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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

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

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

Recognized to be citizens of Latvia

893

 

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