For those who wish to undergo naturalization of non-citizens of Latvia established another barrier. By order of the Chief of the Office of citizenship and Migration Affairs (DCMA) of November 11, 2011, classified evaluation of compulsory rules when receiving the citizenship of Latvia State language exam. Today, 6 January, correspondent BakuToday informed the Coordinator of the movement for equal rights “Andrei Tolmachev.
Thus, there is also another barrier, because, without knowing really criteria, compliance with which will be evaluated on their knowledge of the Latvian language, people cannot reliably prepare for this exam, considers Tolmachev. In his view, this demonstrates the hypocrisy of the ruling parties that publicly declare that they support the process of naturalization, and in fact put bureaucratic obstacles in the way of those who want to pass an exam and become a citizen of Latvia.
“The attitude of the State to non-citizens the question of mass statelessness is not solved in Latvia and over 20 years. The only way out is to change the law on citizenship and one-time act return citizenship to all who have been illegally selected October 15, 1991 year. We call on all citizens to subscribe for changes to the Latvian law on citizenship by any notary public, “said Tolmachev.
As reported BakuToday, latvia collects notarized signatures in support of the initiative on the granting of nationality to non-citizens of Latvia. According to the DCMA, July 1, 2011, Latvian non-citizens that lived 319267 is 14.35% of the population. October 15, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia passed a resolution razdelivšee of the inhabitants of Latvia to citizens and non citizens. There are about 80 differences in the rights of these two categories of the population, in particular non-citizens of Latvia are deprived of the right to participate in the elections.
