200 children given dual citizenship
Posted by editor on 2/25/11 • Categorized as Dual Citizenship, Society • 
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During the last ten months, 200 Lithuanian children also acquired the citizenship of other countries, the migration board reported.
According to the report, Lithuanian citizenship was acquired along with Russian (17 percent of all cases) and Belarusian (15 percent) nationality.
The next most common countries in the report were Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and France.
A small amount of the children also acquired the citizenship of Albania, Israel, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Lebanon and Mexican.
A child acquires Lithuanian citizenship if one parent is a citizen of Lithuania, irrespective of where the child was born. Beyond that the country where the child is born is often given also.
In some of the cases, three nationalities were given. This can be when the child is born in a foreign country different to the countries of the parents – for example, Polish and Lithuanian parents living in Ireland.
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Dear Tadeu Garcia,
I would advise you to address your issue to the Migration Department via email mdinfo@vrm.lt Each case is very individual, hence they should be able to provide you with a correct answer.
Best regards,
The Lithuania Tribune coordinator
Ruslanas Irzikevicius
Hi all,
just wondering about this dual citizienship – my grandmother is from Lithuania she came to Brazil in 1927 with her family. Nowadays, she is the only Lithuanian blood still alive, her parents and siblings are died. Unfortunately, she does not speak Russian (one of the languages spoken at that time).
I am trying to find information on our relatives, because she believes that some cousins and uncles are still in Lithuania. Aside of that, I also wanted to find information conclusive info on the dual citizienship.
It seems that you would have to renounce your nationality to acquire the Lithuanian citizienship which for me, it is not interesting. Whether being possible or not I still want to find some relatives, if they are still alive.
My questions is: is it possible to have dual citizienship?
They should make sure Lithuania losses all it good citizens act. Only citizens from poor countries are likely to surrender their citizenship and ties. So know most people obtaining Lithuania citizenship will be doing on more economic grounds, and not ones on re-identifying with Lithuania. Real smart, with so many Lithuanians living abroad.
The only exceptions are abandoned children or children of stateless parents. GREEK CITIZENSHIP BY DESCENT – Child born in wedlock of a Greek father regardless of the child s country of birth.- Child born out of wedlock of a Greek mother and an unknown or stateless father regardless of the child s country of birth. The precondition of the ten-year residence is not required for the spouse of a Greek who is residing for at least three years in Greece and has acquired a child as well as for the person who is born and resides permanently in Greece.DUAL GREEK CITIZENSHIP NOT RECOGNIZED.Exception Greek law does not automatically remove citizenship upon a person acquiring a foreign citizenship.
Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania..The following persons shall be citizens of the Republic of Lithuania ….1 persons who held citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania prior to 15 June 1940 their children grandchildren and great-grandchildren provided that the persons their children grandchildren or great-grandchildren did not repatriate ..2 persons who permanently resided in the present-day territory of the Republic of Lithuania in the period from 9 January 1919 to 15 June 1940 as well as their children grandchildren and great-grandchildren provided that on the day of coming into force of the Law on Citizenship they were and at the present time permanently reside in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania and are not citizens of any other state ..3 persons of Lithuanian descent if they are not citizens of any other state. A person whose parents or grandparents or one of the parents or grandparents is or was Lithuanian and the person considers himself Lithuanian shall be considered as being a person of Lithuanian descent ..4 persons who acquired citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania prior to 4 November 1991 under the Law on Citizenship adopted on 3 November 1989 ..5 other persons who have acquired citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania under the Law on Citizenship adopted on 5 December 1991…..Article 2.