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Latvia is in northern Europe on the Baltic Sea, an EU member. Its capital is Riga, its official language is Latvian and its currency is the euro.
5 Nov 2026
Treaties with Portugal, Spain, Malta, Italy, Hungary and Latvia let Vietnam credit tax paid on a home there; Vietnam's decree ties the credit to a signed treaty.
Read →23 Oct 2026
Among the 61 jurisdictions counted, the last dated closure was Spain's, on 3 April 2025. The past 12 months hold no closure, 5 restrictions, 3 to 5 openings or easings and 5 instruments that do both.
Read →9 Oct 2026
Latvia asks €50,000 in a company plus €10,000 to the state, if the firm pays €40,000 a year in tax. Four more start at €250,000 for specific uses; Malta adds €99,000 in charges, Cyprus €50,000 a year in income.
Read →8 Oct 2026
Latvia's new law omits property purchases as a ground for new investor permits; Greece, Cyprus and Malta retain home-based options, subject to investment and eligibility requirements.
Read →1 Oct 2026
Latvia starts its five-year citizenship clock only at permanent residence, and the ordinary routes of Indonesia, Latvia and, in its 2017 text, the UAE make Vietnamese applicants renounce their nationality.
Read →20 Sep 2026
Filed on 3 September, twelve days before the provision took effect, the repeal bill still has no recorded reading — one of the cumulative conditions Rule 39(2) sets for the next Saeima to continue it.
Read →3 Sep 2026
The Immigration Law the Saeima adopted in August sets no commencement date of its own, so the Constitution fixed one for it. The register now shows where the count stopped, and what stops with it.
Read →1 Sep 2026
When a statute commences, when a treaty enters into force, which temporal rule governs a filing and which text prevails are four separate questions. An instrument can settle one and leave the next open.
Read →30 Aug 2026
Four texts attach continuing duties to a New Zealand investor visa, citizenship in the Eastern Caribbean, a Maltese tax status and a Latvian residence permit. Their legal status is not the same.
Read →27 Aug 2026
Latvia's new Immigration Law removes the €250,000 property and €280,000 bank residence routes, adds a €150,000 state fund route, and fixes no commencement date.
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