Foreigners Who Lost Their Temporary Residence Permits Outside the Territory of Lithuania to Be Able to Order Duplicates Through the External Service Provider

The Lithuanian Migration Department, while improving the quality of the provided electronic services and the operation of the information system MIGRIS, has introduced an improvement.

This novelty will allow a foreigner, who has temporarily departed from Lithuania and has lost, damaged, or otherwise lost his/her temporary residence permit card in Lithuania, to apply for reissuance of this permit through the external service provider VFS Global.

Firstly, a foreigner will have to log in to his/her MIGRIS account, submit a notice on the lost document and fill out an application for processing a new temporary residence permit. When filling out the application, the foreigner will have to specify the branch of the external service provider, where he/she intends to arrive to submit the application and afterwards collect the issued card.

Currently, the aforesaid services are provided at VFS Global offices in 34 world countries:

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malaysia, Moldova, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Republic of South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Venezuela.

Applications regarding processing of a new temporary residence permit will be examined within 10 working days and a foreigner will be informed about the issued permit in a separate notice. The produced temporary residence permit will be sent to the VFS Global office by courier; therefore, it should be noted that the forwarding of a document itself to a foreign country may take additional time.

MIGRATION LAW CENTER