Migration

The parliamentary security committee has called on the Government to increase funding earmarked for the intelligence and migration agencies in the draft budget for next year.

The Ministry of the Interior has said it is tightening rules for obtaining a temporary residence permit in Lithuania as of 1 December this year.

So far in 2024, 1,800 companies have been inspected and 40,000 workers have been checked since migration control measures were tightened due to national security, notes Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė. She says that residence permits of some foreign workers were annulled both due to a potent...

The Ministry of the Interior had tightened migration control measures and it is estimated that this year nearly 36,000 foreigners were not allowed to live and work in Lithuania.

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 ...

The European Union’s (EU) migration and asylum rules were tightened in early April, yet President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, who are participating in the 2024 presidential election, disagree whether Lithuania should accept 158 migrants annually or instead pay EUR 3 million ...

Lithuania has not yet decided whether it will take a quota of asylum seekers set for each year in the wake of the new EU-level decisions on migration and asylum policy, a deputy interior minister says. The alternative would be to pay a few million euros to a support fund instead.

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.

With the arrival of spring weather, Latvia is once again registering more migrants illegally attempting to cross the border from neighbouring Belarus.

Three migrants attempted to cross from Belarus to Lithuania illegally on Monday, 26 February, reports the State Border Guard Service (VSAT).

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.

В Службу занятости поступает большое количество запросов от граждан стран Южной Азии, которые интересуются возможностью жить и работать в нашей стране. Эксперт по кибербезопасности и ИТ Марюс Парещюс сказал, что это – информационная атака.

Russian citizens who applied but failed to pass the official Latvian language examination or did not take it for justified reasons may obtain a residence permit for a term of up to two years, according to the amendments to the Immigration Law adopted by the Saeima in the second and final reading on ...

On 5 July, more than 80 professionals of Latvian descent employed at more than 80 international organisations in 25 countries are gathering in Riga Castle for the Second Forum of Latvian Professionals Working for International Organisations organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hold a disc...

Lithuania will need at least 300,000 immigrants in the next 30 years to compensate for demographic losses due a negative natural population growth rate, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on Wednesday.

Иностранные студенты смогут остаться в Великобритании в течение двух лет после выпуска с рабочей визой. С инициативой продлить для выпускников период, в течение которого они могут остаться в стране для поиска работы, выступил Хоум-офис.

More people came to Lithuania to live in July than any other previous month, as positive migration tendencies in the country continue.

1.5 million people will live in Lithuania at the end of the XXI century, which is around 45 percent down from now, the United National forecast.

Lithuania registered a positive migration balance for the fourth successive month in May as more people came into the country than left, with economists pointing to rising wages and facilitated immigration processes as determining factors.

The European Parliament adopted the Commission's proposal to reform the rules on Schengen visas, making it easier for bona fide travelers to obtain a visa to come to Europe for short stays, whilst strengthening security standards and reducing irregular migration risks.