Five Years From The Permanent Permit, Not From Arrival - And Naturalisation Is The One Route Where You Must Give Up What You Have
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Bolivia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Bolivia to Latvia · Becoming a citizen
Article 12(1) of the Pilsonības likums sets eight conditions for naturalisation and the first of them is the one most summaries get wrong. Five years of permanent residence in Latvia are required, a break of up to a year in total is allowed and not in the last year, and then the parenthesis: for a citizen of another state or a stateless person the five years run from the day the permanent residence permit or the permanent residence certificate was received, not from arrival. Since permanent residence under article 31 of the Imigrācijas likums itself takes five continuous years, that is ten years of residence for a newly arriving foreigner. The other conditions are knowledge of Latvian, of the basic provisions of the Satversme, of the text of the anthem and of the basics of Latvian history and culture, a legal source of subsistence, the oath, and the absence of the eleven bars in article 11. The sixth condition is renunciation: the applicant must have filed notice of renouncing their previous citizenship and obtained an expatriation permit or a document confirming loss of it. Article 12(2) lifts that for citizens of EU, EFTA and NATO member states and of Australia, Brazil and New Zealand, and for states Latvia has a dual citizenship treaty with; article 9(4) forbids dual citizenship to everyone else naturalised. A non-citizen or a stateless person files instead a confirmation that they hold no other state's citizenship.
At a glance
- Residence required
- 5 years, counted from the permanent residence permit
Article 12(1)(1) of the Pilsonības likums. For a citizen of another state or a stateless person the clock starts at the permanent permit, which itself needs five continuous years under article 31(1) of the Imigrācijas likums.
- Break allowed inside those five years
- One year in total, and not in the last year
Article 12(1)(1) of the Pilsonības likums.
- Dual citizenship on naturalisation
- Forbidden, except for the states listed in article 12(2)
Article 9(4) of the Pilsonības likums. Article 12(2) lists EU, EFTA and NATO member states, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, and treaty states.
- What a non-citizen files instead of renunciation
- A confirmation of holding no other citizenship
Article 12(1)(6) of the Pilsonības likums, which names the nepilsonis separately from the bezvalstnieks and from the citizen of another state.
- Exemption from the written essay
- Anyone over 65, and a Latvian or Liv registering under article 2(1)(3)
Article 21(3) of the Pilsonības likums, which disapplies article 20(4).
- Citizenship without naturalisation
- Registration under article 2(1)(3) of the Pilsonības likums for a Latvian or a Liv
That route asks for ancestry, language and belonging and no residence at all; see the descent record.
Requirements
- Five years of permanent residence, counted from the permanent residence permit for a foreign citizen or a stateless person
- Latvian, the basics of the Satversme, the anthem, and Latvian history and culture
- A legal source of subsistence
- Renunciation of the previous citizenship, unless it is one of the listed states
- The oath of loyalty, and none of the bars in article 11
Country-level policy
No other country in this corpus has anything like the Latvijas nepilsonis. It was created by a law of 12 April 1995 whose title states its subject matter exactly: On the Status of Those Former USSR Citizens Who Do Not Have the Citizenship of Latvia or That of Any Other State. Article 1(1) defines the subjects as former USSR citizens living in Latvia, and their children, who meet three conditions at once - registered in the territory of Latvia on 1 July 1992, or with their last registered residence in Latvia by that date, or with ten years of continuous residence to that date established by a court; who are not Latvian citizens; and who are not and have never been citizens of any other state. What it is not is stated twice, by two instruments. It is not Latvian citizenship: article 1(1)(2) of the 1995 law says so, and the Pilsonības likums treats the nepilsonis as a separate third thing from the citizen of another state and from the stateless person in both article 12(1)(1) and article 12(1)(6). It is not statelessness: article 3(2) of the Bezvalstnieku likums says a person who is a subject of the 1995 law cannot be recognised as stateless, and article 2(2) says a person who has lost non-citizen status is to be recognised as stateless if they have no other citizenship. So the answer to whether it is a nationality is no on the face of the statutes, and the statutes also deny the usual alternative. What the status does carry is the thing international law treats as the core of nationality: article 2(2)(2) gives the right not to be expelled from Latvia, save by law and with another state's consent, and forbids expulsion to a state where the person is persecuted and forbids collective expulsion. Latvian immigration, employment and healthcare law then treat the non-citizen alongside the citizen rather than alongside the foreigner. The status is also closing: a law of 17 October 2019 ends the granting of it to children born after 1 January 2020 and recognises those children as Latvian citizens instead.
On 15 September 2026 a wholly new Imigrācijas likums, adopted by the Saeima on 20 August 2026 and published in Latvijas Vēstnesis 167 of 1 September 2026, replaced the Act of 31 October 2002. Transitional provision 1 repeals the old Act outright, and transitional provision 2 repeals the separate law on EU long-term resident status, folding that status into article 24(1)(2) as the pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļauja. The renumbering is total: the catalogue of temporary residence grounds moved from article 23 to article 27, permanent residence from a separate Act to article 31, employment from article 9 to articles 42 to 47. Three things the new Act brings are new in substance rather than in numbering. Article 12 creates a duty to declare a trip 48 hours before entry for nationals of every state outside ten named groups. Articles 48 and 49 create a compulsory early integration programme - a Latvian culture and history course and Latvian at A1 - for anyone whose temporary permits total 18 months or more, paid for by the foreigner; transitional provision 20 postpones article 48 to 31 December 2027. And article 27 simply does not contain the property and bank investor routes the old Act carried. The subordinate legislation has not caught up. Transitional provision 3 keeps thirty-six Cabinet regulations applicable until 1 December 2027 in so far as they do not conflict with the new Act, and those regulations still cite the repealed Act's article numbers on their face: Regulation No. 675 is issued under article 2.1(2) and Regulation No. 225 under article 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3), and the Act in force has neither article.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Bolivia
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«(1) Naturalizācijas kārtībā Latvijas pilsonībā var uzņemt vienīgi personu:»Our translation - not official
Only a person may be admitted to Latvian citizenship by naturalisation:
Eight conditions follow and all of them must be met.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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«1) kurai naturalizācijas iesnieguma iesniegšanas dienā pastāvīgā dzīvesvieta ne mazāk kā pēdējos piecus gadus ir bijusi Latvijā, no kuriem kopumā pieļaujams gada pārtraukums, kas nevar būt pēdējā gadā pirms naturalizācijas iesnieguma iesniegšanas dienas (citas valsts pilsonim vai bezvalstniekam piecu gadu termiņš tiek skaitīts no pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļaujas vai pastāvīgās uzturēšanās apliecības saņemšanas dienas);»Our translation - not official
whose permanent place of residence on the day of submitting the naturalisation application has been in Latvia for not less than the last five years, within which a break of a year in total is permitted, which may not be in the last year before the day of submitting the naturalisation application (for a citizen of another state or a stateless person the five-year term is counted from the day of receiving the permanent residence permit or the permanent residence certificate);
The parenthesis names the citizen of another state and the stateless person. It does not name the nepilsonis, who is neither.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«6) kura ir iesniegusi paziņojumu par atteikšanos no savas iepriekšējās pilsonības un saņēmusi iepriekšējās pilsonības valsts ekspatriācijas atļauju, ja tādu paredz šīs valsts likumi, vai pilsonības zaudēšanu apliecinošu dokumentu, bet nepilsonis vai bezvalstnieks — apliecinājumu, ka viņam nav citas valsts pilsonības. Šīs prasības neattiecas uz personu, kurai Latvijā piešķirts bēgļa statuss;»Our translation - not official
who has submitted notice of renunciation of her previous citizenship and received an expatriation permit from the state of the previous citizenship, if the laws of that state provide for one, or a document confirming loss of citizenship, but a non-citizen or a stateless person - a confirmation that he has no other state's citizenship. This requirement does not apply to a person granted refugee status in Latvia;
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«(2) Ja Latvijas pilsonībā uzņem Eiropas Savienības dalībvalsts, Eiropas Brīvās tirdzniecības asociācijas dalībvalsts, Ziemeļatlantijas līguma organizācijas dalībvalsts pilsoni, Austrālijas Savienības, Brazīlijas Federatīvās Republikas, Jaunzēlandes pilsoni vai tādas valsts pilsoni, ar kuru Latvijas Republika noslēgusi līgumu par dubultās pilsonības atzīšanu, tad viņš ir tiesīgs saglabāt attiecīgās valsts pilsonību.»Our translation - not official
If a citizen of a member state of the European Union, of a member state of the European Free Trade Association, of a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of New Zealand, or a citizen of a state with which the Republic of Latvia has concluded a treaty on the recognition of dual citizenship is admitted to Latvian citizenship, he is entitled to retain the citizenship of that state.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«(4) Personai, kura tiek uzņemta Latvijas pilsonībā naturalizācijas kārtībā, nedrīkst izveidoties dubultā pilsonība, izņemot šā likuma 12.panta otrajā daļā paredzētos gadījumus.»Our translation - not official
Dual citizenship may not arise for a person admitted to Latvian citizenship by naturalisation, except in the cases provided for in the second paragraph of article 12 of this Act.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«(1) Pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļauju šajā likumā noteiktajā kārtībā ir tiesības pieprasīt Latvijas Republikā dzīvojošam ārzemniekam, kas piecus gadus pirms pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļaujas pieprasīšanas nepārtraukti uzturējies Latvijas Republikā kā Latvijas pilsonis vai Latvijas nepilsonis, vai ar uzturēšanās atļauju, ja vienlaikus ir spēkā šādi nosacījumi:»Our translation - not official
A foreigner living in the Republic of Latvia who, for five years before requesting the permanent residence permit, has stayed continuously in the Republic of Latvia as a Latvian citizen or a Latvian non-citizen, or on a residence permit, is entitled to request a permanent residence permit under the procedure laid down in this Act, if the following conditions are simultaneously in force:
The permanent residence permit is the EU long-term resident status under article 24(1)(2), which is what makes it the gateway to naturalisation.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«2) viņš ir apguvis valsts valodu vismaz pamata līmeņa otrajā pakāpē (A2);»Our translation - not official
he has acquired the State language at least at the second degree of the basic level (A2);
The Imigrācijas likums names a CEFR level; the Pilsonības likums describes the standard for naturalisation in article 20 instead of naming one.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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«3) uzturoties Latvijas Republikā ar uzturēšanās atļauju, viņš ir apguvis Latvijas kultūras un vēstures kursu.»Our translation - not official
while staying in the Republic of Latvia on a residence permit, he has completed a course on Latvian culture and history.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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Practical notes
Article 11(1) lists the bars, and several of them are historical rather than criminal: acting against the independence of Latvia, professing fascism, chauvinism, national socialism, communism or other totalitarian ideas after 4 May 1990, having been a staff employee of the USSR or Latvian SSR state security, intelligence or counter-intelligence service outside its planning, finance and administrative units, and having acted against the Republic within named Soviet-era organisations after 13 January 1991. Unpaid tax or other payments to the State is also a bar.
The renunciation document is filed late in the process, not at the start: article 12(4) says it is submitted after the applicant has been officially told there is no other obstacle and after the oath has been given.
Article 13 allows the Saeima to admit a person with special merits by decision published in Latvijas Vēstnesis, free of every condition in article 12 except the oath, and dual citizenship may arise.
- consolidatesPilsonības likums
Likumi.lv - VSIA "Latvijas Vēstnesis" · consolidated to 2023-04-01
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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