and, starting from Thursday, will refuse entry for drivers running a fever or displaying other coronavirus symptoms.

A ban for passenger cars to enter Lithuania from Belarus and Russia have come into force on midnight, and people will be able to enter from Latvia and Poland via two border checkpoints.

Lithuania is opening an additional border checkpoint in a bid to ease long queues of vehicles at the border with Belarus, the commander of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) said on Tuesday morning.

The whole of Lithuania is placed under quarantine for two weeks as of Monday. BNS provides a review of key instructions and recommendations.

Poland has on Tuesday introduced sanitary control on its border with Lithuania over the coronavirus risk, the country's embassy in Lithuania said.

Yuliya Shatilova, a journalist from Zvezda, a TV channel controlled by the Russian army, has been barred from entering Lithuania.

The number of people barred to enter Lithuania rose last year, and the country's State Border Guard Service links it to growing immigration.

Lithuania's Ministry of the Interior is nominating Rustamas Liubajevas, head of the ministry's Public Security Policy Group, to lead the country's State Border Guard Service, with the government expected to decide on his appointment next Wednesday.

The Lithuanian government appointed on Wednesday Renatas Pozela, the head of the country's State Border Guard Service, as police commissioner general.

A Lithuanian court has allowed the country's State Border Guard Service to continue its tender, worth 2.5 million euros, for upgrading the CCTV systems on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.

The Kybartai, Ramoniskiai, Panemune and Nida border checkpoints on the Lithuanian-Russian border will temporarily closed due to power network maintenance in the Russian region of Kaliningrad.

Lithuanian border guards detained a Belarusian citizen in the country's southern Lazdijai District last Thursday as he was taking three Russian asylum seekers abroad.

Lithuania's new Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene says firefighters and border guards will be a priority when raising wages next year, adding that the move will be aimed at closing the pay gap among statutory services.

Lithuania's State Border Guard Service has acquired two drones to fight cigarette smuggling.

Next year, Palanga Airport will make travellers welcome in its renovated premises, announced Lithuanian Airports.