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Comment on We’re not as legal as you by You are William the Conqueror, not Vilius the Vergas!

You are William the Conqueror, not Vilius the Vergas! — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:45:17 +0000

[...] the European Broadcast Union determines whether “Eastern European Funk,” in suggesting inequality between eastern and western Europeans, suffers from having political content, Lietuvos Rytas yesterday published an article by Andrius Užkalnis that argues a similar point of [...]

Comment on We’re not as legal as you by Eurovision and neoliberalism: the case of InCulto

Eurovision and neoliberalism: the case of InCulto — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:29:43 +0000

[...] second post is a 3000-word monster that looks at the fate of songs with political messages in recent Eurovision conte… Then I shift into high gear and talk about miscegenation, economic inequality and the egalitarian [...]

Comment on Eurovision to welcome inCulto by Eurovision and neoliberalism: the case of Inculto

Eurovision and neoliberalism: the case of Inculto — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:27:28 +0000

[...] The first post merely introduces the song with a few video clips thrown in. [...]

Comment on We’re not as legal as you by Eurovision, politics, and InCulto

Eurovision, politics, and InCulto — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:13:36 +0000

[...] Funk,” to see if it’s “political” in nature. Though I’m certain that my 3000-word meandering on the political content of the song over the weekend in no way tipped off the EBU, I’m still sad that they’re going through [...]

Comment on Eurovision to welcome inCulto by We’re not as legal as you

We’re not as legal as you — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:35:42 +0000

[...] it’s interesting that InCulto has moved beyond the borders of Lithuania with their new song, “Eastern European Funk,” Lithuania’s representative in the 2010 edition of the Eur…. First, here’s the televised final performance, so the reader can both see the Eurovision [...]

Comment on If you read only one post about Lithuanian dual citizenship… by kestas

kestas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:47:49 +0000

Sveiki Moacir
I see the loophole in the Semas website ‘Lietuvos Respblikos Pilietybes Istatimo pakeitimo Istatymas. (The Law on citizenship) this is the real deal not the para-phrased version that appears on official webites from Vilnius and London etc.
it clearly states in article 17 .3. (1)
“1) that persons who held citizenship prior to 15 June 1940, their children,grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who are residing in other states” .(they qualify right!)
persons in this category shall implement the right to citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania after they renounce the held citizenship of another state. The condition SHALL NOT APPLY TO: ( THESE ARE THE KEY WORDS)
2) persons who held citizenship prior to 15 June 1940, who left to reside in other states during the occupations of 15 June 1940 and 11 March 1990, their children,grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of these persons.
Iki

Comment on If you read only one post about Lithuanian dual citizenship… by Julia

Julia — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:57:05 +0000

Hi,
Is it absolutely imperative that the relative left Lithuania to qualify as a Citizen 0? Basically my father is estranged for 20 years now, he lives in Lithuania, and I was told that his father (my grandfather) lived in Lithuania prior to 1940. But I assume that, like my father, he also lived his whole life in Lithuania and never immigrated (my mother’s side of the family is Jewish, but my father’s is not). My mother is not from Lithuania, but I was born there and we both had passports which I suppose technically, like you say, makes us both still Lithuanian citizens despite now being naturalized in the US. However, my mother’s Lithuanian passport expired last year and I only ever had a child’s passport which expired many years ago. Anyway, unfortunately in beauracratics, details like this are of no importance so the most important issue is whether it’s possible to obtain dual citizenship if the relative never immigrated out of lithuania?

Thanks!

Comment on If you read only one post about Lithuanian dual citizenship… by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:14:35 +0000

Kestai, I would recommend that you do a search for “loophole” on this site. I don’t describe the legal basis in this post, but I do elsewhere.

Comment on If you read only one post about Lithuanian dual citizenship… by kestas

kestas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:58:56 +0000

Hi I am on this journey and finsd some conflicting information of Lithuanian Embassy and American Lithuanian Embassy sites. It clearly states that
“The court stated that the provision saying that a person willing to get Lithuanian citizenship back did not have to renounce another country’s citizenship contravened the Constitution as well. Therefore persons, restoring or applying for the citizenship of Lithuania as of 16th of November, 2006, must renounce their current citizeship after it will be stated that he or she is eligible and can become a Lithuanian citizen. Those who are willing to apply may do so according to the established procedure. After analyzing the application the person will be informed if s/he is eligible to become a Lithuanian citizen. Person, willing to obtain Lithuanian citizenship and a passport, will then have to renounce his or her current citizenship and prove this fact to the Lithuanian migration authorities. This is valid till stated otherwise”.
My question is how does one get around this significant issue your very informative site seems to not have this as an issue, it seems to be the biggest issue. If you look at the yearbook on emigration on official LT site no new citizenships were granted to people from the 1st world in the last 3 years i.e. people did not give up their citizenship of the US UK, Canada etc. Just what is this loophole that gets dual citizenship and where is the legal information to support it. you clearly have had success. Aciu Kestas

Comment on Sometimes it’s good to miss the boat of history by Bryner

Bryner — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:06:54 +0000

But dang Taibbi likes to throw shit in peeps’ faces