Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Receives Lithuanian e-Resident Status at the Migration Department
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, who is in Lithuania on an official visit, has become the first minister to be granted e-resident status in the country.
The diplomat and her accompanying delegation, together with the Minister of Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė and the Director of the Migration Department Evelina Gudzinskaitė, visited the Vilnius department of the Migration Department on Thursday. Ms Tang’s biometric data and other formalities were collected under the established procedures, and she was presented with a Lithuanian e-Resident Card.
This document will enable the Minister and other foreigners who hold it to use Lithuanian administrative, public, or commercial services provided electronically (remotely).
“I'm delighted to have received my first e-Resident Card. It is also a signal, a benchmark, to the citizens of my country, who will now know that they have the opportunity to access and use the Lithuanian services market. In Lithuania, as in Taiwan, e-services are like drinking water — wherever you go, you have the opportunity to use it,” said Ms Tang during her visit to the Migration Department.
“We are honoured that the Minister personally came to use the services of the Migration Department. We hope that this example will encourage other foreign citizens to use our services, which are constantly expanding”, noted Ms Gudzinskaitė.
Lithuania began issuing e-Resident Certificates in the summer of 2021.
314 foreigners have already benefited from this service, available in Lithuania and 22 foreign countries.