Lithuania - Work Skills & Ancestry - Work Permit (based on Job Offer)

A work permit should be obtained when;

* You intend to work in the Republic of Lithuania under an employment contract

An alien must obtain a work permit before entering the Republic of Lithuania.
A work permit may be issued to an alien if there is no specialist in Lithuania meeting the employer’s qualification requirements.

(In order to find out if this condition is met, the employer who is willing to employ a foreign national has to register a job vacancy in the local labour exchange, which is in the same district where the headquarters of the company are registered. Local labour exchange is obliged to look for a required specialist in Lithuania for the period of one month. If local labour exchange is unable to find a specialist with required qualification, the employer is entitled to submit an application regarding the issuance of work permit for a foreign national.)

Documents Required for Issuing a Work Permit

The employer who is willing to employ a foreign national has to submit an application with required documents to the same local labor exchange where the job vacancy was registered. The required documents for the work permit application differ according to the type of work permit:

An employer wanting to employ a foreign national needs to submit the required documents on the basis of an individual employment contract when applying for a work permit in the Republic of Lithuania.
All the documents have to be translated in to Lithuanian language and approved by notary or another order of the same status.

Place of Issue

The employer who is willing to employ a foreign national has to submit an application with required documents to the same local labour exchange where the job vacancy was registered.

A work permit shall be issued to a foreign national and withdrawn by the Lithuanian Labour Exchange under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania.

Case processing times

An application to issue a work permit in the Republic of Lithuania shall be examined within two moths from the date of the receipt of the application at the Lithuanian Labour Exchange.

Validity of a Work Permit

A work permit shall be issued to an applicant for a period of up to two years specifying the job (position) and enterprise, agency or organization where the applicant will be employed. Work permit issued to an applicant working on the basis of individual working contract cannot exceed two years.
An alien who enters the Republic of Lithuania to take up seasonal employment shall be issued a work permit for a period of up to six months in a year starting from the first day of entry into the Republic of Lithuania.

An alien’s work permit shall be withdrawn:

1) if the permit has been obtained by fraud;
2) upon termination of the alien’s contract of employment;
3) in case of termination of employment relations with the foreign employer who had sent the alien for temporary employment in the Republic of Lithuania;
4) the alien’s temporary residence permit is withdrawn;
5) the alien’s contract of employment has not been registered within the time limit;
6) where it has been established that the alien does not meet the necessary conditions for the issue of work permits.