If you have no certificate attesting for the right to reinstate citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania
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You must submit the following documents:
- application (application forms – here);
- a travel document or other identity document;
- documents certifying that you are a person who had citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or a descendant of the person who had the Lithuanian citizenship before 15 June 1940;
CITIZENSHIP HELD BY THE PERSON BEFORE 15 JUNE 1940 (I am a person who had citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or a descendant of such person).
What documents confirm that a person had citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania citizenship before 1940-06-15?
Internal or foreign passports of the Republic of Lithuania issued before 15 June 1940;
- foreign passports of the Republic of Lithuania issued by diplomatic missions and consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania after 15 June 1940;
- documents attesting to the person’s service in the Lithuanian armed forces or employment in the civil service;
- birth certificates or other documents directly mentioning the possession of the RL citizenship;
- personal certificates issued before 15 June 1940 in Lithuania or personal certificates issued on the basis of the documents issued before 15 June 1940.
What if I have no documents confirming the Lithuanian citizenship I had before 1940-06-15?
In the absence of such documents, the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania held before 15 June 1940 can be confirmed by documents of studies, work, life in Lithuania up to 15 June 1940 as well as a foreign country passport and other documents.
Can I apply to a court for a finding of the fact of legal significance?
You can only if the Migration Department decides there are no sufficient documentary evidence to confirm that the person was a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or is a descendant of such person, or documents proving that the person may be a citizen of both the Republic of Lithuania and another state at the same time, such data may be established by court.
Who is a descendant of a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania?
a child, a grandchild or a grand-grandchild of the person who had the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania held before 15 June 1940.
Where to apply for the issue of documents confirming the fact of birth, death, marriage before 1940-06-15?
To the Lithuanian State Historical Archives.
Where to apply for the issue of documents confirming the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, issued before 15-06-1940, issued passports, service in the Lithuanian Armed Forces, life in Lithuania 1919-01-09-1940-06-15 and/or the fact of learning?
To the Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania.
- documents confirming the change of name or surname if these personal data have been changed;
- documents certifying that you are not a citizen of another state. Except for the cases when you can be the citizen of both the Republic of Lithuania and another state;
- Person exiled from the occupied Republic of Lithuania before 11 March 1990 – a person who held citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or his/her descendant, who was/were forcibly expelled from Lithuania by decisions of institutions or courts of occupation regimes in the period from 15 June 1940 to 11 March 1990 for reasons of resistance to occupation regimes, political or social reasons or reasons of origin.
- A person who fled Lithuania before 11 March 1990, – a person who held citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or his descendant, who left the current territory of the Republic of Lithuania before 11 March 1990 to reside permanently in another state, if their permanent residence on 11 March 1990 was outside Lithuania. This term does not include the persons who departed from the territory of the Republic of Lithuania to the territory of the former Soviet Union after 15 June 1940.
- descendant of a person deported from the occupied Republic of Lithuania until 11 March 1990 or departed from Lithuania until 11 March 1990.
- documents confirming deportation or departure from Lithuania until 11 March 1990 if you are a citizen of another state.
Exile (I have been deported from the occupied Republic of Lithuania before 11 March 1990 or I am a descendant of such person)
What is considered an exiled person?
This is a person who had citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or his descendants who from 15 June 1940 to 11 March 1990 by the decisions of the authorities or courts of the occupation regimes were forcefully deported from Lithuania for resistance to the occupation regimes, for political, social or origin motives.
What documents confirm exile?
This may be a certificate from the Lithuanian Special Archives, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Lithuania or the Supreme Court of the Republic of Lithuania.
Where to apply for the exile certificate?
To the General Archives Division of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania or to the Special Archives of Lithuania.
DEPARTURE (I have left Lithuania before 11 March 1990 or I am a descendant of such person)
What is considered a departed person?
This is a person who had citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania before 15 June 1940 or his descendants who before 11 March 1990 left the present territory of the Republic of Lithuania for permanent residence to another state, if their permanent place of residence was not in Lithuania on before 11 March 1990. This term does not include the persons who departed from the territory of the Republic of Lithuania to the territory of the former Soviet Union after 15 June 1940.
You must pay a state levy – 53 EUR.
! The state levy must be paid before the provision of services by the institutions.
You can submit your application and documents:
- Upon arrival directly to:
- the territorial division of the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania;
- Diplomatic missions or consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania.
- Through an authorised person or other representative (only in the territorial division of the Migration Department);
In this way, the signature of the person in the application must be validated by the person or authorities having the right to testify authentication of the signature of the person and the copies of the documents submitted must be validated by a person or authority having the right to authenticate copies of documents.
Documents issued by foreign authorities, with the exception of travel documents, or copies thereof certified by a person or authority having the right to authenticate copies of documents, these documents must be verified by a certificate (Apostille) or legalised and translated into Lithuanian (the translation must be validated by the person or authorities having the right to translation from one language to another)
An authorized person may submit documents only upon arrival directly to the territorial division of the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania.
- electronic communications.
Documents on citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania submitted by an electronic communication means shall be signed by a qualified electronic signature or electronically, which ensure the integrity and irreplaceability of the text.
An application by a person for the reinstatement of citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania must be examined no later than within 6 months from the date of receipt of the application by the Migration Department.
Where the law of another state does not provide for any procedures relating to the renunciation of citizenship or the loss of citizenship on acquiring citizenship of another state, or where such procedures are not reasonable, a notarised statement by the person applying for the reinstatement of citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania to the effect that he is renouncing citizenship of another state shall be enclosed; and its official translation to the state language of a foreign state the citizenship whereof is announced, if such application has been drawn up in Lithuanian or in the language of another state.
Citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania may be reinstated only once.