Foreigners use legislative gaps to get residence permits in Lithuania

  • 2018-11-29
  • BNS/TBT Staff
After the Lithuanian Migration Department has tightened the rules for issuing residence permits, intermediaries are helping third-country nationals to circumvent these requirements by selling them shares in local companies, LRT reported on November 23. According to the public broadcaster, what a foreigner has to do obtain a residence permit is to buy a stake in an existing company and be ready to pay a certain amount of money for being its shareholder annually. LRT journalists contacted one of such migration service provides to inquire about a residence...
 
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