Quick Facts

Dedicated immigration detention sites: 1 (2010)

Capacity at dedicated facility: 265 (2007)

Total persons detained at dedicated facility: 230 (2009)

Maximum length of detention: No limit

Number of asylum applications: 449 (2009)

Number of expulsions: 144 (2009)

Country Links

Last updated: June 2010

For more detailed information, see the complete List of Detention Sites.

Sources
(This is only a partial list. More detailed information is available upon request.)

Caritas Lithuania-Vilnius. 2007. "Lithuania." In Civil Society Report on Administrative Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in Europe: Common Position of JRS in Europe. Edited by the Jesuit Refugee Services-Europe. December 2007. www.jrseurope.org/publications/Final%20Report%2010%20NMS%20Dec%2007.pdf (accessed 12 April 2010).
Migration Department. 2010. Migration Yearbook 2009. Migration Department, under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. Vilnius 2010. http://www.migracija.lt/index.php?-484440258 (accessed 21 June 2010)
Migration Department website. 2010. “Information about Asylum Applications and Decisions made in 2009.” 18 January 2010. http://www.migracija.lt/popup2.php?item_id=778 (accessed 19 April 2010).