Yesterday’s Radio Free Europe Newsline (www.rfe.rl) carried a story that Lithuania has just passed a new law allowing dual citizenship. A short quote from the above:
“The parliament approved a new citizenship law on 17 September that will allow its nationals to retain Lithuanian citizenship after acquiring citizenship of another country, ELTA reported. Under the previous law, Lithuanian citizens were automatically stripped of their citizenship when they became citizens of another country.”
Curious how this might apply to descendants of Lithuanian citizens born abroad, or to Lithuanians who had already lost their citizenship in this way and wanted to regain it, I googled it, in hopes of finding some original source material.
Alas, I can’t find anything halfway definitive, except in Lithuanian (which I don’t read, of course). Here’s what I think is a link to the full text of the 1991 citizenship law:
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Lithuania/Lithuania_Citizenship_Lithuanian.htm
So does anyone have more details on acquiring derivative Lithuanian citizenship, or reacquiring lost Lithuanian citizenship? I’m off to try the Lithuanian Embassy’s site next, but they generally don’t have anything specific on legislation that is this new. And BTW, does anything else have to happen for the law to take effect, like signature by the President?