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RESIDENCE PERMITS

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If you are a citizen of the European Unionor the European economic zone, your:

temporary residence permit is revoked if:

• the circumstances that allowed you to receive a residence permit have changed or are non-existent, except for the case when your employment or self-employment has been interrupted due to a temporary condition of an illness or an accident or forced unemployment;
• you do not have sufficient financial means to support yourself;
• the residence permit was obtained based on providing false information;
• you are away from the Republic of Latvia for more than six months a year, unless there is a valid reason for your absence;
• it has been determined that you pose a threat to the state security, public security or public health.

permanent residence permit is revoked if:

• the residence permit was obtained based on providing false information
• you pose a threat to the state security and limiting your personal freedom is in the best interest of the general public and the state;
• for more than two years you have been away from the Republic of Latvia, unless there is a valid reason for your absence.

If you are a citizen of a third country your:

temporary residence permit is revoked in case:

• in a order to receive a residence permit the foreigner has supplied false information;
• the foreigner lacks the required financial means to reside in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner is included in the list of the individuals whose entrance into the Republic of Latvia is forbidden;
• the foreigner has been found guilty by a court ruling for an offence committed in the Republic of Latvia or outside it that, according to the legislation of the Republic of Latvia, provides for the sentence of imprisonment for a period not less than two years;
• the foreigner has joined military service or other public service of a foreign country;
• there are grounds to believe that the foreigner has entered a fictitious marriage in order to receive a residence permit in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner works without an employment permit;
• the inviter recalls the call in writing;
• the inviter has lost his/her judicial status or the rights to reside in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner has failed to comply with the liabilities set out in the decision on the residence permit issue;
• the conditions serving as the basis for a temporary residence permit issuing to the foreigner are not any more valid or have changed;
• an alien resides continuously outside the Republic of Latvia for more than three months within a period of one year from the date of the arrival at the state border crossing point or  for more than six months within a period of one year from the date of the arrival at the state border crossing point, except in the case where the absence has been declared in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Cabinet and this absence is documentary provided with justifiable reason. The absence, which is related to employment, is considered as justifying only in a case, if an alien have had unemployment status continuously nine months in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner has departed for permanent residence in another country;
• the foreigner has employed another foreigner lacking an employment permit;
• the foreigner has provided place of residence for another foreigner illegally residing in the Republic of Latvia;
• it has been stated by a court ruling that the foreigner has helped other foreigner to enter the Republic of Latvia illegally;
• the inviter resides outside the Republic of Latvia for more than six months within a period of one year, except in the case the inviter is a seafarer or does the military service at the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia or civil service outside the Republic of Latvia;
  
• an alien resides in the Republic of Latvia in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph one, Clauses 2, 3, 4 or 7 of this Law and the taxes for an alien have not been paid for the last year or he/she has liabilities of taxes stated by the normative acts;
• spouses have not complied with the term referred to in Section 26, Paragraph three of this Law or here is reason to believe that the marriage in fact does not exist.
  
  

permanent residence permit is revoked in case:

• the foreigner has provide false information;
• the foreigner is included in the list of the individuals whose entrance into the Republic of Latvia is forbidden;
• the foreigner has been found guilty by a court ruling for a grave offence or
  especially grave offence committed in the Republic of Latvia;
• an alien resides continuously outside the Republic of Latvia for more than six months within a period of one year from the date of the arrival at the state border crossing point or  for more than two years and six months within a period of five year from the date of the arrival at the state border crossing point, except in the case where the absence has been declared in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Cabinet and this absence is documentary proved with justifiable reason. The absence, which is related to employment, is considered as justifying only in a case, if an alien has had unemployment status continuously nine months in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner has departed for permanent residence in another country;
• there are grounds to believe that the established adoption is fictitious and arranged in order for the foreigner to receive a residence permit in the Republic of Latvia;
• the foreigner has forfeited or has been deprived of the status of the refugee;
• the foreigner has forfeited the status of the repatriate;
• the foreigner is a family member of a person with forfeited status of the repatriate and has received permanent residence permit in accordance with the procedure stipulated by the Repatriation Law;
• the foreigner is a family member of a person with forfeited status of the refugee;
• the permanent residence permit has been issued in accordance with
  Paragraph 8 of Part 1, Article 24 of the Law, and there are grounds to remove the status of the citizen or non-citizen of Latvia in accordance with the Citizenship Law or the Law “On the Status of Those Former USSR Citizens who have Neither Latvian nor Other State’s Citizenship”.