Lithuania’s migration policy must be tightened

Lithuania’s migration policy must be tightened, Deividas Matulionis, the president’s chief national security advisor, said on Friday.

“Migration policy must be tightened in order to protect business, but at the same time to solve all the problems faced by society,” Matulionis told reporters after President Gitanas Nausėda’s meeting with Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovič.

Kondratovič said that around 200,000 foreign nationals live in Lithuania, but their numbers have been declining, which is at least partly due to the stricter migration controls that have been implemented.
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“We will not be relaxing those controls,” the minister said.
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According to him, migration officials will cooperate more closely with higher education institutions to ensure foreign students are not enrolled in education fraudulently.

The politician also said that the ministry has recently made considerable efforts to consult with the foreign ministry and other institutions on which countries’ citizens would be culturally acceptable to Lithuania.

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