Three Price Tiers for a Business Permit, and the Cheapest One Costs 14,000 Euro of Your Own Money
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Mexico on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Mexico to Lithuania · Residency through investment
Article 45(1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties sets out three ways to reach a residence permit through a company, and they differ by capital and by headcount rather than by what the business does. The entry tier asks for a company that has been trading for at least six months on a business plan, whose equity is at least 28,000 euro of which at least 14,000 is the alien's own money or property, whose staff are paid at least two average monthly gross wages between them, and in which the alien is either the director or a shareholder holding shares with a nominal value of at least a third of the share capital. The second tier replaces the payroll test with five full-time jobs and raises the investment to 260,000 euro. The third asks for 500,000 euro of equity and ten full-time jobs paid at or above the average wage, and gives the permit to the director. Separately, article 45-1 creates a startup route that is assessed rather than priced: an institution authorised by the Minister of the Economy and Innovation must confirm the business has the potential and the applicant the qualifications, funding and business plan, no more than four aliens may be participants in one startup, and the permit runs two years and may be changed for three.
At a glance
- Entry tier equity
- 28,000 euro, of which at least 14,000 is yours
Article 45(1)(1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties.
- Entry tier payroll
- Monthly wages totalling at least 2 average monthly gross wages
Article 45(1)(1), measured on the last published calendar-year average monthly gross wage.
- How long the company must have traded
- At least 6 months before you apply
Article 45(1)(1).
- Shareholding, if you are not the director
- Shares with a nominal value of at least 1/3 of the share capital
Article 45(1)(1) and article 45(1)(2-1).
- Second tier
- 260,000 euro invested and five full-time jobs
Article 45(1)(2-1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties.
- Startup permit length
- 2 years, changeable for 3
Article 45-1(4) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties.
- Participants in one startup
- No more than 4 aliens
Article 45-1(1), final sentence.
Requirements
- A company already trading in Lithuania for at least six months, on a business plan
- Equity of at least 28,000 euro, of which at least 14,000 is yours, and a payroll of two average wages
- Or 260,000 euro and five full-time jobs, or 500,000 euro and ten
- A directorship, or shares worth at least a third of the share capital
Country-level policy
Among the eighteen grounds in article 40(1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties, point 16 is not a category of work or means but a list of nationalities: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea. Article 49-5 says what those nationals may be admitted for, and it is wider than anything else in the Act - employment, or being a participant in or head of a trading company, or engaging in any other lawful activity, with the pursuit of self-employment named in terms. For every other third-country national the Act reaches self-employment only through the business tiers of article 45, which require capital and a payroll, or through four named occupations: a high-performance sportsperson or coach, a performer, an accredited journalist and a cleric. The privileges attached to the seven are consistent. The permit is three years, against two under article 44. The quota in article 57-1 does not touch it, because article 44(2) ties the quota to article 44(1) points 2 and 3. The permit carries no wage condition of its own: article 44(1)(2) makes an employer's undertaking to pay a wage meeting article 62(5) a condition of the ordinary work permit, and article 49-5 states no wage at all, though article 62(5) still governs the pay of any alien actually employed here. Article 62(4) frees a holder from the rule that an alien may work only for the employer who undertook to employ him and only in the job he was hired for. And article 43(6)(2) exempts him from the two-year wait before family members may join. The Act names the seven states itself; there is no list a minister can extend.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Mexico
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«yra dalyvis įmonės, kuri ne mažiau kaip pastaruosius 6 mėnesius iki užsieniečio kreipimosi dėl leidimo laikinai gyventi išdavimo pagal verslo planą vykdo steigimo dokumentuose nurodytą veiklą Lietuvos Respublikoje, kurioje visą darbo laiką dirba Lietuvos Respublikos, kitos Europos Sąjungos valstybės narės ar Europos laisvosios prekybos asociacijos valstybės narės piliečiai ar nuolat Lietuvos Respublikoje gyvenantys užsieniečiai, kuriems mokamas mėnesinis darbo užmokestis bendrai sudaro ne mažiau kaip 2 paskutinio paskelbto kalendorinių metų vidutinio mėnesinio BDU dydžius, ir kurios nuosavo kapitalo (ne akcinės bendrovės ir ne uždarosios akcinės bendrovės atveju – turto) vertė sudaro ne mažiau kaip 28 000 eurų, iš kurių ne mažiau kaip 14 000 eurų – užsieniečio investuotos lėšos ar kitas turtas, ir jis yra šios įmonės vadovas arba yra akcinės bendrovės ar uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininkas, kuriam nuosavybės teise priklausančių bendrovės akcijų nominalioji vertė yra ne mažesnė kaip 1/3 šios bendrovės įstatinio kapitalo;»Our translation - not official
he is a participant in an undertaking which, for not less than the 6 months immediately before the alien applies for the issue of a temporary residence permit, has been carrying on in the Republic of Lithuania, under a business plan, the activity stated in its incorporation documents, in which nationals of the Republic of Lithuania, of another member state of the European Union or of a member state of the European Free Trade Association, or aliens permanently resident in the Republic of Lithuania, work full time and are paid monthly wages amounting together to not less than 2 times the last published calendar-year average monthly gross wage, and whose own capital (in the case of an undertaking that is not a public or private limited company, its assets) is worth not less than 28,000 euro, of which not less than 14,000 euro is funds or other property invested by the alien, and he is the head of that undertaking or a shareholder of the public or private limited company owning shares whose nominal value is not less than one third of that company's share capital;
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«į kurios nuosavą kapitalą (ne akcinės bendrovės ir ne uždarosios akcinės bendrovės atveju – turtą) užsienietis investavo ne mažiau kaip 260 000 eurų, ir jis yra šios įmonės vadovas arba akcinės bendrovės ar uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininkas, kuriam nuosavybės teise priklausančių bendrovės akcijų nominalioji vertė yra ne mažesnė kaip 1/3 šios bendrovės įstatinio kapitalo;»Our translation - not official
into whose own capital (in the case of an undertaking that is not a public or private limited company, its assets) the alien has invested not less than 260,000 euro, and he is the head of that undertaking or a shareholder of the public or private limited company owning shares whose nominal value is not less than one third of that company's share capital;
The second tier. The five full-time jobs are in the first half of the same point.
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«Užsieniečiui, kuris ketina Lietuvos Respublikoje steigti startuolį ir vykdyti jo veiklą, leidimas laikinai gyventi išduodamas 2 metams. Šis leidimas, ekonomikos ir inovacijų ministro įgaliotai institucijai patvirtinus, kad užsienietis atitinka šio straipsnio 1 dalyje nurodytus reikalavimus, gali būti pakeistas 3 metams.»Our translation - not official
An alien who intends to establish a startup in the Republic of Lithuania and to carry on its activity shall be issued a temporary residence permit for 2 years. That permit may, once the institution authorised by the Minister of the Economy and Innovation confirms that the alien meets the requirements set out in paragraph 1 of this article, be changed for 3 years.
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Cannot be cited for: **The consolidations are a statutory product of the register and are not themselves the official publication of the act.** Article 19(3) of the Teisėkūros pagrindų įstatymas says that registration and publication of a legal act in the Register of Legal Acts information system is deemed the official publication of the act - of the act, not of a consolidation of it. Article 2(5) defines a consolidated version as a text prepared on the basis of the official text of the original act and the official texts of the acts amending it, which makes it derivative by definition, and article 6(6) makes the Seimas Chancellery, as the Register's data manager, responsible for preparing and publishing it properly and gives it 5 or 10 working days to do so. So these are consolidations prepared under a statutory duty by the body legally accountable for them and published in the official register - stronger than the informative consolidations of Slovakia or Romania - but nothing in the statute calls a consolidated version authentic, and the legal force is in the act as registered. **This is also not the Register itself.** The Teisės aktų registras has its own public interface at www.e-tar.lt, which from this infrastructure answers every request with a Cloudflare interstitial rather than a page, so the register's own copy could not be read and every Lithuanian reading here is the Seimas Chancellery's. **A consolidation that is in force is not the only one published.** e-seimas serves future consolidations alongside the current one - on 10 October 2026 the Aliens Act had editions dated 2026-11-01 and 2027-01-01 already on the site, the income tax law had one for 2027-01-01 - so reading the newest edition rather than the one whose window contains today gives next year's law. **The extraction inserts spaces inside the publisher's numbering**: a paragraph marked '1.' arrives as '1 .', and article 44-1 arrives as '44 1'. Quotations here are taken from the stored text and carry those spaces; they are an artefact of our reading, not of the publisher. **Amendment annotations are interleaved with the text**, so a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary picks up lines of the form 'Straipsnio dalies pakeitimai: Nr. XIII-2348, 2019-07-16, paskelbta TAR 2019-07-29'. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the amount of subsistence funds a residence permit requires, which article 27 of the Aliens Act leaves to an order of the Minister of Social Security and Labour; the annual immigration quota, which article 57-1 leaves to the same minister; the average monthly gross wage every salary threshold is measured against, which the State Data Agency publishes; the maximum basic-account fee, which the Bank of Lithuania recalculates every three years; the list of target territories behind article 4(4) of the income tax law; or anything about how the Migration Department actually decides, which is published, where it is published at all, on migracija.lrv.lt.
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«turi pakankamai lėšų ir (ar) gauna reguliarių pajamų, kurių pakanka pragyventi Lietuvos Respublikoje; 4 ) pateikia rašytinį pasižadėjimą, kad deklaruos savo gyvenamąją vietą gyvenamojoje patalpoje, kurios gyvenamasis plotas, tenkantis kiekvienam pilnamečiam asmeniui, deklaravusiam joje gyvenamąją vietą, bus ne mažesnis kaip 7 kvadratiniai metrai;»Our translation - not official
has sufficient funds and (or) receives regular income sufficient to live on in the Republic of Lithuania; 4) submits a written undertaking that he will declare his place of residence in residential premises in which the living area falling to each adult who has declared his place of residence there will be no less than 7 square metres;
The general conditions apply to the business routes as well.
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Practical notes
The 500,000 euro third tier is article 45(1)(2-2) and was read but is not quoted here; its figure and its ten jobs are stated in the summary from that reading.
The assessment methodology for a startup is set by the Minister of the Economy and Innovation under article 45-1(2) and was not read.
Nothing was read about how the Migration Department verifies that the equity is real or that the payroll was actually paid.
- consolidatesLietuvos Respublikos įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties, suvestinė redakcija nuo 2026-07-01
Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo kanceliarija, Teisės aktų informacinė sistema (e-seimas) · consolidated to 2026-07-01
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