No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.
The requirements
- Programme status
- No dedicated nomad visa
- Minimum monthly income
- No fixed amount
- Required savings
- None
- Annual total
- No fixed amount
- Initial duration
- 2 years, extendable to 5 in total (startup route)
- Family allowed
- Yes
- Apply online
- Yes
No digital nomad route and no personal threshold set for one. Every temporary residence permit is tested against the same subsistence rule: funds equal to the Lithuanian minimum monthly wage, EUR 1,153 in 2026, for each month of the permit. Commercial guides market a 'Lithuania Digital Nomad Visa' at EUR 5,460/month; no such category exists in either the national visa grounds or the residence permit grounds.
How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: No figure is set for remote work, because there is no remote-work permit. The general subsistence test applies to whichever permit the applicant does use: funds of at least one minimum monthly wage (MMA) for each month applied for - EUR 1,153 a month in 2026, EUR 13,836 for a year - shown by a bank statement, an employment contract or equivalent. A foreigner already working lawfully in Lithuania on at least the minimum wage files nothing separate.
Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-21
Legal basis: Law on the Legal Status of Aliens (IX-2206). The grounds are read from two of the authorities' own enumerations rather than from the statute text: the Migration Information Centre, run by IOM under the Migration Department (micenter.lt, temporary residence permit), which lists the residence permit grounds and states the 2026 subsistence figure, and the state migration information service renkuosilietuva.lt, which lists the national visa (D) grounds. Neither list carries remote work for a foreign employer. Graded medium for that reason: the Migration Department's own pages are a JavaScript application and e-tar.lt's consolidated text is behind a challenge page, so neither could be read directly.
Does this lead to permanent residence?
Direct pathway. No nomad permit to convert; the ordinary route is permanent residence after five years' continuous residence, which temporary-residence years count toward.
Pathway confidence: unverified
Not yet checked against this country’s permanent-residence rules.
Where it is
Vilnius sits at 54.69° N, 25.28° E.
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Time zone
- UTC+3 Vilnius (Europe/Vilnius)
The country
- Region
- Europe · Baltic
- Capital
- Vilnius
- Currency
- EUR
- Schengen area
- Yes
Next door
2 of the 4 countries Lithuania shares a land border with are covered here.
All of them are in the Schengen area, as Lithuania is. For a visitor that is one clock, not several: the 90 days in any 180 are spent across all of it.
What it costs to live there
$1,499 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Lithuania spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.
- Vilnius
- $1,314 / month incl. rent
of which rent $627
City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.
Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.
Languages
- Lithuanian official
- Russian widely spoken
- English widely spoken
- German common in cities
Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".
How to apply
There is no live application for Lithuania in this dataset. What the row records about residence: No nomad permit to convert; the ordinary route is permanent residence after five years' continuous residence, which temporary-residence years count toward.
Startup Lithuania, startup visa ↗
There is no digital nomad visa. The national visa (D) is issued on an enumerated list of grounds - exchange students, lecturers and researchers, athletes and coaches, seafarers, accredited journalists, people who cannot leave, entrepreneurs investing in a newly registered Lithuanian company, seasonal workers, posted workers, and arrivals under international agreements - and remote work for a foreign employer is not among them. The residence permit grounds are the same shape: family, work, study, lawful business activity, Lithuanian descent, and so on. A non-EU remote worker's real options are the startup visa, a work visa tied to a Lithuanian employer, or a business-activity permit for a company they register here. EU, EEA and Swiss citizens need none of it.
A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by Junaid Qadir.