POLICY REPORT ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN LATVIA ...

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(subordinated loan or subordinated bonds), if the term of such a transaction is at
least five years and there is no entitlement to terminate it prior to deposit
maturity term, in accordance with terms and conditions of deposit. 61
Cabinet Regulation No.552 of 21 June 2010 "Procedures for Approval of Invitations
and Drawing up of Written Requests" simplifies the administrative procedure:
1) inviting person may request changes in an approved invitation, if he has given
inaccurate information in the application. Changes are made within one working day.
Changes should not be made if the inviting person has made significant errors in the
given name or surname of the third-country national, because it is impossible to identity
the third-country national. In such a case, a new invitation shall be drafted;
2) inviting person may purchase a health insurance policy for a third-country national and
to present it by submitting a request for an invitation, thus releasing the third-country
national from the obligation to purchase a policy and to present it when requesting a
visa. There is no such opportunity if a third-country national will request a visa at a
diplomatic or consular mission of a Member State of the Schengen agreement with
which agreement on representation has been signed;
3) provides the procedure for drafting a written request which enables an inviting party to
choose – draft an invitation in the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which is
not obligatory to be sent to diplomatic or consular missions of the Republic of Latvia
because they see data online in the Register of Invitations 62 , or to send an invitation
issued for a third-country national in paper form, which will be submitted by the thirdcountry
national when requesting a visa, at diplomatic or consular mission of the
Republic of Latvia;
4) there is no requirement for a legal entity to submit documents about payment of tax, but
only a written confirmation which shall be included in the request;
5) the regulatory enactment grants the rights to submit an invitation request also for
citizens of Member States of the European Union, the European Economic Area, and
the Swiss Confederation, if they wish to invite a third-country national to reside in the
Republic of Latvia;
61 Information provided by officials of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
62 State information systems which includes information about invitations issued to third-country nationals.