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6) the regulatory enactment expands the group of persons whom a third-country national,
who has a valid temporary residence permit in the Republic of Latvia, has the rights to
invite;
7) the regulatory enactment provides an opportunity to submit an application and
documents for drawing up an invitation also to the electronic united portal of state and
municipal services.
On 1 July 2010, Cabinet Regulation No.550 of 21 June 2010 "Regulations regarding
the Amount of Necessary Financial Means for a Foreigner and Procedures for the
Determination of the Existence of Financial Means" 63 entered into force which provide the
amount of financial means necessary for a third-country national in order to enter and to
reside in the Republic of Latvia or in other Member State of the Schengen Agreement, to
return to the country of origin or to leave to a third country where he has the rights to travel, as
well as the procedures for the determination of existence of such financial means. The
Regulations determine the amount of financial means for third-country national wishing to
request a temporary residence permit in compliance with the new principles of issuance of a
residence permit (Clauses 26, 28, and 29 of Section 23 of the Immigration Law), in order the
said third-country national would not cause additional burden to the social assistance system
of the Republic of Latvia. 64
On 13 August 2010, Cabinet Regulation No.725 of 3 August 2010 "Regulations
regarding the Territorial Competence of the Diplomatic and Consular Missions of the Republic
of Latvia for Requesting of Visas" 65 entered into force providing the territorial competence of
diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Latvia abroad in requesting visas.
On 29-31 March 2010, one-day seminars were held "Procedure for approval of
invitations for third-country nationals", which were organised within the framework of project
“Development and introduction of training programmes for increasing the competence of
providers of services to third-country nationals” of the European Fund for the Integration of
third-country nationals. The seminar attendees were totally 78 employees of the Office of
Citizenship and Migration Affairs whose work is related to approval of invitations. The Project
63 Published.// The Latvian Herald, No 100, 28.06.2010.
64 Executive summary to the Draft Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers "Regulations regarding the Amount of
Necessary Financial Means for a Foreigner and Procedures for the Determination of the Existance of Financial
Means".// http://www.mk.gov.lv/lv/mk/tap/pid=40176246 – [see: 14.05.2010]
65 Published.// The Latvian Herald, No 127, 12.08.2010.