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Benefits
Benefits for your childBenefits for your child
Lithuanian passport and ID
A Lithuanian passport is valid for 10 years over age 16, 5 years at ages 5–16 and 2 years under age 5.
An identity card can be used for travel where accepted.
It is normally valid for 10 years at ages 16–70 and 30 years from age 70, with shorter periods for children.
Live in Lithuania for life
Lithuanian citizens can live in Lithuania indefinitely and return to settle at any time.
Citizenship does not expire, and there is no minimum time you must live in Lithuania to keep it.
Work in Lithuania
Lithuanian citizens can choose a job or start a business in Lithuania without immigration restrictions on their right to work.
Get help abroad
Lithuanian citizens can seek consular help abroad, including a return certificate or temporary passport if a document is lost.
Where Lithuania has no embassy or consulate outside the EU, another EU country's embassy or consulate can help with emergencies, including lost documents, arrest or serious illness.
Vote and run for office
Lithuanian citizens can vote from age 18, unless a court has declared them legally incapable.
Citizens can also take part in government and stand for office, with separate eligibility rules for each office.
Use public healthcare
People with compulsory health insurance can use covered healthcare in Lithuania; people without the required insurance generally pay for treatment.
Permanent residents are entitled to emergency medical help.
In other EU countries, access depends on eligibility and insurance rules.
Get social support
Lithuanian citizens can qualify for pensions and support for old age, disability, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, loss of a breadwinner and other circumstances.
Payments depend on the conditions for each benefit.
Social-security rules can also coordinate support across EU countries.
How to apply
Applying from inside LithuaniaApplying from inside Lithuania
Gather your documents
Your parent or legal representative should prepare the required documents for the Migration Department.
See required documentsFill in the application
Your parent or legal representative should create or sign in to a MIGRIS account and select the application for a child’s acquisition of Lithuanian citizenship. They should fill in your details and upload your documents.
Fill in the applicationPay any applicable fee
Your parent or legal representative should pay any fee shown in MIGRIS before submitting the application, using the payment instructions there.
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Submit the application
Your parent or legal representative should submit your application in MIGRIS. They can also hand it in directly at the Migration Department or an authorised local service office.
Submit the applicationBook an appointment
If MIGRIS asks for a visit, your parent or legal representative should book an appointment at the indicated Migration Department service location.
Book an appointmentGo to the appointment
If a visit is required, your parent or legal representative should bring the original documents and identification to the appointment. They should follow the instructions for any identity or signature checks.
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Wait for the decision
Your parent or legal representative can follow the application in MIGRIS and answer any requests for more information or documents.
Follow the applicationGet your citizenship document
Once your citizenship has been confirmed and entered in the Population Register, your parent or legal representative can get a document confirming your Lithuanian citizenship. You can use it as proof of your citizenship.
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Documents needed
Family certificates and recordsFamily certificates and records
Birth certificate
Provide your registered birth certificate. If your birth has not been registered in Lithuania, provide the birth record issued in the country where it was registered.
Adoption decision
Provide the court decision or another official document proving your adoption. It should show the facts of your adoption, including its date.
Adoptive parent's citizenship records
Provide a record showing that your adoptive parent was a Lithuanian citizen on the date of your adoption. Your adoption decision may show this; otherwise, provide a citizenship record.
Considerations
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Reporting another citizenship
If you acquire another citizenship, you generally must notify Lithuania within two months, unless an exception applies.
You can notify the responsible Lithuanian office, embassy or consulate.
Tax on public income
In certain circumstances, Lithuanian citizens receiving Lithuanian public funding or pay may be treated as Lithuanian tax residents, including when abroad.
Tax residents are generally taxed on income from Lithuania and abroad, with tax agreements taken into account.
Military and defence duties
Lithuanian citizens may have to perform military or alternative service or other defence duties, including when living abroad.
Who is called depends on the rules, including age, health, exemptions and postponements.
Women are not subject to the same universal peacetime call-up rule as men.
Citizenship can be lost
Citizenship can end if you give it up, gain another without an exception, or fail to give up another by 21 when required.
It can also end through unauthorised service for another state, a treaty, fraud, forged documents, unmet conditions or an unlawful decision.
A child may lose it when a parent does, but generally not if acquired at birth, or if this leaves the child without any citizenship.
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