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Pathways to Lithuanian Residency and Citizenship

Lithuania

Lithuania, an EU and Schengen member, offers residency through skilled work and entrepreneurship and citizenship by descent for people whose ancestors held Lithuanian nationality. This guide brings the country's main residency and citizenship routes together and links to a full breakdown of each.

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Ancestry & heritage

A parent, grandparent, or birth in the country can make you a citizen already — or let you claim it, often without relocating.

Lithuanian Descent Restoration Lithuanian citizenship restoration by descent is for descendants of Lithuanian citizens who held citizenship before the Soviet occupation period. It… citizenship Lithuanian Ethnic Origin Lithuania's ethnic-origin route is for people who can show Lithuanian ethnic origin even when the standard citizenship-restoration route does not fit.… citizenship Lithuanian-Origin Residence This residence route is for people of Lithuanian origin who want to live in Lithuania. It generally requires proof of Lithuanian ancestry or ethnic… residency