Temporary residence permit under an investment contract laying down special investment and business conditions

Route status

Active as of 2025-11-02^[1]

Open to new applications under the rules recorded below.

Residency route facts

Identity

Identity
Official name (local)	Leidimas laikinai gyventi pagal investicijų sutartį, kurioje nustatytos specialios investavimo ir verslo sąlygos (Investicijų įstatymo 13-1 straipsnio 3 dalis) as of 2025-11-02^[1] Statutory description; the Migration Department titles its page 'Atvykstu pagal investicijų sutartį, kurioje nustatytos specialios investavimo ir verslo sąlygos'.
Official name (English)	Temporary residence permit under an investment contract laying down special investment and business conditions as of 2025-11-02^[1] Descriptive English rendering of the statutory ground.
Legal basis	Law on Investments (Investicijų įstatymas) No. VIII-1312, art. 13-1(3), read with art. 13-1(1)-(2) and (7)-(9); the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens applies to these relations only so far as the Law on Investments does not regulate them (Aliens Law art. 1) as of 2025-11-02^[1] Read from the consolidated text of the Law on Investments in force from 2 November 2025 at e-seimas.lrs.lt. Amendment check (research-rules section 3 step 2): the consolidated version in force at the date of access is the one recorded; art. 2(25) was last amended by law No. XV-380 of 30 June 2025.
Instrument type	residence permit as of 2025-11-02^[1]

Who can apply

Who can apply
Nationals not served by this route	EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2025-11-02^[1] Chapter IV of the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens governs residence permits for third-country nationals. Citizens of EU, EEA and EFTA member states and their family members exercising the EU free-movement right enter and reside under a separate regime (the Law's free-movement chapter), so this ground is not open to them. Investment Law art. 13(1) para. 3 and art. 15(7) para. 5 state the exclusion in the same terms in their own text.
Minimum age	Not established from a qualifying source No minimum age is stated for this ground in the sources read.
Criminal-record condition	Not established from a qualifying source

Permit terms

Permit terms
Initial duration	up to 3 years as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(8): the permit is issued or changed for three years, or for the period of the alien's work in Lithuania where that will be shorter than three years; and it may not run longer than the investment contract.
How the initial term is set	fixed
Renewable	Yes as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(4) sets out the conditions on which the permit may be changed, which is the Lithuanian formula for renewal.
Renewal duration	up to 3 years as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(8) applies the same term to a change of the permit.
Maximum total duration	Not established from a qualifying source No aggregate ceiling beyond the investment contract's own validity period, which art. 13-1(8) makes the outer limit.
Work rights	full as of 2025-11-02^[1]

Permanent residence and citizenship

Permanent residence and citizenship
Counts toward permanent residence	Not established from a qualifying source Not sourced as a property of this ground; the country-level track applies.

Requirements

Requirements
Investment options	Option: lt-investicijos-sutartis-dalyvis Asset class: business capital Minimum amount: EUR 14,000 as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(3)(3): the alien is the investor, or a participant of the investor owning at least one tenth of the share capital of the Lithuanian company in which the jobs provided for by the investment contract are created, and whose funds invested in that company amount to at least EUR 14 000. Restrictions: The one-tenth shareholding is a separate cumulative condition on the same limb. Art. 13-1(3) has two further limbs that are not investment-family conditions at all: limb (1) and limb (2) cover employees of the investor or of the investor's group of companies who worked there for at least 3 months before the contract was concluded. Those two limbs are employment routes riding the same statutory ground. The contract-level conditions in art. 13-1(1) are tests on the investor, not on the applicant: the jobs created must pay on average at least 1.5 times the State Data Agency's last published average monthly wage for the municipality invested in, and the investor, its group or its own annual income must have been at least EUR 2 500 000 in at least one financial year of the last three.
Source-of-funds checks	Not established from a qualifying source
Income requirement	Not established from a qualifying source No income condition is stated for the alien; the art. 26(1)(3) subsistence condition of the Aliens Law applies so far as the Law on Investments does not regulate the matter.

Process

Process
Where to apply from	either as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(7): an alien outside Lithuania applies through an external service provider chosen by the Migration Department; an alien lawfully present in Lithuania applies to the Migration Department.
Statutory processing time	up to 2 months as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(7): the application to issue or change the permit is examined no later than 2 months from the day it was submitted.
Fees	Kind: application Amount: EUR 160 as of 2024-07-11^[2] Charged per: applicant Paid by: applicant Condition: standard procedure
Quota	Quota exists: Yes as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(2)(3): the investment contract must state the number of aliens who may obtain a temporary residence permit on this ground, and art. 13-1(2)(2) the period within which they may apply, which may not exceed the contract's validity. The cap is therefore per contract and set in the contract, not published as a national figure. Annual cap: Not established from a qualifying source No national annual cap. The number is fixed in each investment contract. Cap exists but is not published as a single figure: Yes
Stages	Label: Investment contract concluded with the Government or its authorised institution under art. 13(1)(6) of the Law on Investments Label: Document issued by the public establishment authorised by the Minister of the Economy and Innovation confirming that the alien meets one of the art. 13-1(3) conditions Label: Application to the Migration Department, decided within two months Statutory clock: up to 2 months as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(7).

Physical presence

Physical presence
maximum consecutive absence	6 months · to keep the permit as of 2026-07-01^[3]

Family inclusion

Family inclusion
Family members may be included	Yes as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(3)(4) makes a family member of an alien meeting conditions (1), (2) or (3) eligible in their own right, and art. 13-1(9) allows the family member to apply together with the alien or through one adult family member, with the permit issued for the same period.
Family may apply at the same time	Yes as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(9): the family member may apply together with the alien.
Family members' work rights	full as of 2025-11-02^[1] Art. 13-1(9): a family member issued a permit on this ground has the right to work and is exempt from the obligation to obtain a work permit; a family member working in a regulated profession remains subject to the recognition rules.

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Verification

Verification
Sources cited	3
of which official (tier 1)	3
Oldest as-of date	2024-07-11
Newest as-of date	2026-07-01
Reviewed on	2026-08-22
Schema version	1.1

Sources

[1] Lietuvos Respublikos investicijų įstatymas (Law on Investments) No. VIII-1312, consolidated text in force from 2 November 2025
Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas (e-seimas.lrs.lt consolidated-law service) · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-11-02 · Accessed 2026-08-17 · Archived copy
[2] Valstybės rinkliavų sąrašas – Leidimai gyventi (state fee schedule for residence permits)
Migracijos departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2024-07-11 · Accessed 2026-08-22 · Archived copy
[3] Lietuvos Respublikos įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties (Law on the Legal Status of Aliens) No. IX-2206, consolidated text in force 1 July 2026 – 31 October 2026
Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas (e-seimas.lrs.lt consolidated-law service) · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-01 · Accessed 2026-08-17