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LATVIA
Legislation
Information on recognition of stateless persons’ or non-citizens’ children, who were born in Latvia after August 21, 1991 to be citizens of Latvia (August 31, 2002)
|
In total |
% |
Including in August, 2002 |
||
Applications accepted |
940 |
100.0 |
22 |
||
Sex of a child |
Female |
579 |
61.6 |
12 |
|
Male |
361 |
38.4 |
10 |
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Nationality (ethnic origin) of a child |
Latvians, Livonians |
0 |
0.0 |
0 |
|
Lithuanians |
17 |
1.8 |
0 |
||
Estonians |
2 |
0.2 |
0 |
||
Russians |
693 |
73.7 |
15 |
||
Poles |
52 |
5.5 |
2 |
||
Belorussians |
68 |
7.2 |
1 |
||
Ukrainians |
57 |
6.1 |
3 |
||
Others |
51 |
5.4 |
1 |
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Date of a child’s birth |
21.08.1991-31.12.1991 |
57 |
6.1 |
2 |
|
01.01.1992-31.12.1993 |
242 |
25.7 |
5 |
||
01.01.1994-31.12.1995 |
209 |
22.2 |
3 |
||
01.01.1996-31.12.1997 |
148 |
15.7 |
4 |
||
01.01.1998-31.12.1999 |
164 |
17.4 |
2 |
||
01.01.2000-31.12.2001 |
111 |
11.8 |
3 |
||
01.01.2002-31.12.2002 |
9 |
1.0 |
3 |
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Recognized to be citizens of Latvia |
893 |
|
6 |