🇱🇹Lithuania immigration routes

Every route we track for Lithuania, with the official source behind each one.

8

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

0

map to permanent residence

Routes

• Employed worker in Lithuania — temporary residence permit / national long-term visa

  This is the ordinary route for a non-EU citizen who has found a job with a Lithuanian employer.

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• Family member in Lithuania — temporary residence permit for family reunification

  Family reunification in Lithuania is built around who your sponsor is.

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• Permanent Residence Permit (Lithuania)

  A Lithuanian permanent residence permit is the settlement status: it lets you live and work in Lithuania without the extra procedures a temporary permit holder faces, gives you access to compulsory health insurance, lets you bring family, and opens state benefits on conditions similar to those for Lithuanian citizens.

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• Self-employed worker in Lithuania — temporary residence permit for lawful activity

  Lithuania does not offer an open freelancer permit.

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• Startup Visa Lithuania

  Startup Visa Lithuania is the state's founder-track residence route, run by Startup Lithuania under Innovation Agency Lithuania, giving non-EU entrepreneurs a streamlined path into the Lithuanian startup ecosystem.

  • No employer sponsor needed

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• Student in Lithuania — temporary residence permit / national long-term visa for study

  To study in Lithuania as a non-EU citizen you need two things: admission to a higher education institution recognised in Lithuania, or a place on a student exchange programme, and then either a national long-term visa or a temporary residence permit.

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• Temporary Residence Permit for Highly-Qualified Employment (EU Blue Card)

  Lithuania's highly-qualified worker route, published by the European Commission's EU Immigration Portal in coordination with Lithuania's Migration Department, grants a temporary residence permit known as the Blue Card to non-EU citizens.

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• Work Permit / National (D) Visa — Employment Route with Shortage-Occupation Quota Exception

  Lithuania's employment-based route requires most non-EU/non-EEA workers to hold either a work permit issued by the Lithuanian Employment Service (Užimtumo tarnyba) or a mediation letter from the Migration Department, and then a national (D) visa or temporary residence permit.

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