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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 Citizenship Recovery by Descent Lithuanian citizenship restoration is for a former pre-15 June 1940 Lithuanian citizen or that citizen's child, grandchild, or great-grandchild. It… citizenship Lithuanian Citizenship via Ethnic Origin Lithuania's simplified citizenship procedure is for a person who has never been a Lithuanian citizen, has a parent or grandparent who is or was… citizenship Lithuania Heritage Permanent Residence A non-Lithuanian citizen who is legally a person of Lithuanian origin or has the right to restore Lithuanian citizenship may apply directly for a… residency