"We have accepted the president's request to explain some provisions of the resolutions of the Constitutional Court in connection to citizenship matters," the court said in a press release on Tuesday, but did not specify the date when the ruling could be expected.
The court accepted the president's motion after a prior inquiry, which was closed on Friday.
Last week, Grybauskaitė signed a decree and asked for an explanation whether amendments to the Citizenship Law were enough to loosen up citizenship regulations so that they stipulate that persons who left Lithuania after the declaration of independence on March 11, 1990, and consequently acquired foreign citizenship could keep their Lithuanian citizenship as well.
In the decree, the president acknowledged the provisions "would allow a large share of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania to be citizens of other countries at the same time." The Constitutional Court has said that such regulation was not possible, as, in this case, dual citizenship would be a common phenomenon rather than a rare exception.
The court is also asked to answer whether it was possible to change the law only to broaden the cases and conditions for granting the Lithuanian citizenship by exception to foreigners.
Based on the tight provisions of the Citizenship Law and earlier explanation of the Constitutional Court, the president refused the Lithuanian citizenship to US ice dancer Isabella Tobias who needed a Lithuanian passport to represent the country in 2014 Sochi Olympics with her Lithuanian partner Deividas Stagniūnas.
