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Company Participant or Manager Residence Permit

LithuaniaStarting a business

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Is this for a founder, startup entrepreneur, self-employed person, freelancer, company owner or another business profile?

The route is for a foreigner who is either a participant (shareholder/partner) and manager of a company registered in Lithuania, or a shareholder of an AB/UAB whose shares have a nominal value of not less than one-third of the authorised capital and not less than EUR 14,000.

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  • program_overview
    Lithuania's business residence permit is the Migration Department's temporary-residence category for a foreigner who is a **participant (shareholder/partner) and manager, or a qualifying shareholder, of a company registered in Lithuania**.
  • program_overview
    the applicant must be either the manager of the company or a shareholder of an AB/UAB whose shares have a nominal value of **not less than one-third of the authorised capital** and not less than EUR 14,000

What must actually exist or be demonstrated: business plan, company, innovation, clients, contracts, economic activity, job creation or other substance?

The company must have operated for at least six months before the application, in line with a business plan, carrying out the activities stated in its founding documents. The company must employ full-time staff who are Lithuanian citizens, citizens of another EU/EFTA state, or foreigners permanently resident in Lithuania, whose combined monthly wages equal at least twice the national average monthly gross wage. Documentation includes business plan, premises documents, up to ten agreements evidencing commercial activity, any required licences or permits, bank statements, invoices, cash orders, and accounting records. These claims come from a founder-authorized secondary snapshot and are not independently confirmed as complete current law.

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Limits of the record
  • This founder-authorized IMI record is secondary snapshot evidence and does not independently establish complete current law or every exception.
  • program_overview
    the company must already have carried out the activities described in its founding documents **for at least the last six months** before the application, in accordance with a business plan
  • program_overview
    the company must employ **full-time staff who are Lithuanian citizens, citizens of another EU/EFTA state, or foreigners permanently resident in Lithuania, whose combined monthly wages equal at least twice the national average monthly gross wage**
  • how_to_qualify
    Business plan; premises documents (e.g. lease); up to ten agreements evidencing commercial activity; any required licences or permits; bank statements, invoices and cash orders; and accounting records such as the ledger and transaction log

What investment, capital, income, revenue, funding or viability evidence is central to this pathway?

The company's equity must be at least EUR 28,000 (for entities that are not AB or UAB, the test is applied to assets). At least EUR 14,000 of that must be the applicant's own invested funds or other assets; for AB/UAB this must be shares with a nominal value of at least EUR 14,000, and for IĮ, MB or TŪB a contribution (cash or assets) of at least EUR 14,000. The company must also meet the payroll test: it must employ full-time staff who are Lithuanian citizens, citizens of another EU/EFTA state or foreigners permanently resident in Lithuania, whose combined monthly wages equal at least twice the national average monthly gross wage.

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  • program_overview
    The company's **equity must be at least EUR 28,000** (for entities that are not AB or UAB, the test is applied to assets); **at least EUR 14,000 of that must be the applicant's own invested funds or other assets**
  • how_to_qualify
    for AB/UAB this must be shares with nominal value ≥ EUR 14,000, and for IĮ, MB or TŪB a contribution (cash or assets) of ≥ EUR 14,000
  • program_overview
    the company must employ **full-time staff who are Lithuanian citizens, citizens of another EU/EFTA state, or foreigners permanently resident in Lithuania, whose combined monthly wages equal at least twice the national average monthly gross wage**

What business/self-employed activity may the holder conduct? Are there important restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

Answer not available

What approval/application sequence applies, how long is the status granted, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction is officially stated?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the approval sequence, duration, renewal and longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_SUSTENTA: C2 itself says two years 'except in the cases referred to in paragraph 3' (Art. 45(3): three years for the 2^1/2^2 participant/manager grounds of this same via); the value states two years flatly, dropping the exception, and residuals do not flag it. Old equity/payroll/EU-LTR defect is gone.)

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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