90 days to collect things: from Latvia plan to deport up to 4 thousand Russians
3600 Russians will receive a message with a request to leave the country next week. They will have 3 months to fulfill the requirement of local authorities. "Those who have not passed the exam and did not apply, the next week will be sent to them - they will be recruited about 3600 - will have to leave Latvia.
In these 90 days, many will start doing something and fussy - we get a lot Calls: Like, my mother said she would do everything, but it turned out that she did not do anything, the person did not even go to take the exam, " - says Mira Rosie. There is another category of Russians, which was told by UDGM representative. It was about those who hoped for the Constitutional Court and believed that there would be no deportations in fact.
Now these citizens will lose their residence permit and will have to move back to their homeland. "These people will be able to try to obtain permission without weakening-like any other citizen of Russia, not an ancient resident of Latvia," Mira Rosie continued. By the beginning of September, the citizens of the Russian Federation living in Latvia had to prove the knowledge of Latvian through the exam. To date, about 25,000 Russians come under the new law.
14 thousand of them have submitted documents for the status of a permanent resident of Latvia, about 1000 have applied for a residence permit, and 6,700 more are going to take the exam. This week, the local Seimas extended the term and predicted a two -year transition period, but this will only apply to those citizens who at least tried to pass the language exam. All others are deported. Citizens who have reached the age of 75 will be released from the Latin exam.