No Retirement Route Either, and the Only Pension in the Act Belongs to Somebody Else's Parent
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Panama 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 Panama to Lithuania · Residency as a retiree
Lithuania has no residence permit for a retired person. The grounds in article 40(1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties contain nothing resembling one, and the single place in the Act where a pension decides anything is article 43(1)(7), where the parents of an alien who already holds a permanent residence permit may be reunited with them if they are unfit for work by reason of old-age pension age or disability. Age does buy something, but later and elsewhere: under article 53(6) the state language and constitutional examinations are required of a person reaching permanent residence through five years of lawful residence, and under article 53(8) they are not required of anyone who has turned 65. The same relief runs through the citizenship law, where article 18(4) excuses applicants aged 65 from both examinations. So Lithuania asks less of an older applicant at the end of the road and offers no way onto it.
At a glance
- Retirement residence permit
- None in article 40(1) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties, whose grounds end at point 16
The same closed list that carries no income route carries no retirement route.
- Where a pension does count
- Article 43(1)(7): a parent unfit for work by old age or disability joining a permanent resident
Family reunification, not a route of the retiree's own.
- Language and constitution examinations for permanent residence
- Not required from the age of 65
Article 53(8) of the Įstatymas dėl užsieniečių teisinės padėties, which disapplies the article 53(6) examinations.
- Language and constitution examinations for citizenship
- Not required from the age of 65
Article 18(4) of the Pilietybės įstatymas, which disapplies points 3 and 4 of article 18(1).
Requirements
- There is no residence permit for a retired person of independent means
- A pension appears in the Act only where a dependent parent joins a permanent resident
- From 65, the examinations for permanent residence and for citizenship fall away
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Panama
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
«jis yra Australijos, Japonijos, Jungtinės Didžiosios Britanijos ir Šiaurės Airijos Karalystės, Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų, Kanados, Naujosios Zelandijos, Pietų Korėjos pilietis, kuris ketina dirbti ar užsiimti kita teisėta veikla Lietuvos Respublikoje.»Our translation - not official
he is a national of Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand or South Korea who intends to work or to engage in other lawful activity in the Republic of Lithuania.
The last ground in the list. There is no seventeenth.
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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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«Lietuvos Respublikoje gyvena užsieniečio tėvai, kurie yra nedarbingi dėl senatvės pensijos amžiaus arba negalios ir turi leidimą nuolat gyventi;»Our translation - not official
the alien's parents, who are unfit for work by reason of old-age pension age or disability and hold a permanent residence permit, live in the Republic of Lithuania;
The only place a pension decides anything, and it decides it for the parent of a resident.
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The Seimas Chancellery's legal acts information system at e-seimas.lrs.lt, and in practice the only reachable public face of the Lithuanian statute book. Every instrument has a document identifier - TAIS.<number> for anything registered before 2014, a 32-character hex identifier after it - and lives at /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>. That page is a JavaScript shell: it carries the metadata, the article tree and the list of consolidated versions by date, and no statutory text at all. The text is in an iframe at /rs/actualedition/<id>/<editionId>/, where <editionId> names one consolidated version; /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>/asr always resolves to the version in force today and is where the current edition identifier is found. Those identifiers are stable - the same one comes back on repeated requests - but they change when a new consolidation is published, so a stored URL is a URL to one point-in-time text and not to 'the current law'. Each consolidation prints its own validity window on its first line: 'Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2026-07-01 iki 2026-10-31'. The same address also serves the text as PDF and as ODT under /format/ISO_PDF/ and /format/OO3_ODT/. The HTML is Word-generated and extracts cleanly by direct fetch; the Aliens Act came out at 567,031 characters with all 146 of its articles present.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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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«Leidimas nuolat gyventi, išduodamas šio straipsnio 1 dalies 8–8 2 punktuose nustatytais pagrindais, gali būti išduotas, jeigu užsienietis išlaikė valstybinės kalbos egzaminą ir Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucijos pagrindų egzaminą.»Our translation - not official
A permanent residence permit issued on the grounds laid down in points 8 to 8-2 of paragraph 1 of this article may be issued if the alien has passed the state language examination and the examination on the basics of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.
The examinations, and the routes they attach to.
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The Seimas Chancellery's legal acts information system at e-seimas.lrs.lt, and in practice the only reachable public face of the Lithuanian statute book. Every instrument has a document identifier - TAIS.<number> for anything registered before 2014, a 32-character hex identifier after it - and lives at /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>. That page is a JavaScript shell: it carries the metadata, the article tree and the list of consolidated versions by date, and no statutory text at all. The text is in an iframe at /rs/actualedition/<id>/<editionId>/, where <editionId> names one consolidated version; /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>/asr always resolves to the version in force today and is where the current edition identifier is found. Those identifiers are stable - the same one comes back on repeated requests - but they change when a new consolidation is published, so a stored URL is a URL to one point-in-time text and not to 'the current law'. Each consolidation prints its own validity window on its first line: 'Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2026-07-01 iki 2026-10-31'. The same address also serves the text as PDF and as ODT under /format/ISO_PDF/ and /format/OO3_ODT/. The HTML is Word-generated and extracts cleanly by direct fetch; the Aliens Act came out at 567,031 characters with all 146 of its articles present.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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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«Asmenims, kuriems sukako 65 metai, asmenims, kuriems nustatytas 0–55 procentų dalyvumo lygis (iki 2023 m. gruodžio 31 d. – 0–55 procentų darbingumo lygis), ir asmenims, kuriems Lietuvos Respublikos asmens su negalia teisių apsaugos pagrindų įstatymo nustatyta tvarka yra nustatyti individualieji pagalbos poreikiai (iki 2023 m. gruodžio 31 d. – specialieji poreikiai) , taip pat sunkių lėtinių psichikos ir elgesio sutrikimų turintiems asmenims, vaikams ir užsieniečiams, kurių anksčiau turėtas leidimas nuolat gyventi buvo panaikintas šio Įstatymo 54 straipsnio 1 dalies 3 ar 4 punkte nustatytais pagrindais, šio straipsnio 6 dalyje nustatyti reikalavimai netaikomi.»Our translation - not official
The requirements laid down in paragraph 6 of this article do not apply to persons who have reached the age of 65, to persons with a level of participation of 0 to 55 per cent (until 31 December 2023, a level of capacity for work of 0 to 55 per cent), to persons for whom individual assistance needs have been established under the procedure laid down by the Law on the Fundamentals of the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Republic of Lithuania (until 31 December 2023, special needs), and to persons with severe chronic mental and behavioural disorders, to children, and to aliens whose earlier permanent residence permit was revoked on the grounds laid down in points 3 or 4 of article 54(1) of this Act.
The age relief, written as a disapplication rather than as a privilege.
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The Seimas Chancellery's legal acts information system at e-seimas.lrs.lt, and in practice the only reachable public face of the Lithuanian statute book. Every instrument has a document identifier - TAIS.<number> for anything registered before 2014, a 32-character hex identifier after it - and lives at /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>. That page is a JavaScript shell: it carries the metadata, the article tree and the list of consolidated versions by date, and no statutory text at all. The text is in an iframe at /rs/actualedition/<id>/<editionId>/, where <editionId> names one consolidated version; /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>/asr always resolves to the version in force today and is where the current edition identifier is found. Those identifiers are stable - the same one comes back on repeated requests - but they change when a new consolidation is published, so a stored URL is a URL to one point-in-time text and not to 'the current law'. Each consolidation prints its own validity window on its first line: 'Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2026-07-01 iki 2026-10-31'. The same address also serves the text as PDF and as ODT under /format/ISO_PDF/ and /format/OO3_ODT/. The HTML is Word-generated and extracts cleanly by direct fetch; the Aliens Act came out at 567,031 characters with all 146 of its articles present.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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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Practical notes
The negative claim rests on the same reading as the income record: articles 40 to 52 of the Act in full, in the consolidation in force from 1 July 2026.
Nothing was read about how a foreign pension is taxed once a person does become resident here. The income tax record states the residence test only.
- 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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The Seimas Chancellery's legal acts information system at e-seimas.lrs.lt, and in practice the only reachable public face of the Lithuanian statute book. Every instrument has a document identifier - TAIS.<number> for anything registered before 2014, a 32-character hex identifier after it - and lives at /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>. That page is a JavaScript shell: it carries the metadata, the article tree and the list of consolidated versions by date, and no statutory text at all. The text is in an iframe at /rs/actualedition/<id>/<editionId>/, where <editionId> names one consolidated version; /portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/<id>/asr always resolves to the version in force today and is where the current edition identifier is found. Those identifiers are stable - the same one comes back on repeated requests - but they change when a new consolidation is published, so a stored URL is a URL to one point-in-time text and not to 'the current law'. Each consolidation prints its own validity window on its first line: 'Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2026-07-01 iki 2026-10-31'. The same address also serves the text as PDF and as ODT under /format/ISO_PDF/ and /format/OO3_ODT/. The HTML is Word-generated and extracts cleanly by direct fetch; the Aliens Act came out at 567,031 characters with all 146 of its articles present.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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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