Lithuania.
How Lithuania sells residence for investors (golden visa): one programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
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Company investor residence
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Official name: Leidimas laikinai gyventi užsieniečiui, investavusiam į įmonę (Lithuanian temporary residence for company investors, Law on the Legal Status of Aliens art. 45(1)(1), (1¹), (2²))
Not a passive investment: EUR 14,000 of own money in a Lithuanian company with at least EUR 28,000 equity, active 6 months, paying staff at least twice the average wage, applicant manager or holding a third of shares. Alternative EUR 260,000 with five jobs (t-6a1b173be9). Start date of the amounts not established.
Notes from the research
Temporary residence for a foreign participant or manager of a Lithuanian company: EUR 14,000 own investment in a company with at least EUR 28,000 equity and wage conditions, or EUR 260,000 investment with at least five jobs (added 2016), or managing a company with EUR 500,000 equity and ten jobs. The Commission (2019) dates Lithuania's scheme to 2004 and found no disaggregated statistics. No official counts found. Ordinary naturalisation requires 10 years of residence.
Prices and rules
What is measured
No published numbers found for this programme. That is itself worth knowing: see the notes and the documents below.
What happened, and when
The 5 documents behind this page
- 2026-07 · Law or regulationLietuvos Respublikos įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties (Nr. IX-2206), suvestinė redakcija 2026-07-01 - 2026-10-31 · Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (e-seimas.lrs.lt)
- 2021-10 · European UnionAvenues for EU action on citizenship and residence by investment schemes: European added value assessment (PE 694.217) · European Parliamentary Research Service (European Added Value Unit)
- 2019-01 · European UnionCommission Staff Working Document accompanying the Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union, SWD(2019) 5 final · European Commission
- 2004-04 · Law or regulationLietuvos Respublikos įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties, 2004 m. balandžio 29 d. Nr. IX-2206 (original text) · Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (e-seimas.lrs.lt)
- 2004-04 · Law or regulatione-seimas record page of Law No IX-2206 on the Legal Status of Aliens (metadata) · Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (e-seimas.lrs.lt)
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