Pagėgiai border guards detained two illegal migrants who did not have proper travel documents. Both citizens of different countries were heading West from Latvia.
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At noon on Thursday, right at the border with Latvia, on the main road Riga–Pasvalys near the village of Škilinpamūšis (Pasvalys district), officers of the VSAT Pagėgiai Border Unit Šiauliai Border Guard, conducting prevention and control of illegal secondary migration through Lithuania, stopped a passenger bus MAN Lion‘s traveling from Riga for inspection.
While checking the identity documents of passengers on the bus registered in Latvia and heading to Munich (Germany), the border guards noticed one foreigner.
The young man identified himself as an Egyptian citizen and presented an asylum seeker certificate obtained in Latvia on May 12. VSAT officers determined that the 25-year-old Egyptian had entered Lithuania illegally, i.e., without a valid passport with a visa or a temporary residence permit in one of the EU countries.
The bus driver stated that this passenger boarded unnoticed at the Riga bus station because the bus had technical problems and was delayed as a result.
The border guards did not allow the Egyptian citizen to continue traveling, disembarked him from the bus, detained him, and brought him to the Šiauliai border guard station. Later, he was handed over to the officers of the VSAT Foreigners Registration Center (URC) in Pabradė.
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On the same day, Pagėgiai border guards detained a 38-year-old Russian citizen who was illegally in our country and had arrived here illegally in Šiauliai. He was handed over to the VSAT Pagėgiai Border Unit Migration Department officers by colleagues from the Migration Department (MD) Šiauliai division.
This foreigner arrived on foot and by hitchhiking cars to the MD Šiauliai division from Latvia. He presented an asylum seeker certificate obtained in Latvia on May 7 this year. The man had no other documents granting the right to enter Lithuania and stay here. After assessing the situation, MD officers handed the foreigner over to the border guards.
VSAT officers established that a return (deportation) decision was made in Finland on March 17 this year regarding this third-country national. The man was ordered to voluntarily leave, leaving the Schengen area by May 9, but he has not complied with this decision so far.
The border guards detained the Russian citizen and handed him over to the officers of the VSAT Foreigners Registration Center in Pabradė.
After carrying out the procedures provided for in the readmission agreement between Lithuania and Latvia, regulating the return of illegally arrived persons, both foreigners will be handed over to Latvian border guards.
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