Irregular Migration

This study aims to provide an overview of existing policies and practices in the EU Member States and Norway towards third-country nationals in a prolonged situation of irregular stay.

This study aims at analysing the impact of EU rules on return - including the Return Directive and related case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) - on Lithuanian return policies and practices and hence on the effectiveness of return decisions issued across the EU.

Building on the information that is already available, the aim of this study is to map and analyse the measures in place at the Lithuanian national level to fight the illegal employment of third-country nationals, possible problematic areas and obstacles in this field and strategies and good practices to overcome them.

The study pursues the aim of overviewing the rules for imposing entry bans as applicable in Lithuania and assessing the extent of application of readmission agreements.

The overall purpose of this study is to overview the use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of Lithuania’s immigration policies. 

The aim of the study is to identify the scale and scope of two instances of misuse, namely marriages of convenience and false declarations of parenthood and to provide clear evidence, to the extent possible and including available statistics, of these types of misuse and how best to address them.

This study aims to provide an overview of the situation and key trends in Lithuania in recent years in the area of migration policy and migration process management, highlighting the key events dealing with irregular immigration issues/problems.