Procedures for Determination of the Status of Non-citizen of Latvia

Issued pursuant to
Section 1, Paragraph four
of the Law On the Status
of those Former U.S.S.R. Citizens
who do not have the Citizenship of Latvia
or that of any Other State

1. These Regulations prescribe the procedures by which a person shall be recognised as a non-citizen of Latvia (hereinafter - non-citizen), and documents necessary for granting the status of a non-citizen.

2. The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (hereinafter - Office) shall receive and examine the documents related to the granting of a non-citizen status.

3. For a person to be recognised as a non-citizen, the person shall submit to the Office the following documents:

3.1. a submission regarding granting of the status of a non-citizen, affirming that the person is not and has not been a citizen of any state, and the restrictions regarding the acquisition of the status of a non-citizen specified in Section 1, Paragraph three of the Law On the Status of those Former U.S.S.R. Citizens who do not have the Citizenship of Latvia or that of any Other State do not apply to him or her;

3.2. a curriculum vitae;

3.3. a birth certificate or an extract from the register of births (if such exists);

3.4. a document certifying the identity of a person (if such exists);

3.5. documents certifying the right of the person to the status of a non-citizen (if such exist); and

3.6. a document issued by such foreign competent authority which has been specified by the Office and which certifies that the person is not and has not been a citizen of the relevant state, has not received a permanent residence permit in such state and after 1 July 1992 has not been registered (address registered) in a Member State of the Commonwealth of Independent States without a time-limit restriction, or a documentary evidence that it is not possible to obtain such document.

4. When registering a child born in Latvia (up to the age of four months) at the moment of birth both of whose parents are non-citizens or one parent is a non-citizen, but the other is a stateless person or is unknown, and including the information regarding such child within the Population Register, the documents referred to in Paragraph 3 of these Regulations shall not be requested.

5. When determining the authority referred to in Sub-paragraph 3.6 of these Regulations, the Office shall take into account the legal links of a person to the relevant state:

5.1. the state in which the person has been born;

5.2. the state of the last registered place of residence of the person;

5.3. nationality of the person's parents and other family members; and

5.4. the state whose citizen (national) the relevant person may be or to whose citizenship (nationality) he or she may be admitted.

6. A decision of recognising a person as a non-citizen or regarding the refusal to recognise the person as a non-citizen shall be taken by an official of the Office after the acquisition of all the documents referred to in Paragraph 3 of these Regulations in accordance with the procedures set out in the regulatory enactments regulating administrative procedure.

Prime Minister A. Kalvītis

Minister for the Interior Ē. Jēkabsons

Translation © 2008 Tulkošanas un terminoloģijas centrs (Translation and Terminology Centre)