Requirements for the company:

• a business plan according to which the activities are carried out for at least 6 months;
• part-time work is required for the citizens of Lithuania and other EU or EFTA Member States or foreigners with permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, whose salaries in total are at least 2 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises);
• equity value not less than 28,000 EUR;
• activities are carried out for at least 6 months according to the business plan in the Republic of Lithuania.

Requirements for me:

• you must be a manager of the company or a shareholder of UAB or AB holding at least 1/3 of the authorised capital of the company);

In the case of AB or UAB, you must own shares of the company by the right of ownership, the nominal value whereof is at least 14 thousand EUR, and in case of IĮ, MB or TŪB, the contribution (monetary or other assets) to a company or enterprise – at least 14 thousands EUR.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. Business plan;
3. Documents confirming the activity of the enterprise according to the business plan for at least 6 months in the Republic of Lithuania:

• company location documents (for example, a rental agreement of premises);
• no more than 10 agreements confirming the commercial activity of the company;
• if the company management requires the necessary permissions or licenses to carry out its activities, such permits or licenses must be provided;
• documents demonstrating the entity 's business operations and economic events (e.g. bank account statement, invoices, cash order income and expense orders of this company);
• accounting records of business operations and economic events (e.g. Ledger, transaction log).

4. Employment contracts for company employees;

These are full-time employees of the company – citizens of Lithuania and other EU or EFTA Member States or foreigners with permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, whose salaries in total are at least 2 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises).

5. Documents submitted to SE Centre of Registers  (we will get them from the SE Centre of Registers ourselves);

• documents and articles of association (statutes) of the establishment or acquisition of the company;
• documents stating that the value of the company's equity (in the case of non-open limited liability company or non-private limited liability company – assets) amounts to at least 28 thousand EUR (company's financial statements (balance sheet, statement of changes in equity)), whereof at least 14 thousand EUR of funds are invested or other assets (in the case of AB or UAB – shares of the company owned by you, the nominal value whereof is not less than 14 thousand EUR and in case of IĮ, MB or TŪB – the contribution (monetary or other assets) to a company or an enterprise not less than 14 thousand EUR) if one financial year has passed since the date of establishment of the company;
• documents stating that you are the manager of the company or a shareholder of AB or UAB, owning the shares of the company with a nominal value of not less than 1/3 of the authorised capital of this company (list of shareholders of AB or UAB).

6. If one financial year has not passed since the company was established: the balance sheet or the statement of changes in equity of the company, in which the value of the equity (in the case of non-AB or UAB – assets) amounts to at least 28 thousand EUR;
7. 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..

8. 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.
9. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

10. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the central institution of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you or renewed for 2 year.

You can bring your family members and they can apply for a temporary residence permit with you immediately. Family members are: your spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent underage children, your dependent parents if you have been supporting them for at least 1 year and they are unable to use the assistance of other family members living abroad.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

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.

• a business plan according to which the activities are carried out for at least 6 months;
• part-time work is required for the citizens of Lithuania and other EU or EFTA Member States or foreigners with permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, whose salaries in total are at least 4 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises);
• equity value not less than 28,000 EUR;
• activities are carried out for at least 6 months according to the business plan in the Republic of Lithuania.

Requirements for me:

• you must be a company manager,
• you must confirm that the purpose of your arrival is work in the company.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Document supporting the grounds for the issue or renewal of a temporary residence permit.

2. Business plan;
3. Documents confirming the activity of the enterprise according to the business plan for at least 6 months in the Republic of Lithuania:

• company location documents (for example, a rental agreement of premises);
• no more than 10 agreements confirming the commercial activity of the company;
• if the company management requires the necessary permissions or licenses to carry out its activities, such permits or licenses must be provided;
• documents demonstrating the entity 's business operations and economic events (e.g. bank account statement, invoices, cash order income and expense orders of this company);
• accounting records of business operations and economic events (e.g. Ledger, transaction log).

4. Employment contracts for company employees;

These are full-time employees of the company – citizens of Lithuania and other EU or EFTA Member States or foreigners with permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, whose salaries in total are at least 2 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises).

5. Documents submitted to SE Centre of Registers  (we will get them from the SE Centre of Registers ourselves);

• documents and articles of association (statutes) of the establishment or acquisition of the company;
• documents that the value of the company's equity (in the case of non-AB or UAB assets) is at least 28 thousand EUR (company's financial statements (balance sheet, statement of changes in equity)), if one financial year has passed since the establishment of the company;
• documents confirming that you are a business manager.

6. If one financial year has not passed since the company was established: the balance sheet or the statement of changes in equity of the company, in which the value of the equity (in the case of non-AB or UAB – assets) amounts to at least 28 thousand EUR;
7. Your employment contract;
8. 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;

9. 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;
10. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction; 

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

11. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the central institution of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you or renewed for 2 year.

You can bring your family members and they can apply for a temporary residence permit with you immediately. Family members are: your spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent underage children, your dependent parents if you have been supporting them for at least 1 year and they are unable to use the assistance of other family members living abroad.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance

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.

Requirements for the company:

• the company has been operating in the Republic of Lithuania for at least 6 months;
• at least five jobs are set up, employing the citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, other EU Member States or EFTA Member States, or foreigners permanently resident in the Republic of Lithuania full-time;

Requirements for me:

• you must be a manager of the company or a shareholder of AB or UAB holding at least 1/3 of the authorised capital of the company);

In the case of AB or UAB, you must own shares of the company by the right of ownership, the nominal value whereof is at least 260,000 EUR, and in case of IĮ, MB or TŪB, the contribution (monetary or other assets) to a company or enterprise – at least 260,000 EUR.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. Documents confirming the activity of the company for at least 6 months in the Republic of Lithuania:

• company location documents (for example, a rental agreement of premises);
• business plan;
• no more than 10 agreements confirming the commercial activity of the company;
• if the company management requires the necessary permissions or licenses to carry out its activities, such permits or licenses must be provided;
• documents demonstrating the entity 's business operations and economic events (e.g. bank account statement, invoices, cash order income and expense orders of this company);
• accounting records of business operations and economic events (e.g. Ledger, transaction log).

3. Five employees of the company  contracts of employment;

The citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, other EU Member States or EFTA Member States, or foreigners permanently resident in the Republic of Lithuania employed full-time in the company.

4. Documents submitted to SE Centre of Registers  (we will get them from the SE Centre of Registers ourselves);

• documents and articles of association (statutes) of the establishment or acquisition of the company;
• documents certifying that you have invested at least 260 thousand EUR in the equity of the company (in the case of non-AB and non-UAB – in assets); (in the case of AB or UAB, you own shares of the company by the right of ownership, the nominal value whereof is at least 260 thousand EUR, and in case of IĮ, MB or TŪB, the contribution (monetary or other assets) to a company or enterprise is at least 260 thousand EUR;
• documents stating that you are the manager of the company or a shareholder of AB or UAB, owning the shares of the company with a nominal value of not less than 1/3 of the authorised capital of this company (list of shareholders of AB or UAB).

5. 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;

6. 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;
7. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

8. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the central institution of the Migration Department.

Decisions on the issue/renewal of temporary residence permits are made and temporary residence permits are issued through:

• 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.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you or renewed for 3 years.

You can bring your family members and they can apply for a temporary residence permit with you immediately. Family members are: your spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent underage children, your dependent parents if you have been supporting them for at least 1 year and they are unable to use the assistance of other family members living abroad.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance

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.

Requirements for the company:

• activities are carried out in the Republic of Lithuania,
• equity value not less than 500,000 EUR;
• with at least ten jobs with the citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, other EU Member States or EFTA Member States, or foreigners permanently resident in the Republic of Lithuania employed full-time, and these employees are paid a monthly salary of at least 3 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises), or foreigners having a temporary residence permit issued for an employee of highly skilled occupation;
• activities are carried out for at least 6 months according to the business plan in the Republic of Lithuania.

Requirements for me:

• you must be a company manager,

you must confirm that the purpose of your arrival is work in the company.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. Documents confirming the company's activities in the Republic of Lithuania:

• company location documents (for example, a rental agreement of premises);
• business plan;
• no more than 10 agreements confirming the commercial activity of the company;
• if the company management requires the necessary permissions or licenses to carry out its activities, such permits or licenses must be provided;
• documents demonstrating the entity 's business operations and economic events (e.g. bank account statement, invoices, cash order income and expense orders of this company);
• accounting records of business operations and economic events (e.g. Ledger, transaction log).

3. Employment contracts of ten employees of the company;

These are full-time employees of the company – citizens of Lithuania and other EU or EFTA Member States or foreigners with permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, whose salaries in total are at least 2 monthly average gross earnings of the employees of the country’s economy in the last quarter published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics (including the information on earnings in private enterprises), or foreigners holding a temporary residence permit issued to a highly skilled worker.

4. Documents submitted to SE Centre of Registers  (we will get them from the SE Centre of Registers ourselves);

• documents and articles of association (statutes) of the establishment or acquisition of the company;
• documents that the value of the company's equity (in the case of non-AB or UAB assets) is at least 500 thousand EUR (company's financial statements (balance sheet, statement of changes in equity)), if one financial year has passed since the establishment of the company;
• documents confirming that the foreigner is the manager of the company.

5. If one financial year has not passed since the company was established: the balance sheet or the statement of changes in equity of the company, in which the value of the equity (in the case of non-AB or UAB – assets) amounts to at least 500,000 EUR;
6. Your employment contract;
7. 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;

8. 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;
9. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

11. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the central institution of the Migration Department.

Decisions on the issue/renewal of temporary residence permits are made and temporary residence permits are issued through:

• 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.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you or renewed for 3 years.

You can bring your family members and they can apply for a temporary residence permit with you immediately. Family members are: your spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent underage children, your dependent parents if you have been supporting them for at least 1 year and they are unable to use the assistance of other family members living abroad.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance

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.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;
2. Letter of Public Body “Enterprise Lithuania”

The letter of Public Body “Enterprise Lithuania” affirms that the lawful activity, which you intend to take-up, is associated with the implementation of new technologies or other novelties having significance for the economy and social development of the Republic of Lithuania, and that you have the required qualification, financing and business plan for taking-up such activity, and that your, the future participant of the envisaged to be established company, presence in the Republic of Lithuania is necessary for the activity of this company.

3. If the temporary residence permit was changed two times for you and you want to extend it for another 2 years, the letter of Public Body “Enterprise Lithuania” affirming, that the company, which you established and, the participant of which you are, from the day of establishment attracted an investment, the value of which is no less than 30,000.00 EUR;
4. 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;

5. 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;
6. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction; 

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

7. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time address the central institution of the Migration Department

or

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

Decisions on the issue/renewal of temporary residence permits are made and temporary residence permits are issued through:

• 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.

The temporary residence permit for a start-up company is issued for one year period. This permit, after the Public Body “Enterprise Lithuania” affirms in writing that the lawful activity, which you intend to take-up, is associated with the implementation of new technologies or other novelties having significance for the economy and social development of the Republic of Lithuania, and that you have the required qualification, financing and business plan for taking-up such activity, and that your, the future participant of the envisaged to be established company, presence in the Republic of Lithuania is necessary for the activity of this company, may be twice extended for one year period. If the temporary residence permit was changed two times for you, the Public Body “Enterprise Lithuania” affirms in writing, that the company, which you established and, the participant of which you are, from the day of establishment attracted an investment, the value of which is no less than 30,000.00 EUR, the temporary residence permit may be extended for another 2 years.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

You can bring your family members and they can apply for a temporary residence permit with you immediately. Family members are: your spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent underage children, your dependent parents if you have been supporting them for at least 1 year and they are unable to use the assistance of other family members living abroad.

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.

A journalist must be accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;
2. Accreditation card;

A document confirming that you are a journalist accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and coming to the Republic of Lithuania to engage in activities under the Law on Public Information of the Republic of Lithuania.

3. 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;

4. 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;
5. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

7. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you for a period of 2 years or until your accreditation card expires.

You cannot.

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.

A member of a traditional Lithuanian religious community (association) or a state-recognised religious community or a clergyman of another religious community or community having the status of legal entity in Lithuania coming to Lithuania to engage in activities under the Law on Religious Communities and Associations of the Republic of Lithuania if your arrival is mediated by the management of the relevant religious community (association)) and confirms that you will have the resources that are sufficient for your residence in Lithuania.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;
2. Number of facilitation letter submitted by the traditional religious association/community of Lithuania or a religious association recognized by the State, or a clergyman of any other religious association or community having legal personality in the Republic of Lithuania via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) (shall be indicated via ‘MIGRIS’ when filling-out the request regarding temporary residence permit).

The facilitation letter affirms that:

• you are a respective member or clergyman of the religious association/community arriving to the Republic of Lithuania in order to take-up activity in accordance to the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Religious Communities or Associations
• you will have funds, which are sufficient in order to live in the Republic of Lithuania.

3. 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;
4. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

6. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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 may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you for a period of 2 years or for a period of religious activity in the Republic of Lithuania if this activity lasts less than 2 years.

You will only be able to bring your family members only after 2 years of your residence in Lithuania, if you have a residence permit valid for at least one to live in Lithuania and you have reasonable prospects (i.e. you can prove that you have the right to live in Lithuania permanently without interruption for 5 years).

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.

According to the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Copyright and Related Rights, the performer is an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other person who plays, sings, reads, recites, otherwise performs literary, artistic, folklore or circus acts.

A performer also includes a leader and conductor of an orchestra, ensemble or choir.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. Number of facilitation letter submitted by the public legal entity registered in the Register of Legal Entities via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) (shall be indicated via ‘MIGRIS’ when filling-out the request regarding the temporary residence permit);
3. Document affirming that you are a performer arriving to the Republic of Lithuania in order to take-up the performer’s activity;
4. Document about sufficient means of subsistence;

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;

5. 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;
6. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

7. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued or renewed to you for a period of 2 years or for a period of legal activity in the Republic of Lithuania if it lasts less than 2 years.

You cannot.

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.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit: 

2. Number of facilitation letter submitted by the public legal entity registered in the Register of Legal Entities via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) (shall be indicated via ‘MIGRIS’ when filling-out the request regarding the temporary residence permit).

In the facilitation letter must include:

• confirmation that you are an athlete who competes with other people in high mastery sports competitions organised according to approved and preliminary announced rules of this type of sports, in order to defeat my rivals and improve my physical and mental qualities and skills, or a coach training the athlete (s) to achieve excellence in sports competitions and/or during the participation of them in these competitions.
• indicating the name of the competition you will be attending or preparing for.

3. Sports activity agreement or employment contract;
4. 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;

5. 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;
6.  Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

8. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you for a period of 2 years or for a period of sports activity in the Republic of Lithuania if the duration of the activity is less than 2 years.

You cannot.

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.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. The number of facilitation letter submitted by the volunteer activity organizer via Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) (shall be indicated via ‘MIGRIS’ when filling-out the request regarding temporary residence permit;

The facilitation letter must confirm that:

• you are a participant of volunteering programmes recognised by the European Union or its Member States, which include operational solidarity action programmes aimed at non-profit-making general interest objectives and where the actions are not remunerated, except for the reimbursement of expenses related to volunteering;
• you have sufficient funds for the volunteering period and the return travel expenses;volunteering agreement;

3. Volunteer activity agreement;

The volunteer activity agreement must indicate:

• name of the volunteering programme;
• duration of volunteering;
• place of implementation of the volunteering programme and the conditions for the supervision of volunteering;
• time of volunteering;
• the foreigner's means for subsistence and accommodation costs and the foreigner's compensation for the costs associated with volunteering;
• training relating to the preparation of an foreigner for the intended type of volunteering (if any).

4. Volunteer activity programme;
5. The consent of the parents or one of them, the guardian (custodian) or another legal representative for your intended stay in the Republic of Lithuania if you are a minor;
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. Document certifying that you have sufficient funds for the period of volunteering and reimbursement of return travel expenses;

For example, a bank certificate if the mediation letter does not confirm that you have sufficient funds for the volunteering period and for reimbursement of the return travel expenses.

8. 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;
9. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

10. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

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

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued to you for a period of 2 years or for a period of volunteering for residence in the Republic of Lithuania if this activity lasts less than 2 years.

You cannot.

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.

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 submitting the request via ‘MIGRIS’ you must personally submit a petition in regards to the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit and submit biometric data, and original documents. These documents shall be added to the request:

1. Valid travel document;

Documents affirming the issuance (changing) of the temporary residence permit:

2. The number of facilitation letter submitted by the private or public legal entity registered in the Register of Legal Entities via the Lithuanian Migration Information System (MIGRIS) (shall be indicated via ‘MIGRIS’ when filling-out the request regarding temporary residence permit);
3. Document confirming that you come to run joint government programmes with foreign countries;
4. 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;

5. 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;
6. Certificate regarding conviction/non-conviction;  

It shall be needed only when you are for the first time addressing in regards to the residence permit. These are the certificates issued by the competent institutions of foreign countries, wherein you lived prior to entering the Republic of Lithuania or have been living for the past 2 years (save for those cases when you were living in the foreign country less than 6 months within 12 months period) affirming that you were/were not 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. If you were convicted, the certificate must indicate when and for which criminal activity you were convicted, what was the sentence awarded and has it been carried-out;

The certificate stating that you were not convicted may be submitted in English or a certified-by-the-interpreter’s-signature translation to English from a different language may be submitted.

7. Health insurance document;

Health insurance must conform to such requirements:

• Insurance must guarantee the payment for the expenses of emergency medical services, as they are defined in the Law on Health System of the Republic of Lithuania, and expenses that may occur, due to your return to the foreign country for health-related reasons (transportation, including, the escort of personal 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.

Health insurance is not needed, if compulsory health insurance installments will be paid (are paid) for you.

You may submit the health insurance at your own choosing:

• By filling-out the request via MIGRIS;

By arriving at the booked visitation time to the Migration Department in order to submit documents and biometric data.

You must pay the public fees for the acceptance, review of the request to issue/change the temporary residence permit, adoption 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.

In regards to the issuance/changing of the temporary residence permit, you must:

• At the booked time, address the territorial division of the Migration Department.

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

• Regarding the issuance of permit:
  • Based on the general procedure - within 4 months;
  • Based on the urgent procedure - within 2 months;
• 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.

An application for the renewal of a temporary residence permit in general procedure with the accompanying documents must be submitted at least 2 months in advance and an application for changing a temporary residence permit and supporting documents must be submitted at least 1 month before the expiry of the temporary residence permit, but not earlier than 4 months in advance.

A temporary residence permit will be issued or renewed to you for a period of 2 years or for a period of legal activity in the Republic of Lithuania if it lasts less than 2 years.

You cannot.

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.