asylum seekers

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Seimas revises asylum application procedures in response to the influx of irregular migrants

At its extraordinary session, the Seimas adopted, under a special urgency procedure, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status…

3 years ago
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Experts call for allowing asylum seekers to work in Lithuania

Asylum seekers are not allowed to take up jobs or start businesses in Lithuania until they have been granted temporary…

6 years ago
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Lithuania won’t slow down pace of accepting refugees – Minister of Interior

Lithuania will not slow down the pace of relocation of refugees after expiry of the European Union's (EU) two-year program,…

7 years ago
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Lithuania denies asylum to Tajik man linked to Islamic terrorists

The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained…

7 years ago
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Lithuania takes in 4 Afghans who worked with Lithuanian troops

Four local men who worked with Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan have come to live in Lithuania, with one of them…

7 years ago
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Migration officials drawing up housing register for asylum-seekers

The Migration Department is drawing up a register of dwellings asylum-seekers could be housed in if there is a sudden…

8 years ago
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Latvian detained for smuggling in 3 Indian asylum-seekers

Lithuanian border guards on September 23 detained a Latvian woman for illegally transporting three Indian asylum-seekers from Latvia across Lithuania…

8 years ago
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Russian journalist Nekrasov applies for political asylum in Lithuania

Russian opposition journalist Andrei Nekrasov, who arrived in Vilnius on Wednesday morning after being detained in Cyprus, has asked Lithuania…

9 years ago
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Lithuania granted asylum to 75 foreigners in 2014

The 27 European Union (EU) Member States for which data are available granted protection status to 185,000 asylum seekers in…

10 years ago
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Lithuania pauses decisions on granting asylum for Ukrainians

Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. [...]

10 years ago
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440 people asked for asylum in Lithuania in 2014

The number of asylum applicants in Lithuanian last year stood at 440, a 10 percent increase from 2013 with 400…

10 years ago
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Lithuania receives 25 Ukrainian asylum requests

Twenty-five Ukrainian nationals have asked for asylum in Lithuania over the first half of this year in the wake of…

10 years ago