Lithuanian citizenship, answered.

Yes. Lithuania is a full member of the European Union. A Lithuanian passport gives you the right to live, work, study, and retire in any of the 27 EU countries, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein.

No. This route is one of the specific categories Lithuanian law lets you keep your existing citizenship. If your family left or was exiled from Lithuania before 11 March 1990, you and your descendants can hold both. You renounce nothing.

Three. The law reaches children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of a person who was a Lithuanian citizen before 1940. If your Lithuanian ancestor is a great-great-grandparent or further back, this route does not reach you.

Yes. The great-grandchild is exactly where the law draws the line, so you are at the edge but inside it. The thing we pin down carefully is the generation count and the exact dates, because that is where these cases are won or lost.

It means your ancestor held citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, the independent state that existed from 16 February 1918 until the Soviet occupation on 15 June 1940. Being "from the region" under the old Russian Empire is not enough on its own. We prove the citizenship from archive and civil records.

No. There is no language test, no constitution test, and no oath. This is reinstatement of a right you inherited, not naturalization, so the naturalization requirements do not apply.

No. The whole file is built and submitted online through Lithuania's MIGRIS system. You appear in person once, at a Lithuanian consulate in the US, or the Embassy in Washington, DC, to present your original documents and give biometrics.

This is common, and it is the part we handle. Most of the proof lives in Lithuanian state archives: pre-war passports, internal passports, military and census records. We order and chase those records for you. Many families come to us with nothing more than a name and a town, and we build the file from there.

No, it is expected. Litvak names shift across Yiddish, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and Latin spellings, and Soviet-era and immigration records add more variants. Reconciling those spellings to the official record is routine work for us.

Once the file is complete, the Migration Department's target for a decision is up to six months. Including the archive search and translations, most cases run six to twelve months end to end. We give you a realistic read on your specific case, not a sales number.

The Lithuanian state application fee is €120, plus pass-through costs for apostilles, certified translations, and archive retrieval. Our fee covers running the entire case. We quote you a clear number after the free assessment, once we have seen your facts.

Yes. Once your citizenship is reinstated, children born to you afterward acquire Lithuanian citizenship by descent. For children already born, we assess them on the same generational rules and include them in the plan where they qualify.

It can. If the departure was into the territory of the former Soviet Union after 15 June 1940, the dual-citizenship category does not apply on that fact, which usually means renouncing the other citizenship. We look at the exact route and dates before telling you where you stand.

That is Latvia, not Lithuania. Lithuania has no date-of-birth cutoff for descendants. The only limit here is the great-grandchild generation. People mix the two countries up constantly, so it is worth checking which one your family is from.

No. The 2024 referendum aimed to broaden dual citizenship for everyone and fell short of the approval threshold it needed. Nothing about this route changed. The exemption for people who left before 1990 and their descendants already existed and still stands today.