A Pensioner's Permit Exists, And It Is Only Open To Nationalities Latvia Has A Visa-Waiver Treaty With - Not To Annex II
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Dominica 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 Dominica to Latvia · Residency as a retiree
Point 34 of article 27(1) of the Imigrācijas likums is a route for retired people and it is the twelfth word of the point that decides who may use it. The permit runs for up to two years and asks three things at once: that the foreigner may enter and stay in Latvia under the procedure laid down in international treaties binding on the Republic of Latvia on the abolition of the visa requirement, that he has sufficient means of subsistence, and that he has reached the pension age set in Latvia. The first condition is not the Union visa exemption: Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 is a Union instrument and not an international treaty binding on Latvia, and article 6(3)(1) of the same Act names the two separately in one sentence. So the route is open to nationals of the states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver agreement with, and the Act does not list them. The pension age itself is not in the Imigrācijas likums either: the only age set in Latvian law for an old-age pension is the 65 years in article 11(1) of the law Par valsts pensijām, stated there together with an insurance record of at least 20 years that a newly arriving foreigner could not have. Citizens of Russia and Belarus are excluded from point 34 by name.
At a glance
- Permit length
- Up to 2 years
Article 27(1)(34) of the Imigrācijas likums, renewable under article 29(1) for the period stated in the point.
- Who may use it
- On the face of article 27(1)(34), nationals of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty with
The point requires entry under starptautiskajos līgumos par vīzu prasības atcelšanu. Article 6(3)(1) of the same Act lists those treaties and Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 as two separate things, which is the basis for reading point 34 as reaching only the first. No Latvian source read here states how the Office applies it, and the Act names no state.
- Pension age
- 65
Article 11(1) of the law Par valsts pensijām, which states the age together with an insurance record of at least 20 years. The Imigrācijas likums points at the age and not at the record.
- Income test
- Sufficient means of subsistence, with no figure in the Act
Article 27(1)(34) says pietiekami iztikas līdzekļi and states no amount; Cabinet Regulation No. 225 sets the entry figure but is addressed to entry and visas rather than to this permit.
- Russian and Belarusian citizens
- Excluded from this route
Articles 27(7) and 27(8) of the Imigrācijas likums, both of which list point 34.
Requirements
- Entry under a bilateral treaty binding on Latvia on the abolition of the visa requirement
- Sufficient means of subsistence
- The pension age set in Latvia
- Not a citizen of the Russian Federation or of the Republic of Belarus
Country-level policy
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 Dominica
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
«34) uz laiku līdz diviem gadiem, ja ārzemnieks var ieceļot un uzturēties Latvijas Republikā atbilstoši kārtībai, kāda noteikta Latvijas Republikai saistošos starptautiskajos līgumos par vīzu prasības atcelšanu, viņam ir pietiekami iztikas līdzekļi un viņš ir sasniedzis Latvijas Republikā noteikto pensijas vecumu;»Our translation - not official
for a period of up to two years, if the foreigner may enter and stay in the Republic of Latvia under the procedure laid down in international treaties binding on the Republic of Latvia on the abolition of the visa requirement, he has sufficient means of subsistence and he has reached the pension age set in the Republic of 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.
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«(7) Baltkrievijas Republikas pilsonim nav tiesību pieprasīt termiņuzturēšanās atļauju saskaņā ar šā panta pirmās daļas 10., 14., 18., 19., 22. (izņemot gadījumu, kad uzturēšanās Latvijas Republikā ir saistīta ar akreditētu izglītības iestāžu studējošo apmaiņu), 29., 33. un 34. punktu, 35. punkta "b", "c", "d", "e" apakšpunktu un 36. punktu.»Our translation - not official
A citizen of the Republic of Belarus is not entitled to request a temporary residence permit under points 10, 14, 18, 19, 22 (except where the stay in the Republic of Latvia is connected with an exchange of students of accredited educational institutions), 29, 33 and 34 of the first paragraph of this article, sub-points "b", "c", "d", "e" of point 35, and point 36.
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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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«(8) Krievijas Federācijas pilsonim nav tiesību pieprasīt termiņuzturēšanās atļauju saskaņā ar šā panta pirmās daļas 1., 9., 10., 11., 12., 14., 17., 18., 19., 22. (izņemot gadījumu, kad uzturēšanās Latvijas Republikā ir saistīta ar akreditētu izglītības iestāžu studējošo apmaiņu), 28., 29., 33. un 34. punktu, 35. punkta "b", "c", "d", "e" apakšpunktu un 36. punktu.»Our translation - not official
A citizen of the Russian Federation is not entitled to request a temporary residence permit under points 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 22 (except where the stay in the Republic of Latvia is connected with an exchange of students of accredited educational institutions), 28, 29, 33 and 34 of the first paragraph of this article, sub-points "b", "c", "d", "e" of point 35, and point 36.
The Russian list is longer than the Belarusian one and closes employment, company office and the start-up route as well.
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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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«(1) Tiesības uz vecuma pensiju ir sievietēm un vīriešiem, kuri sasnieguši 65 gadu vecumu un kuru apdrošināšanas stāžs nav mazāks par 20 gadiem.»Our translation - not official
Women and men who have reached the age of 65 and whose insurance record is not less than 20 years have the right to an old-age pension.
The only age in Latvian law that answers the Imigrācijas likums phrase "the pension age set in the Republic of Latvia". The 20-year record is a condition of the pension, not of the age.
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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
The route turns on a distinction the Act itself draws. Article 6(3)(1) lists, side by side, entry under international treaties on the abolition of the visa requirement and entry under Regulation (EU) 2018/1806; point 34 names only the first. A visa-exempt Annex II national whose state has no bilateral waiver treaty with Latvia therefore does not satisfy the first condition of point 34 on its face.
Latvia has no list of its bilateral visa-waiver treaties inside the Imigrācijas likums, and this record does not reproduce one. Which states hold such a treaty with Latvia was not established from a primary source and is written as unknown rather than guessed.
Compare Croatia, where a pensioner has no route at all and renews a catch-all permit, and Greece, where a pensioner uses the sufficient-resources permit on the same terms as anyone else. Latvia is the only one of the three with a point addressed to pension age, and it is the narrowest of the three in who may reach it.
- consolidatesImigrācijas likums (2026)
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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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