POLICY REPORT ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN LATVIA ...

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the already started activities will be continued and focused on special groups of third-country
nationals.
In order to support integration of those families in the Latvian societies that have
children of school age, within the framework of Programme 2008 Activity "Development of
educational programmes and materials and introduction of the same in training of adolescents –
third-country nationals" the Ministry of Education and Science implemented project
"Development of adaptation programmes and materials for children of third-country nationals
of the age from 6 to 12 years", where an adaptation programme was prepared for children of
immigrations of the age from 6 to 9 years, as well as an adaptation programme for children in
the age from 10 to 12 years; work sheets for the adaptation programmes were prepared, as well
as methodical guidelines for teachers, and “Identity Passports – Portfolios” were made for each
age group (6-9 and 10-12 years). It is planned to develop such educational programmes for all
age groups in elementary education level, including children of preschool age.
2.3 Key statistics
First residence permits for family reasons
Number of first permits 732
3 Other legal migration
3.1 European Pact on Immigration and Asylum (1-2 paragraphs in the text box created for
each commitment)
The relevant commitments in the Pact for this sub-section are in particular:
I(e) to strengthen mutual information on migration by improving existing instruments where
necessary;
Please describe any (planned) sharing and exchanging of information on migration with
other Member States, through existing networks and other instruments. Note that the
European Migration Portal is to be discussed under the commitment below.
Competent institutions of Latvia exchange of information with related services in other
Member State of the European Union by using the ad-hoc query instrument offered by the
European Migration Network.
I(f) Improve information on the possibilities and conditions of legal migration
Please describe any (planned) measures to improve the provision of information on the
possibilities and conditions of legal migration. These could include, for example,
information campaigns, websites, specific centres, etc. Also refer to the European
Migration Portal. Consider the effects of the economic crisis.
The external homepage of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs offers
comprehensive information about legal migration in the country. More expansive information
campaigns about legal migration have not been planned. Responsible officials plan to place
updated information on the European migration portal about changes in those regulatory
enactments that determine the procedure for entry of third-country nationals. In 2010, the
Ministry of Justice implemented Project of Programme 2008 "Information Campaign for the
Latvian Society regarding Third-Country Nationals", within the framework of which the
strategy for the resident information 2011-2015 has been developed, as well as the plan for
information of residents 2010. It is planned to use the said strategy as the guidelines for