Citizens of Russia and Belarus, who wish to obtain a visa to stay in Lithuania, will have to answer the questionnaire about their position on the issues of the war in Ukraine, writes the Lithuanian media LRT.
Migration Department head Evelina Gudzinskaitė told the media that this is like an additional filter to see if the person is ready to cooperate and follow all the rules of Lithuania and whether a person poses a threat to national security.
According to the Lithuanian Migration Department, questions about the war in Ukraine will have to be answered by citizens of Russia and Belarus, but these questions can also be in the interviews of citizens of other countries.
The application will not be accepted if these questions are not answered at all or if answers are incomplete; answers about the war in Ukraine will be the determining factor for issuing or refusing a visa.
The questionnaire includes questions about education, work experience, military service, cooperation partners in business, contacts with institutions located in non-European countries, as well as about the attitude towards the war in Ukraine.
After Moscow’s violent invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania decided to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens. Later, it was decided that tourist visas issued elsewhere in the Schengen area also wouldn’t be recognized in Lithuania.
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