I am a citizen of Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea

First of all, you must electronically via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) fill-out the request to issue or change the residence permit and include digital copies of the documents being added to this request. After filling-out the request and booking the visitation time via MIGRIS, within 4 months from the day of filling-out the request via MIGRIS you must personally address in regards to the issuance (changing) of temporary residence permit and submit the biometric data, as well as original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

	Documents (to issue)
	Documents (to renew)

1. Valid travel document;

The documents supporting the issue (renewal) of the temporary residence permit:

2. If you work or intend to work according to an employment contract:

• the employment contract; or
• the undertaking of the employer to employ you according to the employment contract.

3. If you are a member or the manager of a private legal person (entity) that is engaged in the Republic of Lithuania in an activity registered in the documents of incorporation, and the purpose of their arrival to the Republic of Lithuania is working in the company concerned:

•  if less than one year has passed from the incorporation of the entity, documents, confirming that the entity is engaged in the Republic of Lithuania in the activities specified in its incorporation documents:
  • the documents about the entity’s location (e.g. the premises lease agreement);
  • the contracts (no more than 10) confirming the economic commercial activities of the company;
  • operating permits, in case the entity’s operations are subject to respective permits or licences;
  • the documents supporting the entity’s economic operations and events (e.g. statement from the entity's bank account, invoices, cash proceeds and expense orders);
  • journals of the entity's economic operations and economic events (e.g. General Ledger, operation journal).
• your employment contract;
• the documents submitted to the SE Centre of Registers (we will retrieve from the SE Centre of Registers):
  • financial statements of the entity (balance sheet, statement on the changes in equity), if one financial year has passed from the company's incorporation date;
  • the documents certifying that you are a member or the manager of the entity.

4. If you work or intend to engage in another legitimate activity, including individual activity within the meaning of the Law on Income Tax of Individuals of the Republic of Lithuania:

• the relevant supporting documents (e.g., the documents confirming that you are or intend to engage in a performer, sporting or religious activity,  or volunteering as a participant in a volunteer program recognized by the European Union or its Member States, a journalist accreditation card, a document confirming that you conduct or intend to conduct joint government programs with foreign countries, business certificate, individual activity certificate, the description of your signed legal activity, which you intend to take-up);

Individual activity shall mean any independent activity in pursuit whereof an individual aims at deriving income or any other economic benefit over a continuous period:

• independent commercial or industrial activities of any nature, except sales and/or rent of items that are by their nature considered immovable, also transaction in financial instruments; 
• independent creative, professional activities and other similar independent activities;
• independent sports activities;
• independent performing activities.

5.  If you intend to work or engage in activities according to a regulated profession:

• the document certifying that you comply with the terms set forth in the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania to engage in regulated professional activity;

Regulated professions – lawyer; obstetrician; architect; teacher; bankruptcy administrator; general nurse; biomedical technician; dental hygienist;  dental technician; dietician; ergotherapist; guide; dental assistant; advanced nurse; physiotherapist; speech therapist; masseur; physician; school psychologist; teacher; dentist; patent attorney; private detective; profession teacher; restorer, restructuring administrator, social worker, social pedagogue, construction engineer, surdopedagogue, special needs picture, property and business valuer, pharmacist, pharmatechnician, veterinary assistant, veterinary doctor.

6. The document about sufficient subsistence funds;

The value of subsistence funds is one minimum wage per month. There should be enough funds for the whole duration of the requested temporary residence permit or for at least one year.

7. The undertaking, that you will declare your place of residence in the dwelling, the residential area of which for one adult person, who declared their place of residence therein, will be no less than 7 square meters;

8. Affirmation that you were never convicted (please indicate when filling-out the request via ‘MIGRIS’); 

The affirmation is needed when you apply for the first temporary residence permit, if you were not convicted in the foreign country(ies), wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when life in the foreign country lasted shorter than 6 months within 12 months period).

or

Certificate that you were convicted;

The affirmation is needed when you apply for the first temporary residence permit, if you were convicted in the foreign country(ies), wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries affirming that you were convicted therein. The translated in to Lithuanian language, as well as legalized and/or certified (Apostille), when this is needed, certificates must be issued no sooner than 6 months prior to the day of submitting the application regarding the residence permit. The certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out.

9. Document regarding health insurance.

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• The insurance must guarantee the payment of emergency medical care services, as they are defined in the Law of Health Care System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that could emerge due to the alien’s return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the accompanying of health care specialist(s)); and
• The insurance must be valid for the whole duration of the requested temporary residence permit or for at least one year.

You do not need health insurance, if compulsory health insurance contributions will be paid for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

• By filling-out the request via ‘MIGRIS’;
• Upon arriving at the booked visitation time at the Migration Department in order to submit the original documents and biometric data.

You must pay the public fees:

• For the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoptions of decisions and issuance of the temporary residence permit;
  • Based on the general procedure - 120.00 EUR;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - 240.00 EUR.

For obtaining or renewal of a temporary residence permit you are requested to arrive within your pre-booked timeslot at:

• a relevant territorial office of the Migration Department or
• International House Vilnius Konstitucijos pr. 3, Vilnius).

The decisions regarding temporary residence permits are accepted and temporary residence permits issued:

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 3 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 45 calendar days;
• Regarding the changing of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 2 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 1 month.

Important:

• Upon arriving to the Migration Department at the booked time, your presence in Lithuania must be lawful;
• Upon submitting the request to issue or change the temporary residence permit, you may be issued a multiplex national visa, the validity duration of which is no more than 5 months from the day of submitting the request regarding the issuance or changing of the temporary residence permit in Lithuania;
• If a national visa, which is valid for 1 year, or a couple of national visas, the total validity period of them is 1 year, was/were issued for you and you intend to submit a request regarding the issuance of temporary residence permit, then in order to be able to stay in Lithuania for the duration of the review of request you should submit this request upfront - 2-4 months until the end of the validity period of the national visa.

If you are submitting a request to issue Lithuanian Republic residence permit, you may choose to declare your place of residence:

• By arriving at the booked visitation time at the Migration Department to submit the original documents and biometric data to the request to issue the permit;
• At the township or municipality within 1 month from the withdrawal of residence permit.

When filling-out the request to issue the temporary residence permit via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (‘MIGRIS’) you must affirm that you undertake to declare your place of residence in a respective dwelling and when filling-out the request to issue permanent residence permit the aforementioned undertaking may be added in the column “Valid Travel Document” (lith. Galiojantis kelionės dokumentas).

Form of Undertaking In Regards to the Declaration of Place of Residence.

If you choose to declare your place at the Migration Department, when submitting the request to issue the residence permit:

• You need to indicate the data about the place of residence in Lithuania when filling-out the request, you do not need to additionally fill-out the place of residence declaration.
• When you fill-out the request to issue the residence permit via ‘MIGRIS’, you must add documents affirming your right to declare the place of residence in the dwelling. This can be:

- The consent of the owner, co-owner or their authorized representative of the dwelling to live in the dwelling belonging to the owner (co-owners). The consent of the owner (co-owner) must be confirmed by the notary or elder.

If non-confirmed consent of the owner (co-owner) is submitted, the owner (co-owner) must arrive at the Migration Department with you at the booked visitation time - the employee of the Migration Department accepting your request will confirm the consent of the owner (co-owner).

If the personal identification number has been given to the alien, for whom someone commits, in the Republic of Lithuania, consent may be concluded via www.igalojimai.lt. By choosing this method, in the description of the power of attorney service, the owner (co-owner) shall indicate that they agree to allow to settle-in and declare the place of residence in the dwelling belonging to the owner (co-owner) based on the right of ownership, by indicating the address of the dwelling. In this case, you will have to indicate the identification code given to the power of attorney to the employee of the Migration Department.

The Form of Consent to Settle-In at the Dwelling Belonging to the Owner (Co-Owner).

- Lease or loan-for-use agreement is concluded with the natural person or legal entity. The agreement need not be notarized or registered at SE “Center of Registers”;

- Letter issued by the legal entity confirming the right to settle-in the premises belonging to the legal entity or the document confirming about the accommodation at the hotel, or the granted hostel.

When filling-out the request to issue the temporary residence permit, one of the aforementioned documents may be added to the column “Document Regarding the Suitable Dwelling in the Republic of Lithuania” (lith. Dokumentas dėl tinkamos gyvenamosios patalpos Lietuvos Respublikoje), while filling-out the request to issue the permanent residence permit, one of the aforementioned documents may be added to the column “Valid Travel Document”.

You may also submit the aforementioned documents upon arriving at the Migration Department at the booked visitation time in order to submit to the request the biometric data and original documents.

If the dwelling belongs to you on the right of ownership or the lease, or loan-for-use agreement concluded with the natural person or legal entity is registered in the SE “Center of Registers”, you need not submit the documents confirming these circumstances to the Migration Department.

If you choose to declare your place of residence in the township after withdrawing the residence permit:

After withdrawing the residence permit at the Migration Department, within 1 month from the day of withdrawing the document, you will have to go to the township and declare your place of residence in accordance to the procedure determined by the Director of SE “Center of Registers”.

You may find more about place of residence declaration on the SE “Center of Registers” website: http://info.registrucentras.lt.

Administrative liability may be applied for non-adherence to the requirement to declare your place of residence in Lithuania.

Your temporary residence permit will be issued to you for three years or, if your employment or other legal activity in the Republic of Lithuania is shorter than three years, for the duration of your employment or other legal activity in the Republic of Lithuania and for a further three months’ period.

You may bring your family members with you and they have to immediately apply for a temporary residence permit together with you. Family members mean the spouse or the person with whom a registered partnership has been contracted, minor children/adopted children that are dependent upon you, also your dependent parents if they who have been dependent for at least one year and are unable to use the support of other family members residing in a foreign state.

An application for a renewal of a temporary residence permit must be submitted within at least two months and an application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in an urgent procedure shall be submitted within at least one month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than four months.