Exceptions were made to foreign nationals, registered with the authority, who could not return to Ukraine and who were not entitled to temporary protection were exempted from the obligation to obtain a work permit.
They applied to foreign nationals who had benefited from a visa-free regime or who held a valid Schengen visa. In addition, exceptions were in place for the ones who held national visas issued on the basis of unforeseen circumstances and the ones who applied for residence permits on the basis of work, highly qualified employment or humanitarian grounds.
As of 1 September, the facilitated regime ends for all the foreign nationals except highly qualified workers.
The Migration Department highlighted that these changes will have no impact on Ukrainian war refugees benefiting from the Temporary Protection Mechanism introduced by the European Union in Lithuania.
As before, arriving war refugees can take up a job as soon as they apply for a temporary residence permit at the Migration Department on the basis of temporary protection.