{"id":19572,"date":"2026-01-20T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/19572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:24:00","slug":"lrt-no-guarantees-or-deadlines-foreigners-wait-years-for-lithuanian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/19572\/","title":{"rendered":"[LRT] No guarantees or deadlines: foreigners wait years for Lithuanian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tINGArcquFXL1E033-uVMF5J2kIyuvD8zEBbXJPgl9c.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>They pay taxes, speak Lithuanian, work and raise children \u2013 but they don\u2019t know if they can fully tie their future to the country. For many long-term residents of Lithuania, the path to citizenship can be long and uncertain, even after they have fulfilled all formal requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nbllshrfv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They pay taxes, speak Lithuanian, work and raise children \u2013 but they don\u2019t know if they can fully&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-19572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lithuania","8":"tag-lithuania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}